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

[Jeff Blaine AC0C]

Plenty of youtube videos out there.  Some guys mentioning 75KW.  I could not 
believe it after seeing some of Carl's comments on the broken crankshafts - 
but it does seem to be true.  Strange but true!!!

73/jeff/ac0c


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From: "mikea" <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:20 PM
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Hmmmm...Legal limit boiled the oil in the cantena

> 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
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