Amp gets pretty hot

[rapfohl09]

So I finally started playing in a group. It's my universities jazz band, and it is pretty exciting for actually start to read music and play along with other people. This thread is mostly for my own assurance, because I'm sure that it is fine, but the amp that I'm playing with is a Epiphone valve junior. Being all tube and on for the enitre 1.5 hour practice it gets pretty warm. This is ok right? I can't imagine that it is not, but I haven't ever had it on for such extended periods of time before. Thanks guys.

 

[Eric Banjitar]

It should be warm.  Easy to touch and hold the frame of. Some of the metal vent parts may get slightly hotter than that. It should not be HOT.

 

[mayfly]

If the plates in the power tube (there is just one on that amp I believe) are not glowing cherry red, and if there is no part of the amp that you can touch that will burn you, it's probably ok.  I believe that's a single ended amp.  It's gonna get warm.

 

[Tonar8352]

This is when you know it has gotten to hot, up to this point it should be fine.  :laughing7: :laughing7:
Johnny was smoking that night.  :guitaristgif:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXi0o5RiZg8[/youtube]

 

[jackthehack]

Tragedy to see a Blackface Super Reverb go up in flames like that... 

 

[mayfly]

Don't think it was a super - the power tubes were on the wrong side of the chassis.  and there were too many of them.

 

[rapfohl09]

Yeah I wouldn't classify it as HOT, I mean I could put my hand on it and hold it there indeffinately. Just warm.

Thanks guys.

 

[Tonar8352]

Johnny uses a Music Man HD-130 4x10. 

 

[Cagey]

Don't think it was a super - the power tubes were on the wrong side of the chassis.  and there were too many of them.

How can you have too many power tubes? <grin>

But, you're right - it's not a super. It is as Tonar pointed out, a Music Man HD-130.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Don't think it was a super - the power tubes were on the wrong side of the chassis.  and there were too many of them.

How can you have too many power tubes? <grin>

But, you're right - it's not a super. It is as Tonar pointed out, a Music Man HD-130.

Have you ever tried to move an old Ampeg SVT head?  Good lord those things are anchors.  Excellent sounding anchors, but still...
Patrick

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, I'm familiar. Used to know a guy who used one. The head was a nightmare itself, but the speaker cabinet was like moving a piano. I don't even remember what was in it, just that it was heavier than sin. Myself, I used to own an Ampeg VT-22 that I put a couple EVM-12Ls in. I swear, that thing weighed 9,726 lbs., give or take a ton. Guys would go to pick it up, and wonder if it was bolted to the floor. And loud? Holy Dessi Bells, Batman! Both of those units were literally painful to stand in front of it if you had them cranked. Hell of it was, they still didn't sound good there. It was just loud. Real loud. Flight deck loud. Things had headroom in the bank.