Marshall Amp Forum - View Single Post - which of both runn the amp to work less hard?

Wilder Amplification · 10-30-2009, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Reginald

yeah,I play in the I channel.
so,I thought it be bigger filter caps value = slow rise response....
smaller value = fast response
but electronically speaking...
a higher value is able to safeguard,to protect,to keep safe better the OT workings and the whole amp ....or it's the opposite?
a higher value should safeguard from transiet spikes,electrons lack,and other damaging things...
Into an italian Marshall forum people explained me about a too much smaller value is damaging and a too much big value is damaging too,because could interfere with the good workings of the solid-state rectifier ,risking to burn it.
So,on the one hand it not need put a too much smaller value,but in the other hand.....?....which/what/how many uFs may I put in ,as at maximum value?
1000uF? 5000?
I'd like to safeguard the OT and the whole amp as the most as possible,you know.
Are you sure a smaller filter caps value is more spongy,'chewy',slow rise response touch than bigger value?..or is it the opposite?
...but electronically speaking ,bigger value is more sure to safeguard the OT and the whole amp.....or not?

If you could take pictures of both the top and the bottom of the chassis this would help things. But smaller filter caps = more spongy and bigger filter caps = less spongy. There is in fact a limit to going either way of course, electrically speaking.