> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:58:10PM -0400, Ryan Foster wrote:
>> I am sure their setup is not getting the kind of efficiencies in
>> energy transfer that any properly designed setup would be achieving.
>>
>> None the less it also sounds stupid to me.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Bill Fuqua <wlfuqu00@uky.edu> wrote:
>> > At 11:09 PM 4/5/2010 -0400, donroden@hiwaay.net wrote:
>> >>peanut compared to some of the 11 METER MOBILE amps I have seen
>> >>
>> >>How bout a 4CX15,000 powered by four 200 amp alternators in a Suburba
>> >>with a big block 454.
>> >
>> >
>> > I should be able to drive that amplifier with my VW Beetle engine.
>> > It should only take about 80 HP where is all that power going from
>> > the 454 bigblock with nitrous oxide injection? A hundred hp would be
>> > a little less than 75kW.
>> >
>> > Sounds stupid to me.
>
> And to me. I'm glad my dad is dead; he was a mechanical design engineer
> who couldn't bear either stupidity or bad design, and this exemplifies
> both. Me? I keep thinking about the belts slipping, and wondering why
> the belts and pulleys aren't toothed.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea@mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
Sometimes slippage is a good thing
Carl
KM1h
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