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- From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:47:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: Class A/B/whatever... What does it mean?
- Message-ID: <5070309@hplsla.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
- Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hplsla!tomb
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- References: <JMD.92Jul14132934@ocelot.bear.com>
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- George_Lin@mindlink.bc.ca (George Lin) writes:
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- >My class A amp stays very warm, even if it's been sitting idle for hours.
- >My class B amp cools off if you leave it idle.
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- Your class A amp should actually _cool_off_ from idle state when it
- starts delivering power. In fact, if you ask it to deliver a full-
- power square wave, it should cool down very considerably!
-