[Vintage-Audio] Tube amps with no load

Sun Mar 2 20:21:00 2003

You remove the rectifier tube OM - 	

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From: Robert  J.  McKee <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Tube amps with no load
Date: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:09 PM

Can you explain what good it does to bring it up slowly
when you have a tube rectifier?  I can understand it if
the rectification is solid state so you are truly bringing
it up slowly... reforming the power supply capacitors.
It would seem that the way to reform them would be to
use a variable DC supply to do the reforming.
Looking for the pros and cons of each.
Bob McKee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Tube amps with no load

> The real issue, may be in powering up an old amplifier that
has sat idle for
> several or more years. Unless it is brought up slowly on a
Variac to allow the
> capacitors to reform, Kapow! "Sold as is, a non-smoker, so
not sure where that
> slight smell of smoke is coming from."
>
> DBF
>
>
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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Tube amps with no load
> Date: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:55 AM
>
> No problem at all....
>
> It's only when there's an audio signal going through the amp
that there's
> a problem....
>
> Don't forget a transformer is an AC device.  The load is
only reflected
> back to the tube during an AC excursion.  There's no problem
or
> refelction with no AC, when the amplifier is at idle.
>
> Ed K1ZOK
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:28:03 -0600 "Steven K. Wenger"
<[email protected]>
> writes:
> > Is it just me, or does anyone else cringe when someone on
eBay writes
> > the amp's tubes light up but I have no way of testing it?
There is a
> > Fisher X200 amp on eBay right now. You can actually see
the amp's
> > line cord plugged into an extension cord, the tube's
filaments are
> > on, and no speakers are connected.
> >
> >
>
>
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