[Amps] me not an idiot

[Dave White]

The less you cane a piece of equipment the less the stress on components run well within their specification limits.  Simple as that.  Sure, I can't see the point in building a 4CX10,000D amp to run 400w but a 5kw amp to run a k and a half seems ok to me.  You pays your money and you takes your choice
Cheers
D


-----Original Message-----
From: "Alex Eban" <alexeban at gmail.com>
To: "'Dave White'" <mausoptik at btinternet.com>; "'Herzog'" <herzog at frontiernet.net>
Cc: amps at contesting.com
Sent: 29/03/2010 09:52
Subject: RE: [Amps] me not an idiot

In a car, and any mechanical construction it's a must. You need that extra
power to make you escape in an emergency. Just like "war power setting" in a
war plane.
But please explain tome what do you need it for in a desktop amplifier? Who
are you running from/ on whose head is it going to fall?
Extrapolations from field to field aren't always translating one to one!
If you keep this way, you may finish with a Thales 500kW tube at 35kV to run
a one kilowatt , with no intermods products. At 150kiobucks just for the
tube, does that sound as a good proposition?
Design a reasonable amplifier at let's say 2kW input and concentrate on
circuit refinements instead.
This is what I call good engineering in hobby type circuits!
Alex		4Z5KS

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