Beo virginity lost! - Beosystem warm in standby?

Hallo!

Ever since my childhood I've looked with admiration at those sleek shiny danes and two days ago i lost my Beo-virginity

I bought a Beosystem 4500 with a pair of Beovox Penta. Since I'm a total newbie to the products I have a few questions:

1. Will the Beomaster 4500 drive the Pentas well?

2. After a one hour of low level listening the amp got a bit warm. Not burning hot but still. Is this normal?

3. This morning i felt all the units (cd/amp/tape) when in standby (been in standby all night) and they were all a bitt warm in the back (AC area). Not at all hot but still not as cold as the rest of the unit. Is this ok?

4. After playing a tape the i could hear som kind of motor running even after i pressed stop and took the tape out. Had to turn of the system and then power up again for it to go away...

Thankful for any help i can get!

/Totte

It shouldn't get too hot at low level use. These older units do need a bit of TLC and I suspect some of the voltages will be out of spec. I've just checked all my units and they are all cold in standby. Mine are on the wall brackets so the heat can rise away easily. Are yours on a wall or on a horizontal surface?

The Pentas should be fine. Active ones even better as the amp won't have to work as hard in the BM4500.

When in standby, the motor of my Beocord 4500 runs constantly I think. I opened the lid of mine the other day when I was cleaning and the spindles were turning with no tape in.

Dave.

Welcome to BeoWorld!!

I have a BM4500 and BG4500CD I can check when I get home to compare standby temps for you. They should be a good benchmark as they are also 100% original.

The good news is, should you ever choose to upgrade your amplification for your PentaVox, you could use a dedicated 3rd party amplifier via Powerlink connection and DC trigger. I used to operate a similar setup with a Niles SI-275 amplifier.

Thanks for your answer!

Mine isn't wall mounted. So the warm-in-standby, is it serious? I just bought it from a semi-dealer-type. I told me it was "serviced", what ever that means... Any way I think i could return it and maybe switch to a Beocenter 9300 and BeoLab Penta...

Thanks again! :-)

 

Thanks! :-)

When i got home i put two termometers on my Bombaster when in standby. It differs 7 Celcius between the area above the transistors (i guess) and the other end of the amp! How bad is this?!  Should i try to return it? The tape and Cd isen't even close to getting this warm but I still think there's a small temp. difference between the left and the right side.

Tomorrow I'll try to run the system for an hour or two on normal levels while monitoring the termometers... 

Thanks once again! :-)

 

Doesn't seem overly warm to me.... 

I've just checked my 4500 system. Not warm in standby - not even 30 degrees C - only room temperature.. My Beocenter 9500 is a bit warmer in the trafo area - but not much... probably around 30 degrees, like yours.

However the Beogram CD4500 gets quite warm when it has been on for half an hour. That's probably because of some aging caps?
I think it requires some service before too long...

I have a Beomaster 6000 that gets very hot after playing only 20 min at moderate level. It definitely needs service.
I am not a technician, but from what I have read here on Beoworld, it has something to do with old electrolytic caps and some idle current adjustment. Correct me, if I'm wrong.

Hi Again! 

Now I'be checked the "fever" during playback. After running the system at modest levels (vol 54-58) for 4 hours the temp of amp and cd maxed at ca 41C.

is that ok you think?