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From: KLUDGE@AGCB1.LARC.NASA.GOV
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Subject: Class A amps
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Date: 25 Sep 90 12:51:41 GMT
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Class A amplifiers are not ecologically unsound.  They do not make energy
disappear, they merely transform it into heat.  For example, a 120 watt
Citation II amplifier pulls 750W idling (and also 750W when in operation).
This means when it's idling, it dissipates 750W as heat, and it is just as
efficient in this as an electric space heater.  Granted it is not as 
good a way of heating your house as possible, but it isn't bad.  So think
of your amplifier as taking a load off of your furnace in the winter.
--scott
   (formerly kludge@pyr.gatech.edu... ask chen@debesys about my amplifier)