Normal for amps to have an odor???

[jnralp00 10+ year member]

Do they use glue on them during manufacturing now that slowly burns off or something? I have a BXi2006 that doesn't get hot at all to the touch, but it has like a burning odor that comes from it. I never really played it long enough to tell if it would go away. Just wondering. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

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[denali804 10+ year member]

Usually new amps have a smell of components heating up for the first few times and sometimes its the smell of the paint heating up.

 

[jnralp00 10+ year member]

It plays fine and all, doesn't even get warm. Just smells.

 

[jonnybusa 10+ year member]

Do they use glue on them during manufacturing now that slowly burns off or something? I have a BXi2006 that doesn't get hot at all to the touch, but it has like a burning odor that comes from it. I never really played it long enough to tell if it would go away. Just wondering. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

yea...thats normal...I have the same one, and it did it for a while @ first.

I will say, though, if you run it too hard, or start clipping it, the smell will come back and get worse, so if you smell it alot, check that.,

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

Probably some sort of urethane or silicone on the power supply transformers, or various inductors burning off, or heating up and putting off an odor. I wouldn't recommend breathing heavy concentrations of it, roll down the window, let it air out. Just for the sake of your health.

Chris