Amp on standby all night.

[Chryst Krispies]

Ok so I'm a fuckin idiot, as you guys know by now, but I left my amp on standby all fuggin night, and when I mean all night I mean like 14 hours.. So I was wondering if this is going to be bad for business if you know what I mean. This amp has been on three tours and it's going on another and it's my only head so it needs to be firing on all cylinders.

Halp plz?

 

[muckypup1]

What amp model is it? Most amps should be able to take being on for a couple of hours, like some people will practise for longer than 14 hours with an amp

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Five thousand one hundred and fifty.

 

[PhilR]

Have you tried turning it on and playing through it? No offense but this question is like a man in a glass house going online to find out what the weather is like. In any case, continual power is generally a lot less damaging to electrical equipment than being regularly switched on and off.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Have you tried turning it on and playing through it? No offense but this question is like a man in a glass house going online to find out what the weather is like. In any case, continual power is generally a lot less damaging to electrical equipment than being regularly switched on and off.

People in glass houses....sink ships.

 

[updog]

it's probably fucked

 

[muckypup1]

Is it working alright at the moment? And does it sound the same? Is there any crackling or stuff like that?

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Yeah it works fine, but I need this fuck to work on the road with no back up and I JUST got it back from my buddy doin three tours with it. I have no idea what kinda abuse went on so this was just icing on the beating cake.

 

[Trevoire520]

I don't think it should do any serious damage to be honest. Best way to find out is to play it for a while and see if everything's ok.

 

[slashvanyoung]

Okay here's the thing. Because it was on stand-by, your powertubes weren't under full juice. That's the whole point of standby, to have only small currents/voltages going through them. Just enough to get them on temperature.

And there's much much less strain on the preamp tubes.

So, theoretically, you should be fine.

But:

Some time ago, I've read that putting your amp on stand-by for very long hours can very well put strain on your tubes, because there are some physical/chemical reactions going on there with the tubes.

I think you will be fine. But best bet would be to just take another set of tubes on the road.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Okay here's the thing. Because it was on stand-by, your powertubes weren't under full juice. That's the whole point of standby, to have only small currents/voltages going through them. Just enough to get them on temperature.

And there's much much less strain on the preamp tubes.

So, theoretically, you should be fine.

But:

Some time ago, I've read that putting your amp on stand-by for very long hours can very well put strain on your tubes, because there are some physical/chemical reactions going on there with the tubes.

I think you will be fine. But best bet would be to just take another set of tubes on the road.

Okie.

That's pretty much what I wanted to hear.
Thaanks, for tolerating the nuub factor.

 

[MetalJonesy]

you'll be fine, jst try not to do it again, ive left one of my amps on all night by accident, was fine!

 

[slashvanyoung]

Yeah, what I was talking about is "cathode poisoning".

You should be fine, just don't do it again. I think I read somewhere that Mesa suggests to not put your amp on standby longer than 30 minutes to avoid this.

But again, you're probably fine.

 

[TravisW]

You pretty much just heated the filaments in the tubes for 14 hours. Of course, tube life will be reduced accordingly, but if you bring backup tubes, you should be alright.

 

[Metaltastic]

People in glass houses....sink ships.

Widsom

 

[BrettT]

You should be fine...just took a bit of life off of your tubes.

 

[Jind]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chryst Krispies
People in glass houses....sink ships.

Widsom

I thought it was "People in glass houses....should stop it or they will go blind" :Smug:

 

[SocialNumb]

I did this once. BE SCARED! 2 months later my amp blew a hole through my dinning room wall and set the kitchen on fire. I ended up living in the streets for 3 months and I had to be a gigolo for said time to feed my crack addiction that came from the shock.

True story.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Do I get nothing for the Boondock Saints reference?? hahaha

 

[Apsu]

I've done it (by accident) more than once, and have known others that have done it, with no ill effects besides reduced overall tube life, which itself is a rather long timeframe, so "how much" reduction is hard to measure anyway. Plus, if you happened to watch through that Mesa factory tour somebody posted recently, they burn-in every amp they build for 24 hours straight on full blast precisely to make the heaviest-duty use be in the factory prior to going out the door. If anything, fiddy's are equally built-like-trucks and should have similar burn-ins/failure modes. But don't take my word for it: Hot Cathode Failure Modes -- the gist of it is that ALL filament vacuum tubes slowly burn off their cathodes/filaments through use and that undervolting them (standby) for 12+ hours is probably about on par with full voltage for ~4 hours.