Linears: Tell me what I need to know before I buy

I'll be in Howard's neck of the woods on Monday afternoon I'm going to see if he can repair my magnum that's if he has the parts for it ???

 

That would be fun to explain to your insurance carrier

 

I'd be curious to know what amp/linear was in that truck??? That amp would have to be pulling a whole lot of juice... more important is what gauge wire was used ??? What connecters were used- was there a blade fuse or circuit breaker connected down at the battery it was connected to below ???

 

It was a Class C box. If you knew the Hoops that he had to jump through just to connect it to his scope and then notice it was installed in the customer's vehicle with a different jumper you'd understand what was wrong with the equation

 

In other words bupp boy didn't go out and supervise or look at the actual parts or equipment used for the installation in the trk. Coax---coax jumper--- gauge wire or anything.... ok well that doesn't surprise me with him at all..... wonder if he ever went to court or prison yet.... not seeing him not go to prison with those type of charges against him ...

 

I wasn't privy to the installation information although I do know he used a long piece of cable to Route the output of the amplifier from the parking lot in through the window to his scope and he used another long piece of wire to run from the radio on his bench out the window to the amplifier in the customer's truck to make the connections to his bench. He never specified how it was installed in the customer's truck although I suspect the customer did everything himself.
Refer to the "does coax length matter" video to see what happens when the cable used on the bench is a different length than the one installed in the customer's vehicle.
Hypothetically if it was a Class A B amplifier with a perfect 50 ohm input and output impedance the jumper length shouldn't matter but that definitely wasn't the case in this situation.

 

Now that I think about it he doesn't sell anything in that shop to be hooking up a big amp. Not the coax---not the proper gauge wire/cable -- no blade fuses no circuit breakers nothing... a bag of marshmallows and some hotdogs would have been handy to have when all this was going on.......lmao

 

All the long wires bupp used to his scope back and forth to the truck etc......Sez---tells ya that was a nightmare waiting to happen.....

 

According to Theory cable length doesn't matter.
But then again Class C amplifiers are not something most people are familiar with.