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Chipotle
Junior Member
Username: Chipotle
Post Number: 26
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 - 3:12 pm: | 
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I just bought a 1 transitor driving four Fatboy mobile and tested it at 18 volts. It swings to 840 watts. Here is a picture
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Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 2069
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 - 10:13 pm: |
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Kewl guts,what are the pill numbers?Bigbob |
Chipotle
Junior Member
Username: Chipotle
Post Number: 26
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 3:08 am: |
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Here is another three pill Fatboy base I have. It will do about 500. |
Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 456
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 11:32 am: |
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Those Fatboy amps are awsome. 18 volts no sweat! A tech around here sells them and I been debating betwween a Fatboy or a Texas Star but the cost is leaning me towards TS. How much was your 5 pill and how do you like its performance and oh does it work on SSB? |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 1094
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 5:50 pm: |
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davemade 5 pill on 12 volts will do 800+ pep, 500 rms while keying 250. on 18 volts SHOULD key 400 & swing 1400+. & price is comparable to texas star. as is xforce(EXACTLY the same as davemade). they will take 3-4 watts(or less) to get max recommended carrier of 250 from amp and handle up to 35 watts pep to get 900+ out pep. back mic gain of S9 off just a tad on AM or SSB to get swing down to 35 watts & you'll notice NO LOSS in audio strength/loudness to get full pep of amp. heck, drop swing down to 20 watts even & STILL see 800 watts pep!
MOST of the custom made amps are based on the same original design(whose design-NOBODY KNOWS) & if the person who assembled it was paying attention to what they were doing, you'll get nearly twice the pep of commercially made amps at a comparable price. THEY will USUALLY handle HIGHER swing peaks then commercially made amps, but they are just as particular to INPUT watts-WATCH THE INPUT DEAD KEY! |
Chipotle
Junior Member
Username: Chipotle
Post Number: 27
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 9:38 pm: |
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I bought the five pill for $319.00.
Here is a three pill mobile I bought for $1.99.00. It works excellent. You can see more insides of amplifiers at:
AmateurLinearAmplifiers.com
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Sparkomatic
Intermediate Member
Username: Sparkomatic
Post Number: 356
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 9:18 am: |
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Fat Boy, Davemade, Xforce all do about the same watts.....they are all copies of the original Daves but with very minor tuning differences.
Seems that the Fat Boys are a little less expensive and thereby are better values. |
Slowhand
Member
Username: Slowhand
Post Number: 50
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 10:31 am: |
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bomade 8 pill here. |
Chipotle
Junior Member
Username: Chipotle
Post Number: 27
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 7:20 pm: |
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Do you have a pic of the bomade 8 pill? |
Slowhand
Member
Username: Slowhand
Post Number: 52
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 10:16 pm: |
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pic of a 2x8. mine is identical except its straight 8
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Chipotle
Junior Member
Username: Chipotle
Post Number: 28
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 8:22 pm: |
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Here is a pic of an xforce 10 pill
http://amateurlinearamplifiers.com/productimages/xforce10inside.jpg
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