Not a lot, about a dozen.
I have never seen one smoke, I have seen the components around them smoke or in the case of the high voltage fets, not much smoke but mr blue...
Duh, that was my point.
The class of most CB amps is not the reason they are dirty, its the reason they are non linear. Over drive and over modulated radios is the reason...
Stay away from the shop you mentioned.
They only increase power.
I guess that gave him a "toaster" burn :biggrin_25519:
Yes, the transistors "draw" more bias current and the bias voltage sags more due to this. The bias circuit is not a regulated bias circuit, it...
Actually the little palomar 225's were class AB drifting into B after a few keys. That is if it is even a real palomar, most of them just look...
The real palomar amplifiers were decent amps with a good bias scheme that truly made the class AB. There was however a lot of "copys" of these...
