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Bob's your uncle, it does 600 watts PEP now | HG 2 pill

This BBI makes some good points but a lot of it is drowned out by the stuff he has no clue about, or he is trying to use to take a jab at some other amp assembler.

I'm sorry but NONE OF THEM assemble these things halfway decent.
Parts float in the air supported by their leads.
Capacitors are formed simply with the piss poor layout and assembly.

At the end (because I just skipped to it) he says that people need to start to treat each other better because the hobby is shrinking.
He needs to follow that same advice.
 
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what i don't get is how anyone buys a 1X2 amp in the first place!

it is a guaranteed splatterbox. you would have to swamp the input to those two pills so much that it would negate the purpose of the 1 pill driver even being there!

a 1X4 amp is pushing it, and that one pill can easily drive the 4 pills into saturation.
that is what we are seeing here.
two pills being pushed right up into saturation.
LC
 
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600 divided by 4 = 150
carrier x 4 is the PEP peak
150w from a pair of 100w + rated transistors? More than plausible.
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I just might be stupid but why is a driver transistor necessary or even needed?
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[opinion]
You can ask...
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It’s not about science, it’s about fun! BBi just wants us all to get along and hold hands and sing Beatles songs, haha.

Come’on LC, hold my hand... lets rejoice in the power of the 2879... sing brother!
 
we didn't start the fire
It was always burnin and the amps are churnin

BBI motorola jokerman coca cola
amplifiers ten ohm smoke radio mods

snakey's BS fine tunes ego mudduck truckers where do we go
poppin pills fryin relays stinger board sucks

we didn't start the fire
you can never key up till the channel's freed up
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't build 'em but we tried to kill 'em

LC
 
1 driving 2 is not a keydown amp, maybe only a driver. Those keydown units have as much 128 transistor or even more.

There is a system of classes to compete in, these classes are based on the number of transistors in the final amp stage. If your competing in the two pill class they ain't gonna let you run a 128 transistor amp. This is why they try to squeeze every last watt out of a transistor instead of just adding more, the number of transistors is the limiting factor in the classes.

But you're right a 1x2 would probably be used as a driver.

The problem is there are to many people out there who don't understand what these comp boxes are for and use them where they aren't appropriate.
 
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we didn't start the fire
It was always burnin and the amps are churnin

BBI motorola jokerman coca cola
amplifiers ten ohm smoke radio mods

snakey's BS fine tunes ego mudduck truckers where do we go
poppin pills fryin relays stinger board sucks

we didn't start the fire
you can never key up till the channel's freed up
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't build 'em but we tried to kill 'em

LC

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we didn't start the fire
It was always burnin and the amps are churnin

BBI motorola jokerman coca cola
amplifiers ten ohm smoke radio mods

snakey's BS fine tunes ego mudduck truckers where do we go
poppin pills fryin relays stinger board sucks

we didn't start the fire
you can never key up till the channel's freed up
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't build 'em but we tried to kill 'em

LC
Nice Billy reference
 
TRPC, some friends and i used to frequent a bar that did karaoke a few times a week and we would hang out and shoot pool.
somehow a tradition got started so that whoever won the pool game got to pick a karaoke song for the loser.

you can just imagine the hell we put each other through LOL!
well one night i was given this Billy Joel song and in my inebriated state, could not keep up with the verses.
I retaliated with REM's 'The End of the World as We Know it'.

oh, and you're welcome LOL
LC
 
I can deal with the REM song better but you can have - I’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm - there’s you some Careless Whisper, hahahaha.

Or maybe you’d prefer some 4 Non Blondes tune?
 

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