[TenTec] Orion 2 situation

[Jim Lowman]

Thanks for the explanation, Cecil.  It makes sense.

Gulfport, MS eh?  Well it's been a lot of years.  I was in 
electronics/radar school at Keesler AFB from September, 1970 to May, 1971.

We were newlyweds then, and would drive over to Gulfport the back way to 
go to the Taco Bell, of all places.  How little we knew then!
More often than not, we'd stop at the mall on the way back to Biloxi.  
They had a KarmelKorn shop.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 7/1/2013 4:21 PM, chacuff at cableone.net wrote:
> Higher output from the device before distortion occurs.   You can only get so much power out of a PA with a 12V power supply before you drive it into distortion.  100W is pushing it at 12 v so distortion occurs...that same PA with a supply of 48V is capable of providing that same level of power very cleanly....  There are peaks that exceed the supplies capabilities at 12 V
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> I guess a very simplistic parallel would be battery operated power tools...(I know tech guys...poor choice) you may have noticed over the years that they went from 12V batteries to 14.4 to 18 and higher voltages...because of the limited amount of power available at a given voltage.
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> I guess if we all ran our 100W PEP radio’s at 50w PEP the problem would be greatly reduced because we wouldn't bump into the power supplies limitations and resulting distortion.
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> Same concept applies to the Mixers listed below...if you want to drive them hard you need to have enough supply voltage and current available to keep their output clean.
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> Hope that helps a bit...
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> Cecil Acuff
> Gulfport MS
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