Amp on side?

I was wondering if it would be OK to put the amp on its side? I would attach four rubber sticky feet.

Thanks,
John Flegert

I'd toss that query past Outlaw support before I did it. Some concerns that come to mind are structural strength (there's a lot of weight in there that is designed to be supported from below, not from one side) and ventilation.

Thanks for the reply gonk. I asked support, and here is there response (for those who are interested):

.John

Ah, that's what I was afraid of. Those heat sinks are stout. Oh, well, it was worth asking...

hot air goes up, ventilation holes on top, humm!!!
but nevertheless interesting question.

Hmmm... Doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement for strutctural integrity....

I dunno about that - if you put a building on its side, there's a lot of equipment that would fall right out. .

Besides, I suspect that is a fairly conservative answer - if the amp sections fell the moment the amp turned on its side, they'd never survive shipping.

Regardless, any electonic component should be able to unconditionally survive simply setting it on it's side. More to the point, any electonic component I would buy would have to be sturdy enough to avoid damage from such a simple thing as being situated in a non-traditional mounting.

If the shipping company puts the box on its side (or *gasp* upside down!) are you SOL? I'm pretty sure that they are speaking in very long-terms there and in regards to the heat sink being able to do its job. Like SH said, if I can't set the thing on its side for a few minutes while I work on something then it's not a component that I'd like to have in my system to to reliability concerns. This probably applies to most any HT component as they tend to be engineered to sit in basically one position.

Clearly, tilting an amp onto its side temporarily (up to a few days) won't inflict damage, or else there would have been countless posts from people whose amps arrived DOA with loose amp sections.

So, we're good for at least a couple weeks before the power transformer falls off?

Two, maybe three... Plus or minus a year or five...