Amps & dead car batteries.
Hello all!
I haven't had any good unusual posts since "flaming woofer cones", so I thought I'd share this post from AK:
Crown Gear
I have been a Crown fan ever since the DC300A replaced the DC300. Back then I bought a Crown IC-150, DC-300A and ESS amt3 speakers. Still have them, the only repair ever done was replacing melted diaphrams in the Heil air motiom transformers (my fault 1970s emerson, lake & palmer) I have used crown professionally, one time the rental car would not start at the hotel and we could not get a jump anywhere. No problem, hooked the cables from the car battery to ONE channel of the 300A and hooked up a 1.5 v penlight battery to the input of the Crown, slowly turned up that channels gain til the outputs started getting warm, waited 5 minutes then started the car. True story. I also used a D150 to drive a spark coil to trigger a strobe light lightning effect, talk about an inductive load.
All True,
Richard.
[Pete Note: not R.G. that I know of.]
Also another use for bigger amps: I read a story of how a college kid used a fairly well-known homebrew amp (can't remember the name - one version is referred to as "dbl-barrelled") to heat his dorm room when the furnace went down!
Pete
Unhhhh yeah..... (sarcasm implied)
I've been playing music professionally off and on since the Nixon Administration. I've used Crowns in just about everyway imaginable. I've had them survive torrential downpours, raging heat and freezing cold. One fell out the door of a moving van, bounced a couple of hundred feet before grinding to a halt on the the side of the Sunrise Highway. An hour later the sucka fired up like a champ, you couldn't kill em with a nuke. However all that being said, start a car with a Crown PA amp? As they said in the movie "Tombstone":
"You ever seen anything like that before?"
"I ain't never heard of anything like that before!"
Nuff said...
Da Skeptical Worfster :confused:
Blasted Whipper snapper, respect your elders!!!
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Originally Posted by piece-it pete
Wow that's one tough amp!
Since Nixon? Showing your age, the old-timer Worfster :).
I checked a good chunk of his previous posts & he comes across as very mature, quite tech. savvy, somewhat no-nonsense. Perhaps someone here knows if this would work?
Pete
Yeah, I'm old. It's not like Moses was playing drums in my first band or anything.. but I been around. As for showing my age.... yeah so... LOL. I know too many guys from my old neighborhood that DIDN'T live to get this ole. So I'm enjoying my long slow trip into decrepidity....
Da Worfster
Didn't you see "Pulp Fiction"?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Swerd
Hey Worf
By far the best part of getting old is that it beats the alternative!
Tell us about your new avatar.
"Which wallet is yours?"
"The one that say's 'bad muthaf**ker on it!!"
One helluva character....
Da Worfster... :o