[Amps] Hmmmm...Legal limit boiled the oil in the cantena

[mikea]

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 at uky.edu> wrote:
> > At 11:09 PM 4/5/2010 -0400, donroden at 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 at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin