Re: Two Bose 802 questions
I was actually product manager over power amps at peavey, when we broke through the apparent line cord power limit of around 3kW. I was surprised to see a larger power amp (QSC) at a trade show with a normal line cord, and immediately upon getting back to my office, confronted our in house UL guy and asked what is going on? The confusion continued when the east coast UL office confirmed the 3kW limit??? After some more digging it turned out that the west coast UL office had relaxed the power limit, allowing more peak output power than continuous input (line cord ) power. After some back and forth we got the two UL offices on the same page and higher power amps that plug into Edison outlets continued their power march higher. Before that we were forced to use camper plugs for higher power points that customers immediately cut off and plugged into Edison outlets with no apparent problems.
I also recall when QSC started hitting higher and higher power points despite popular wisdom that there weren't any customers or speakers for that much power, but in classic "build it and they will come" fashion, they built them and they sold.
JR
PS The real Fireball was active in racing when I was just a motor-head HS puke. The name seemed to fit and stuck with me for my childhood friends. It seemed fitting for me to register as Fireball at the drag race (where I won a trophy).
