Cicerosecundus

Peter is adamant about not putting the Bendix into his equipment. He says that it will eventually burn out the power transformer as it is only built to accept the 6x5 .5 amps current. The Bendix is more than double that current. He says that some transformers may last years under that load and then burn out and that some burn out fast. Definitely, that worries me. Cicerosecundus

Peter Qvrotrup (founder/Pres of ANUK) has today told me not to use the Bendix rectifier with any of his ANUK equipment as a substitute for a 6x5 rectifier. He said that the Bendix draws double the current than the 6x5 rectifiers that he uses and that the winding of the transformer that supports the filaments of the tubes used in his preamps and DACs cannot support that much draw without eventually burning out that particular winding. He said that he had has quite a few orders for mains transformer replacements due to that problem. I have a Bendix that I am itching to use in a AN DAC 4.1. Question: how long have you run the Bendix in your DAC Any transformer or other problems using the Bendix? Anyone else out there use the Bendix in place of a 6x5 in an AN DAC? Any maintenance problems as a result? Regards, George C. McKinnis