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Originally Posted by Brent Hutto
I accidentally left my 8W 1x12 combo amp (single-ended 6L6GC) on standby instead of turning it off for about 10 hours last night. This amp uses the switch on the center tap of the power transformer standby design.
Does that do more wear-and-tear, less wear-and-tear or about the same as leaving it all the way on, including the high voltage, for the same length of time? It has NOS rectifier and output tubes so it's no big deal burning through ten hours of an expected service life that's probably in the thousands of hours. I just hope having filament and no HV isn't an extra-bad way for a tube to spend time. It is an indirectly-heated Bendix rectifier if that matters..
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Back near the end of the Tube TV set, they used to achieve the instant on effect by leaving all of the tube filaments on 24/7. ( basically in standby mode)
I can remember going on 2 week vacations and coming home and having the TV smelling of heat and vaporized dust.
I left my Seymour Duncan on 8 days once, melted a module casing on a pre-amp module but still worked great with no issues.