V:35 burning through tubes too quickly

[RobZilla]

My V:35 is about a year old. It's currently cooking it's second set of tubes!?!?

(I never had this kind of issue, or ANY issue, with my early 90's Recto... which I've had since it was new.)

I do often use my V:35 Direct with the CabClone and the Speaker Off. I was initially running it on 10W most of the time. Now I'm using my clean channel of 35W and gain channel on 25W.

I've read the manual end to end and I can't find anything I'm doing wrong.

 

[Nicklotsaguitars]

EL84's do run hotter than most valves. Are the valves completely failing?

 

[domct203]

My V:35 is about a year old. It's currently cooking it's second set of tubes!?!?

(I never had this kind of issue, or ANY issue, with my early 90's Recto... which I've had since it was new.)

I do often use my V:35 Direct with the CabClone and the Speaker Off. I was initially running it on 10W most of the time. Now I'm using my clean channel of 35W and gain channel on 25W.

I've read the manual end to end and I can't find anything I'm doing wrong.

How high are you running your channel masters/output?

As mentioned, EL-84's are usually run hot to start with, so if you are pushing them with a lot of output, they are going to wear out even quicker.

Also, how many hours of operation are we talking about? If you play the amp 2-3 hours every day, you will go through power tubes quicker than someone who only runs the amp 2-3 hours per week.

Dom

 

[Dodgion556]

How are the tubes failing? What caused you to change the entire set? We need a little more info in order to help.