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echo: pro_audio
to: TERRY SMITH
from: LASZLO SOKOLAI
date: 1995-12-24 22:22:00
subject: amp headroom

TS > TS > LS> watts.  A year ago i measured 2925 watts out of it
TS > TS > LS> total very near to clipping, and recently i replaced
TS > TS > With 120 VAC mains at about 40 A?  Other than the fact
TS > LS> construction types.  This amplifier uses dual
TS > LS> complementary rails instead of single complementary
TS > LS> rails like chaper amps do.  This makes sustained
TS > LS> power output and current output at 25 to 100 percent
TS > LS> more than the current draw.  this amplifier used to
TS > That's done to improve idling and low level operating
TS > efficiency certainly, especially to decrease cooling
TS > demands.  It doesn't decrease power input requirements to
TS > sustain full output, however.
TS > LS> have 1 14 guage line cord.  now with this upgrade it
TS > LS> had 2 12 guage line cords with twist lock plugs.
TS > Other than for industrial vibration analysis (for which
TS > amps such as Crown's 10 KW 3 pahse unit are usually sold),
TS > or as part of high level A3 modulators, I see little good
TS > reason for singular audio amps above the limits of an
TS > ordinary 120 circuit.  It's usually IMHO better to run more
TS > units in parallel.
Parallel?
Laszlo Sokolai
Team ANTI-Windows95/PRO-OS2/PRO-Unix
lsokolai@bbs42.com
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