Cooling fan for tube amp?
Or one of these. Works great. |
I use an Airplate T7 cabinet cooling fan. This is a pair of fans which operate by a control which selects speeds, both manually and automatically by a setting the desired temp. I use mine in open space mounted behind the amp in an open cabinet. At low speed it is very hard to hear with nothing else running. Mine is set up to pull air across the amps. (two amps - two sets of fans.) Works great! Sold by AC Infinity. |
What amp? If it needed a fan, they would have built one in, or stated so in the literature/specs. Enclosed, trapped heat, yes, but I would never add a fan if I could re-arrange for an 'open air' arrangement. My Cayin A88T has 4 KT88's, 2 6sn7, 2 6sl7. All of it's components are designed to operate without a fan, it's tube spacing determined by testing. It has no bottom vents, it's own feet for designed bottom clearance, a ventilated tube cover (I leave it off). It is on the top in open air, no trapped heat, no fan needed. |
Right. The amp itself needs no cooling fan. Plenty of air flow even with a shelf above it. Which that, if anything, is what could use the fan. The shelf above it. Even then only the bottom of the shelf. Heat dissipates from the shelf, air flows around it all, and the component above just isn't going to get all that much hotter anyway. But we live in a world where audiophiles set their system cooling thingamajigs to 77 degrees. I don't have AC, my whole house doesn't stay that cool in summer. My tube amp is just fine. Now me, I could use a fan! |
