Racerxrated
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I’ve thought about buying 6 ARS caps and saving the originals….maybe I can squeeze out another 2% of awesome out of it; but the flip side is what if it takes away 2%…
Powering up old amps
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TheGreatGreen
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I've heard the way to power on amps that haven't been touched in years is to:
1. remove the tubes
2. plug amp into a variac and set it to very low voltage
3. power the amp on and every 5 minutes, increase the voltage by 5 or 10 volts until it's up to standard
This will allow your caps to reform slowly enough as to not burn out due to getting the full wall voltage all at once.
1. remove the tubes
2. plug amp into a variac and set it to very low voltage
3. power the amp on and every 5 minutes, increase the voltage by 5 or 10 volts until it's up to standard
This will allow your caps to reform slowly enough as to not burn out due to getting the full wall voltage all at once.