First off, power strips can really mess up the sound, especially if they have cheap surge suppressors in them, i.e. MOV's. I would avoid them. That, however, has nothing to do with your tubes arcing. Sometimes because of the circuit topology, pairs of output tubes fail. Depending on the way the tube arced, increased current draw occurs in the tubes mate and that tube fails as well. Not at all uncommon. How many hours do you have on your output tubes? That may determine if the whole set should be replaced. Since all the output tubes were installed at the same time, they all have the same amount of hours on them. Replacing output tubes in ones and twos is generally not a good idea.
MC275 KT88 tubes blowing left and right
I got 2 MC275 demo model (MKV) with all new tubes. Using them in Mono.
After running for 2 weeks without any problems, suddenly one of them is malfunctioning - 2 KT88 tubes got blown within 24 hours. The first one blown out is the 3rd from the left and the the 2nd one blown out is 4th from the left.
I got replacement from the dealer (my MC275 dealer is just 2 miles away form my home). But wondering why is this happening.
Any pointers (apart from faulty tubes) ? Is it because of -
1) The problem in jumper cable (may be short circuit) I'm using for connecting the speaker posts to run the amp in mono parallel ?
2) Amp problem
3) Problem in power supply ? I'm using a stripper from the wall socket. In the stripper I'm connecting power cord of both the MC275s
4) Anything else ?
Interestingly, after the 2nd tube got blown out (it is not glowing), the amplifier is still working and singing ? How could that be possible ?
Regards,
Sourav
After running for 2 weeks without any problems, suddenly one of them is malfunctioning - 2 KT88 tubes got blown within 24 hours. The first one blown out is the 3rd from the left and the the 2nd one blown out is 4th from the left.
I got replacement from the dealer (my MC275 dealer is just 2 miles away form my home). But wondering why is this happening.
Any pointers (apart from faulty tubes) ? Is it because of -
1) The problem in jumper cable (may be short circuit) I'm using for connecting the speaker posts to run the amp in mono parallel ?
2) Amp problem
3) Problem in power supply ? I'm using a stripper from the wall socket. In the stripper I'm connecting power cord of both the MC275s
4) Anything else ?
Interestingly, after the 2nd tube got blown out (it is not glowing), the amplifier is still working and singing ? How could that be possible ?
Regards,
Sourav