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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
In practice? I like to leave it a few minutes, enough time to pack the guitar away and roll up a few leads. This ensures that everything else has had a chance to cool down somewhat and that the singer is out of the way and at the bar.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
It will actually cool down faster if you just turn it straight off.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
But - bear with me, this is about to get technical - it *is* a good idea to always put an amp on standby for a short time when you power up, if like yours, it has a solid-state rectifier. This is not to protect the valves, but the filter caps - a solid-state rectifier doesn't need time to warm up, so the full high voltage will be applied to the caps when the valves are still cold and not conducting, and you will stress the caps much more than if the valves are drawing current, which reduces the voltage.
An occasional fault on the Hotrods is the last filter cap failing - when I first noticed it as a recurring fault I was puzzled as to why, since it's the one that has the lowest voltage on it, but (I think it was jpfamps who pointed this out) caps have a 'memory' to some extent, so if this cap gets used to operating at the lower voltage and then you turn on without using the standby and hit it with a much higher voltage, it can then fail. It's still fairly rare, but if you can avoid it by always keeping the amp on standby for at least thirty seconds when you power up, it's better to.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Well that’s how I’ve ended up doing it anyway, more in the interests of getting the most vulnerable stuff safely tucked away first than out of any consideration of the amp cooling down but it works anyway...
Thanks
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein