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POWER UP!
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The power switch is located on the left rear of the amp. It will take approximately 30
seconds for the tubes to warm up after you turn on the switch. You can watch this
happen by looking at the tubes because they will begin to glow
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As a general rule is it always best to have speakers hooked up to the amp whenever it
is on. If you have a volume control and IF you have it turned all the way down, it is OK
to have the amplifier on without speakers connected for brief periods of time. Having
NO speakers connected and the volume control all the way up with music playing can
damage the output transformers. This is common for all tube amps except that MOST
will absolutely fail if this is done and so far no Decware amp ever has but why tempt
fate?
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SHORTING SPEAKER WIRES!
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When your tube amp is on and you want to unhook your speaker wires without turning
the amplifier off, it is an acceptable practice to SHORT the speaker wires TOGETHER.
Yes, it's true, this protects the output transformers from operating without a load. They
can handle a dead short ALL DAY LONG without issue. This is JUST THE OPPOSITE
of many solid state amplifiers, which as you may know, will blow up instantly if you
short the speaker wires together, even for just a split second.
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Decware High Fidelity Engineering Co., East Peoria IL, USA www.decware.com
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