Autobiasing tube amp failure


The smell of electronic burning alerted my wife and I. I turned the amp off and removed the power chord. I opened the casing and couldn’t see anything wrong. But there was definitely a strong burnt electronic smell. Later investigation showed that one of tubes had gone way out of bias and caused one of the resistors to be overloaded. 

My question is how can this be prevented in future? Autobias means no way of reviewing the tube settings and performance.

The tubes and amp are less than 150 hours into their life. 
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Showing 1 response by audioman58

For Tube Amplifiers  Auto bias No Good Ever , for it adds extra circuitry and resistors. It average each channel .
Manual bias far better  you adjust  each tube individually 
And when a tube does go, just review  the new tube,  recheck others and done .it takes may be s minute per tube some compsnies  still want you to use a meter way out dated.,  I had my own Simpson meters added and switch per channel  ,seperste volt meter is primitive and s pain in the ass.