are Tube MPs *supposed* to catch on fire?

[zacanger]

Ouch. Same neighbor, after he blew up the Plexi, the guy who runs the studio gave him a Dual Rectifier. Just for fun.

 

[BRIEFCASEMANX]

they usually catch fire when i'm ripping a HUGE keyboard or horn solo!

 

[andycerrone]

You do know what you did and why it stopped working right? Well everything electrical runs on smoke, once you let the smoke out its gonna stop working and you will have one heck of a time getting the smoke back into the thing. At least that is my findings.

I think he's onto something..

 

[darrin_h2000]

Once after installing a new rectifier tube in my sunn200s the thing started smoking...a spider had crawled on the connections inside and fried itself...lol.

 

[MCI2424]

I smoked two of them but discovered later that I plugged in the wrong power adapter. Wrong voltage, I guess.

Yeah, sharp as a bowling ball......that's me.

Color Code the damn things. I got tired of finding which is which. Colored dots on the back of the unit and the supply wart does it just fine.