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[AMPS] Type-accept ?

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Subject: [AMPS] Type-accept ?
From: philk5pc@connect.net (Phil Clements)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 02:29:27 -0500
At 07:48 AM 4/23/97 -0700, you wrote:
 
>FCC and Type accept ?? What !! I have never heard this before.
>How is that "law" working ? I belived that USA was a country of freedom.
>What about the 3 holer 4XC800A from Commander ? 

The law has succeeded in reducing the currently available commercial amps.
to underpowered, over-worked, underengineered toys.
 
>The amp consumes 30 amps at 230VAC, so not many outside north America can
use it
>at full output. To much current for a singel phase, so it has to be ment
>for use on the US/Canadian market where the 230 lines are thicker than
>a mensleg. Maybe "export only" means Canada :)

30 amps is nothing! Don't you have a clothes dryer, or electric range, or
a central air conditioning unit? A pair of electric hair driers pull almost
30 amps!

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