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From: wjm@whuxj.UUCP (MITCHELL)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re:Carver Amps
Message-ID: <243@whuxj.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-May-84 09:29:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 09:29:03 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 18-May-84 02:13:03 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J.
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One caveat about the original Carver Amp (the M-400) is that it has a very low
power factor under certain conditions.  What this means is that the amp has
a substantial current drain (although the power consumption is fairly reasonable
since the current is out of phase with the voltage).  Since the power 
consumption is low, it won't do much damage to your electric bill, but the
high current drain can do nasty things like blow house fuses.
Also, Carver amps invert the phase of ONE channel, so you can't connect the
two "ground" terminals together at the speaker outputs.
Bill Mitchell
Bellcore
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