[Amps] EBM Fan

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Thu Feb 18 08:52:59 PST 2010


On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:44:10 +0800, Alek Petkovic wrote:

>In the case of my amp, because we have 240VAC mains, it is sitting 
>across 1 half of the primary winding of the transformer. Not an ideal 
>situation.

There is nothing "non-ideal" about this -- it is a perfectly good way to 
operate a 120V fan from a 240 volt source. Many good power amps are built 
that way, including some Ten Tec and Alpha models. 

73,

Jim K9YC





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