starting equiment that ic cold from being shipped


Is it a real thing that you court problems if you turn on an ice cold amplifier or pre-amp without waiting 24 hours for temperature to rise.  I have long awaited Krell FPB and KCT shipping tomorrow,  It's single digits in the Midwet.  Should I wait a full 24 hours for the equipment to warm inside before introducing any electricity into the components?

bossa

Showing 3 responses by holmz

The cold inside surface is only exposed to a sealed area that is filled typically with argon gas to reduce re-radiation but it is also dry so there is no moisture ( water vapor) to condense on that surface (the inside surface of the outer pane of glass).

Technically it is more like convection or maybe conduction?

One can imagine the old video game Pong, and the pong balls carry the heat from one side to the other like a pack mule.
The argon pong balls are slow and carry heat from one side to the other in each bounce.
The helium pong balls move faster so we get more bounces per minute.
So if each load of heat the heat on the mule is the same, we simply get more loads carried over time with helium pong balls than with the argon ones.

 

The fellows talking about garbage bags amd not opening the box, sort of doesn’t make sense to me, as I am used to seeing the devices wrapped in a bag inside of the box with a little bag of magic desiccant crystals.
If it is one of those similar deals here, then just keep that bag sealed.

The box and Styrofoam shipping protection, only insulates it to delay the warming.

I would open them up and let them acclimate for 3+ days (mainly because of moisture).

My frost knee jerk at the title was just give em hell.

But then thought about moisture. So I agree with with @dekay (and the others to wait)

But if it is sparks off the sock static low humidity then it shouldn’t matter.

 

@feldmen4 Thanks for the gentlemanly apology Matt, but I took no (zero) offence.
And your expertise in the field is seeming more helpful than not..

 

@bossa

"My frost knee jerk..." I guess auto correct is warning me to wait

I was thinking condensation, so it is either auto-correct…
or
Maybe I pictured it being so cold that the condensation frosted up like a very cold drink?


If it was an auto-correct, then it must be the latest release of the auto-correct s/w, as it got it exactly right.