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Age of Little Dot MkIII - Is 500 hours "old"?

post #1 of 6
12/29/10 at 4:26pm
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I'm just asking this question because I literally don't have a clue whether this is, say, equivalent to 100,000 miles on a car or whether it's negligible.  Should I expect an amp with these hours on the clock to last, or should I keep looking?

 

Many thanks for helping the newb!

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post #2 of 6
12/29/10 at 4:32pm

Definitely 100K miles, it needs a tune-up, transmission fluid change, new timing belt, 4 set of tires, and a brake job. ksc75smile.gif

 

But seriously, your tubes should last much longer than 500 hours, at least 2000 hours if not more.

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post #3 of 6
12/29/10 at 4:53pm
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Thanks, but to be honest (and perhaps I should have said) I was thinking more of the amp itself than the tubes.. 

 

But on that subject, I never knew tubes could last 2000 hours - that's continuous running for nearly three months!  I'd assumed they were flakier than that.. 

 

But I guess that must mean 500 hours on an amp is really nothing to worry about.

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post #4 of 6
12/29/10 at 4:58pm

Yup, the stuff inside like resistors, capacitors, diodes,... should last way longer than the tubes. BUT they can fail early too. I wouldn't worry about it.

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post #5 of 6
1/1/11 at 1:52am

My Little-Dot II+ has seen almost daily usage since I got it in the summer of 2006 and is still going strong.  I have yet to have a single tube fail due to age.

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post #6 of 6
1/1/11 at 11:07am

do the stock tubes of the LD MK3 last?

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