[BC] Changing channels

[Bailey, Scott]

Willie,
   Yes, Armstrong does use a switching power supply, and I found it more
efficient than the Harris. The difference between the LPB and the
Armstrong is that you will be much louder with the Armstrong, due to
it's larger, PDM amp, than the LPB. I've tried both, and came out with
that conclusion.
   Currently, Armstrong only builds a 500 watt and 1 KW AM box.

Night power for me is 3 watts, and it does more than one would think.

It's a great plug and play box, the only pitfall is now output network
to tune into "not normal" loads. Like the BE or LPB, it hates anything
outside 50 ohms.





>Perhaps they have a means of improving the efficiency at low power? 
>(Switching power supply, maybe?) With the Harris box, the efficiency
>(Line/Load) goes 
>out the window when running the box at sub-hundred watt power levels.
It >has a linear supply, which is one reason. That huge hunk of iron is
always >using some power, all the time the box is "on".

>Interesting that you saw a $50 change in the electric bill between the
two 
>boxes. 

>I still think that an LPB would use a lot less juice for those light
bulb 
>power levels, though, as opposed to a 1Kw or more box, dialed way down.
Of 
>course, you said that they did something to "set it up" for you... so
maybe >there's 
>some special mod they do, to make it more compatible with a flea-power
>mode? 
>What is your night power, BTW?

>Willie...