Radial headbone vt with a load?

[888guitars]

I have a tube amp switcher that says I can't use delay in the effects loop of the amps because the switcher is not a load switch. It says I can't have a signal in the amp after its switched.
So, what if I put a 100watt load resistor in parallel with the output of each amp before heading back to the switcher?

[olddawg]

The effects loop is between the preamp and power amp and therefore independent of the load. I think the reason they are giving you this instruction is because you might switch amps with a substantial output signal coming through the amp from the delay even after you stopped playing. Personally... I don't like hot switching loads on amplifiers at all. It's asking for trouble. I'm not sure what you think adding the resistors would do? I can tell you that anyone I know that hotswitched loads smoked their gear. Better to A/B/Y the inputs of two separate amps and speakers.

[888guitars]

I did a lot of research on this. Found no negative response to the way the radial switch uses relays instead of a resistive load to switch. I also heard of blown OT's on resistive switches.

I was going to add the resistor to become the load. So the signal would fizz out through the load after being switched.

Then I thought I would use my webber attenuators on the amps to have that load on the amp output.and be able to run the small amp at the volume I want.

[pdf64]

The manual says that VT has a load resistor switched in for the inactive amp; I suppose it will be rated just a watt or two http://www.tonebone.com/manual-headbone.pdf
If it's in warranty, maybe ask the manufacturer to mod it; if not, get it done, perhaps put it on a jack socket so that a suitable external dummy load can be connected to the VT.

[888guitars]

They can't mod it ( not enough room) they offered another product that does remote effects loop switching with the headbone. Bummer, trying to eliminate gear for the sake of tone I want but have to add another piece and slew of cables to get it done.