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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Eskam" data-source="post: 89407" data-attributes="member: 2124">Re: PSA: Blow it out yer amps!Heck yes.&nbsp; It&#039;s widely understood/experienced in the computer tech circles (google is your friend).Take half a second to stick something in the fan (coffee stirrers work great, dry ones even better) to keep it from freewheeling.&nbsp; The bearing in these things are pretty delicate.&nbsp; And while it may not fail right off the bat, or look visibly damaged, I guarantee you it&#039;s life will be severally shortened.&nbsp; Even more fun - it will probably decide to die on you when being stressed.&nbsp; Say from a really heavy and jamming set when the amp has it pumped up to max revs.&nbsp; Is an amp cutting out due to thermal overload during the heaviest part of the show considered bad form?&nbsp; I just realized my crown amps have one fan only on the rear at least.&nbsp; If they do have a front fan is it enough to carry the amp under load?&nbsp; I now will be opening them to blow them out and also explore their redundancy too.Then again I&#039;m some faceless nobody on the Internet.&nbsp; Why spend half a second exercising due diligence and logic when nothing will probably happen anyway because anecdotally it hasn&#039;t happened to anyone you know, right?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric Eskam, post: 89407, member: 2124"] Re: PSA: Blow it out yer amps! Heck yes. It's widely understood/experienced in the computer tech circles (google is your friend). Take half a second to stick something in the fan (coffee stirrers work great, dry ones even better) to keep it from freewheeling. The bearing in these things are pretty delicate. And while it may not fail right off the bat, or look visibly damaged, I guarantee you it's life will be severally shortened. Even more fun - it will probably decide to die on you when being stressed. Say from a really heavy and jamming set when the amp has it pumped up to max revs. Is an amp cutting out due to thermal overload during the heaviest part of the show considered bad form? I just realized my crown amps have one fan only on the rear at least. If they do have a front fan is it enough to carry the amp under load? I now will be opening them to blow them out and also explore their redundancy too. Then again I'm some faceless nobody on the Internet. Why spend half a second exercising due diligence and logic when nothing will probably happen anyway because anecdotally it hasn't happened to anyone you know, right? [/QUOTE]

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