Has anyone kept the 6550 regulator tube past 2K hours in a ARC REF6?


Have a REF6 and approaching 2K hours. Does anyone know if you can the 6550 regulator tube until it fails? If it fails what happens? Can it last longer than 2K hours?

Thanks,

-Jim

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Showing 1 response by nosualc

From the ARC REF 6SE manual:

The 6H30 tubes in the Reference 6 should have an expected life of approximately 4,000 hours, while the 6550WE tube in the power supply should have a life expectancy of approximately 2,000 hours.

That said, I demo'ed a REF 6SE with 5000+ hours on its tubes and it sounded marvelous. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this, YMMV.