On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:46:44 GMT, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

I once made an amplifier very unhappy by plugging it inadvertently to
a dimmer-controlled circuit on stage. Is it possible that, as it
couldn't have the volts, it tried to suck the amps instead? Anyway,
it got very hot and let smoke out.

Much more likely that it didn't like the chopped up "area under the curve"
waveform that the dimmer was giving it, I would have thought ...

Could be. Funny thing was, it worked OK. No hum or noise. I didn't
know anything was wrong until I smelt the hot. Rather a coincidence
if it just picked that day to fail. Something was being stressed by
the under-voltage (or maybe the supply waveform)