"Cydrome Leader"

That reminds me- does anybody unnderstood what Carver's "power steering"
was supposed to be or mean in their amps?


** Bob Carver was an expert at coming up with high falutin' names for
various clever dodges he used to save weight and cost.

His " Magnetic Field " amps were nothing of the kind. They simply employed
a triac based voltage regulator in the AC supply to improve the regulation
factor of a ridiculously small iron transformer.

In his M400 and PM-2 designs, these puny transformers would emit cracking
noises and *smoke* if you ever bench tested them at rated power for more
than 60 seconds. No thermal shut down was fitted to save the trannies
either.

From the blurbs on "Power Steering" it applies to 5.1 channel amps and
allows one audio channel to dominate the load on PSU at any given time.
Likely a simple boost inhibit circuit that allows the use of a puny AC
transformer again.




.... Phil