Am i hurting my amp?

[darknes40]

Hey guys I'm running a shuttle 6.0 in a rack with a wireless and a rack tuner. In behind my rack attached to it us a good quality power bar from home depot, the way I've had it set up is I leave everything turned on and just turn everything off by switching off the power-bar Instead of having to try to find the individual switches in the back of each part.

It occurred to me that maybe this might be hurting something, so the question to all you knowledgable people is should I not do this anymore?

 

[will33]

No, a power switch on an amp does the same thing as the switch on the power strip. That said, it's good practice, and a pet peeve of mine when people don't do it, and that's to have volumes turned all the way down before powering anything on or off. It at least keeps clicks and pops from hitting speakers, especially when switching on something going into an amp that's already on and turned up.

 

[nicoli]

I'm not an electrical engineer or anything, but I don't see how it would hurt it. That's pretty much the same thing as running a Furman power conditioner or something similar, and they're designed with this purpose in mind.

 

[B-string]

Yes you are hurting the switches feelings

 

[John Bigboote]

Believe it or not, I was told specifically by someone at Genz-Benz (... or perhaps I read a posting by someone at G-B?) that this is not recommended. It won't void your warranty or anything, but they discourage switching the amp on and off using an external switch.

Unhelpfully,

-jb

 

[B-string]

I think that was about avoiding the speaker pop at power down IIRC?

 

[zeroncali]

Unless something there has a hard drive I wouldnt worry about it. The reason you dont want to do this with your computer is it could corrupt your drive.

 

[BassmanPaul]

It's what I do.

 

[boing]

Be careful using surge protectors and power conditioners with power amps, and don't turn on and off all the units in the rack with the master poower switch. While it's ok with some products (specifically the PLX and the Shuttles) due to inrush current limiting management, other products do not have this feature and can destroy the master power switch on the strip since they do not (generally) contain inductive load switching protection. This is especially true of older "lead sled" style power supplies. The typical symptom is a power switch that won't turn off because the contacts got welded together from arc-over.

Emphasis added.

From here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/anyone-using-power-amp-shuttle-shuttle-pre-649598/

 

[B-string]

Ah clarification! The power strip/"conditioner's" master power switch could be damaged.

 

[agedhorse]

Ah clarification! The power strip/"conditioner's" master power switch could be damaged.

Yes, this is correct. No problem with the Shuttles or Streamliner though.