Home Tube DIY Asylum

Do It Yourself (DIY) paradise for tube and SET project builders.

[ Follow Ups ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Tube DIY Asylum ]
[ Alert Moderator ] [ Edit ] [ Delete ]

Re: Faster warm up tips

64.253.163.66

If it takes 8 hours to sound its best, I'm guessing it isn't the tubes, which should stabilize much sooner. I'm guessing it's a capacitor or, less likely, a resistor. The tubes should stabilize in an hour or less.

The other person's advice about using a variac and half power I don't like. If it takes 8 hours to stabilize on full power, I don't think half power is going to do you much good. And then there's the question of only applying half bias to the tubes. I would only do this if you engineer the bias to be full even when the B+ is on stand by, which is probably impractical.

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Kimber Kable  

Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
You can not post to an archived thread.

[ Top Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]