"Fred McKenzie"


Suppose you connect your 100 Watt Technics amp directly to the
distribution system. Maximum RMS voltage out of a 16 Ohm output would
be 40 Volts. For a 70.7 Volt system, maximum power would be somewhat
less than 100 Watts before it starts to clip.


** The most sensible thing to do is use with a domestic stereo amp is use
it in bridge mode AVOIDING the step-up tranny entirely.

This way, you will easily enough get 70V rms and with very little chance of
damaging the amp as the resistance in the distributed speaker system plus
cabling is likely to be more than 8 ohms.

A simple ohm meter check will confirm this and if it is a tad less than 8
ohms, just add some ohms in series.



..... Phil