Burn in amp

[xecluded]

I just put up another clementine 1626 amp and just wondering if i can plug the amp in (without tubes) and leave it on for a couple weeks to "burn in" the amp. Will this cause any damaged to anything. Thanks

[nyazzip]

yes: you will damage the environment by wasting electricity, thus creating unnecessary demand for coal, nuclear, hydo, or wind power. and yes, wind and hydro power are not 100% "green".

[Geek]

How are the voltages on the caps sans tubes? You may get fireworks

[20to20]

I just put up another clementine 1626 amp and just wondering if i can plug the amp in (without tubes) and leave it on for a couple weeks to "burn in" the amp. Will this cause any damaged to anything. Thanks

Not necessary. Play it with music. Electronics normally degrade with usage. Who's to say your resistors won't drift from the original value to something less optimal? How will you know if any component changes negatively? If the issue is new capacitors, just play it. Nichicon's technical publications say it takes 30 minutes to reform a cap stored for years.

[Geek]

Nichicon, United Chemicon, Panasonic, Rubycon (genuine) and Elna - trusted names in electrolytic capacitors.

I have scavenged HV caps from compy PSU's branded "Lucky" .... yeah, lucky they worked!

[xecluded]

I get the idea, heheheh. Will not do such thing Thanks.

[EWBrown]

If you don't want to hear music playing 24/7 during burn-in just use an 8 ohm (6 to 10 ohms is OK) 2-3W "dummy load" resistor across each speaker output.

Without the tubes, there is no actual "burn-in" just running the electrolytics at max voltage with little current draw (an mA or two through the bleeder resistor would be all).

Depending on the interstage coupling caps, and output transformers, the "burn-in" may have little effect, or it could be quite notceable.

HTH

/ed B

[xecluded]

Thanks for the explanation. I understand it much better now.. Very cool.