Jim@Optonline wrote:

buyer beware obviously but driving an amp

with 4 watts stock and it fries?




Yea,,that's odd.




if that is true

then copper should make the caveat that only
low power is needed which brings up another

scenario where the operator has to turn it

down. what a mess that would bring...





Many amps say "X-amount of watts out with 3 or 4 watts in." Additional
watts, even one, = user error, NOT more power. You need admit, the
majority of repairs on many fiddled with radios and amps arrive that
state via user error and/or ignorance. The radio and amp need "married"
to each other in a most perect union. This obviously was not done. In
many, many cases of such amp use, a lower dead key on the radio
(necessitating an adjustment to the output) is not only desirable, but
necessary. Chances are he overdrove it.




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