On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 21:19 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:06:02PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
The same here, but I only own one. I'm pissed
off about the XLR sockets
and my ADA80000 gets boiling hot. It's not mounted to a rack. It's on a
shelf and there put on a holder, so there's headroom above and below the
ADA.
Keep it there with an ice bag on it, or given the current European
meteo, just put it outside. I once saw 4 ADA8000s built into a 4U
portable rack producing fumes and a funny smell before dropping into
mortal silence, the four of them almost at the same time. Wasn't really
funny because renting the anechoic room where that happened was more
expensive than all of them together.
I know one audio engineer who died of a smoke intoxication, by less
smoke from a car radio's cable. He thought that the little bit of smoke
was harmless and go to late to the hospital. Perhaps we all just had
good luck. Just because of a little bit smoke, I never went to a
hospital. I never ever would mount my ADA to a rack. Yes, outside it's
cold, but unfortunately it's also moist and (no joke) fine dust from the
street already is an issue inside my flat.
So it's not off-topic, the ADA can get very hot and we should be
careful, turn it off, when we leave the room to take a rest.