Broke my Triton

[CGabriel]

Originally Posted by BlueFox

Caelin,

I saw your message, but am unable to reply since I am not a subscriber. I emailed CS on Saturday, but realize I will not get a response until Monday. Once I get the return authorization I will send it in. Hopefully, it is something minor causing the buzzing. The Hydra AV is doing a great job standing in for the Triton.

Bud

Ok no worries mate. We'll take care of it.

cg

[kngale1]

BTW, I would not run the PASS X600.5s through the Triton

Why? It's advertised as non current limiting so SHOULD work with any amp. Right??

[GaryProtein]

One rule I like to follow:

Any device run to its full potential will break.

[kngale1]

Any device run to its full potential will break.

How do you determine the potential of a component?

[BlueFox]

Anything electronic can break. That is the nature of electronics. I made arrangements today to ship it back to Shunyata for repair, so it will be interesting to see what they find. As I mentioned in a later post, it still works, except now has a buzz when both amps are on.

With my luck it will be something loose that gets jarred into place during transit, and it will work fine for them. Then get jarred loose on the way back.

[GaryProtein]

Originally Posted by kngale1

How do you determine the potential of a component?

You push it for more and more until it breaks.

The idea is to have someone ELSE find out what that point is, Then YOU stay shy of it.

[kngale1]

You push it for more and more until it breaks.

The idea is to have someone ELSE find out what that point is, Then YOU stay shy of it.

How can use BlueFox experience in breaking the Triton to your advantage?? You make NO sense.

[GaryProtein]

Originally Posted by kngale1

How can use BlueFox experience in breaking the Triton to your advantage?? You make NO sense.

Someone breaking their Triton isn't to my advantage at all. It IS to another Triton owner's advantage who now may have numerical information not to push it so hard. For example, he may have had a sound pressure meter reading a specified distance from the drivers or he may know how many watts his amplifiers were putting out. Other people would then know that is too much.

The "you push it until it breaks" is analogous to the machinists rule, "the optimal screw torque is one quarter turn before it strips," which IS how an optimal screw torque and pre-load is determined. It's the same for a piece of rope or chain when you want to know what it will support. You have to pull on it until it breaks, then you figure in a percentage safety factor for actual use. Most mechanical and electrical specifications are determined that way.

Someone else finds the torque where the screw strips and breaks (hopefully in a test piece), then you know the optimal torque is a percentage less than that. That IS how you find the maximum potential of a device. You have to break it. Then you push it less in actual use. Unfortunately, BlueFox's Triton became the test piece.

[rlw3]

I am very interested in reading about what exactly broke. I thought because shunyata conditioners are passive(?) they could not break or it would be next to impossible to do. My ignorant super lotto bet is that something physically broke off.

[steve ringler]

Agree.