[turnovertherecord]

Was thinking of idle power needed with the amp and pre amp plugged in

[Chicago]

see attached for the amp and Bryston's web site for pre-amp.

http://bryston.com/PDF/Manuals/300006[3B4B].pdf

Mike

[srb]

170W for the 4BSST2.  The BP-26 preamp manual does not give the power consumption specs, but says to check the label attached to the bottom cover.  However, I suspect that it may only give maximum power consumption, not idle consumption.

(Because many of the Bryston hyperlinks to technical documents include square brackets, they are not recognized properly by this forum software (and perhaps other forum software) and won't work when inserted into a post.)

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Steve

[won ton on]

I was wondering that myself ,as i leave the pre amp on and the amp off

[Wim J]

I connected the mute trigger output of my BP26/MPS2 to the trigger input of my 3BSST². So when I mute the preamp the power amp turn off. In this way I avoid the idling power consumption of the amp itself. But my preamp stays on and keeps it temperature.
If been thinking to connect a motion sensor to the trigger input of the poweramp So it would power down when no motion is detected for for example 4 hours,...