Old Building and my Beloved Laney

[Dr.Mavashi]

Ok, here it I've move to an older building(build in 1916 I think) time dely fuses go out if I ran microwave and toaster at the same time :banghead:, but that happens on the "kitchen side of the circuit board." I ran my Laney AOR 50 watt with pre-amp cranked all the way up, treble/bass/mids pulled and MV at no higher than 3, with LiteMass attunuating most of the lows, and lettting the mids go a bit, am in any danger of frying my Beloved Laney????

 

[brit84]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

if the fuses work thats one good thing, but id go and buy a good power bar with circuit breaker in it just to be safe.

 

[Dr.Mavashi]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

if the fuses work thats one good thing, but id go and buy a good power bar with circuit breaker in it just to be safe.

You mean the surge protector right? what do you mean if the fuses work? I thought that if the amp works than the fuses work, they have not blown on since i've got it ...

 

[muttonchopsrule]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

i think Brit is talking about the circuit breakers in your building. it's a good thing that they work, so that they'll cut power to the circuit that you're plugged into if too much current is being yanked out of the wall. however, given the age of the building, buying a power strip with it's own built-in circuit breaker would be an easy way to make sure that your amp will be fine.

as long as the laney's not on the same circuit as your kitchen appliances, it'll probably be just fine. i wouldn't worry about it personally.

 

[BG00]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

A power conditioner would do you a world of good if you don't have one. Not only will it protect your amp, but it'll eliminate a bunch of background noise from such appliances and lights in an old building. Furman makes the best ones but a cheap one will do just fine as well.

 

[Bludave]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

Plug the amp into a surge protected power strip and you should be fine.

 

[Dr.Mavashi]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

Plug the amp into a surge protected power strip and you should be fine.

What's distinguished Komet owner, just did that and loving it !!!! have not played it for over a month. The power tubes glow red, not good right ???

 

[Rich_S]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

A power conditioner strip is a waste of money for a tube amp. The amp is more durable than the protective devices in the strip. Most cheap power strips do not filter noise, so no benefit there either.

When the big one comes, and all the computers and wide-screen TV's have been destroyed by the EMP from nuclear blasts, the only things left working will be roaches and tube amps. We'll all have to get by without our pedals boards, though.

Also, this has nothing to do with the fuses in your old building. Fuses (or circuit breakers) are there to prevent your appliances from hurting the building, not the other way around. Microwaves draw a lot of current, more than they imagined would be needed when the building was constructed. When your modern conveneinces pull more current than the wiring was designed to handle, the fuse blows to shut them off. Otherwise, the wiring in the walls would overheat and light the building on fire, and THAT would hurt your AOR.

Your amp draws what - about 2 or 3 amps at full tilt? That's not problem for even an old 10- or 15-amp fused circuit, provided it's not already running the refrigerator, microwave, toaster, washing machine, and George Foreman grill.

 

[Dr.Mavashi]

Re: Old Building and my Beloved Laney

When the big one comes, and all the computers and wide-screen TV's have been destroyed by the EMP from nuclear blasts, the only things left working will be roaches and tube amps.

Posts like these make wanna jump on the table, squat gorilla style, bang my fists on the chest, and scream in a very premordial baritone, "TUBES !!!!!!!!"
Thanks bro, that sounds great. I am picking up radio just a bit though .... kind of annoying, but with limited funds I still wanna solve a "reverb" issue before getting a furhman conditioner to get rid of "radio kaka." Thanks mate.