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Tom Manchester

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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #80 on: December 28, 2006, 06:38:57 PM »

Tried out ye' olde Camco V3 quatro today to test a 3 way cab I designed. Worked pretty well and sounded clean all the way up to the point of clipping. I got the cab loud enough that my dad walked in to tell me to turn it down because of a phone call. he stood behind me and yelled but I couldn't hear him. Not too shabby I guess. I discovered another little quirk about it. The Neutrik XLR's are upside down so the tabs are under the connector. Kind of weird.
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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #81 on: December 28, 2006, 07:00:09 PM »

If I recall it right (I might be wrong on that) the whole amp is built 'upside down', having the PCB attached to the upside of the housing.
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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #82 on: December 28, 2006, 07:52:14 PM »

Yes, The entire amp inside the rack is upside down.  This seemingly insignificant detail helps keep the dust bunnies out of the circuitry.
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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #83 on: December 28, 2006, 11:32:24 PM »

AFAIK, QSC PLX amps are this way as well. Either that, or last time I had my two 3002 apart, I was in some alternate reality...
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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #84 on: December 28, 2006, 11:32:24 PM »

The new Crest amps are built the same way. I was told by another local sound company that owns a bunch that none of them had to be taken apart and painstakingly brushed clean by hand after Burning Man last year. A quick blowout and they were good to go. A savings of many hours of labor.
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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #85 on: December 28, 2006, 11:45:16 PM »

Lee Jacobson wrote on Thu, 28 December 2006 23:32

AFAIK, QSC PLX amps are this way as well. Either that, or last time I had my two 3002 apart, I was in some alternate reality...


Yup, PLX's are built the same way.

First plx amp I got freaked me out. I was like, is this amp upside down!? Had to make a few calls...


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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #86 on: January 16, 2007, 11:00:27 PM »

I'm not going to lie or beat around the bush. The whole "all 4 channels on 2 speakons" is a REALLY big inconvenience to me. I haven't used the amp yet mostly because of that reason. It would require me rigging up special connectors just for that and I don't have the time or money to buy a bunch of extra NL4's. Lab Grupen got it right on their amps...

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Now that's convenient! And put some binding post outputs on there too, especially if your amps are going to be hooked up to a patchbay it saves the need to have to get even more speakon connectors.
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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #87 on: January 17, 2007, 12:20:30 AM »

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I can understand your not wanting to make custom patch cables for a casual test of a single amp but of course if you were intending to buy a pallet load of these for your stadium system you'd be getting over it pretty quickly.

I haven't looked inside the Quadro to see if there's any room for two more NL4s. Is there? Do they just not have any choice?

Perhaps the Road Test amp samples should be supplied with some typical patch gack.

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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #88 on: January 17, 2007, 08:36:40 AM »

I think not, if I remember rightly, the PCB is where you marked the exra jacks.

Michael 'Bink' Knowles wrote on Wed, 17 January 2007 05:20

index.php/fa/7465/0/

I can understand your not wanting to make custom patch cables for a casual test of a single amp but of course if you were intending to buy a pallet load of these for your stadium system you'd be getting over it pretty quickly.

I haven't looked inside the Quadro to see if there's any room for two more NL4s. Is there? Do they just not have any choice?

Perhaps the Road Test amp samples should be supplied with some typical patch gack.

-Bink

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Re: Camco Vortex Amplifiers
« Reply #89 on: January 17, 2007, 11:35:52 AM »

I have no problem with only two speakons for four channels. If you put amps in racks you'll probably add a connector panel anyway, so you have to put some speakons there, a wire and at the end of it some speakons to connect to the amp (That's what I do with my LAB Gruppen). In that fashion you only need two NL4 to connect to the amp instead of four.

However, adding two speakons wouldn't have hurt. The amp is expensive, I don't know why they couldn't put in two more speakons for the price of 3$.
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