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Gareth Magennis Gareth Magennis is offline
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Default Yamaha EMX5016 mixer amp from 2006



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repair m on e-S and there is an inverter stuck in before the R ch o/p,
not
for the L





Is it just for evening up the ps?. If a momentary high draw from one PA on
+/ve rail dropping reservoir by 1V then also a matching 1V drop on the -ve
rail from the other ch, wheras usually that would be a 2V drop on + rail
only






Yes there is a specific reason/technique involved in running the outputs
"out of phase" and inverting the signal to one channel.
Yamaha also do this with the Stagepas range, Lab Gruppen do this with their
far more pro series of amps. There are others. You can get more out of
the power supply by doing this.


I personally consider the technique fundamentally extremely dodgy, since the
"ground" connection on one of the amplifiers is actually live, which is not
at all obvious to anyone not in the know. In the case of the Stagepas, you
have 2 speaker jack outputs next to each other. Plug in 2 metal jack plugs
to your speakers and you have the almost unimaginable situation of 2 jack
plug bodies a few mm apart, with a power amplifiers output between them.
If you use right angled metal jack plugs, a dead short and a blown amp is
pretty much a certainty at some point, as is accidentally touching anything
grounded against the one live speaker output jack plug body "ground"



Gareth.