Component burn in

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Offline aragorn723

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on: September 07, 2015, 04:18:44 AM
Hi,

A little ago, I installed black gate caps to replace the 150 uf ones in the Quickie.  They have about 100 hours on them, is there a way to tell if they are fully burned in?

Dave


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Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 04:45:17 AM
My experience with BG caps in the audio path is that they sound good to begin with and improve over the next three weeks of continuous use.  Continuous use in a Quickie might be hard to achieve.  I was using them in a CD/SACD player.


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Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 06:34:50 AM
Black Gates are a pain to break in. I'd say minimum 200 hrs to start sounding decent. Maybe twice that to soumd really good.

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Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 07:23:45 AM
Thanks for the replies.  It does seem like a long time to burn them in, maybe i'll hook up a cdp to the Quickie to do the burn-in (been using my laptop hooked up to a dac).  The only thing is, since the Quickie is battery powered, if it dies when i'm not around, it's not burning in the caps anymore.  Is there a better way to do this?  Thanks,

Dave
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Reply #4 on: September 08, 2015, 04:00:06 PM
Sounds like it's time for an elaborate test rack, with equipment to monitor the 3 different voltages and send me email alerts when they drop too low  8)


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