Anyone ever tried using a power amp to make 120VAC


I saw on the van den Hul website a suggestion for generating your own AC power using any unused amp you might have lying around.

It suggests connecting the output of the amp to a step-up transformer of adequate kVA, and feeding a sine wave into the amp inputs. The output taps of the transformer would output the same sine wave, but boosted in voltage so it could function as a dedicated AC generator.

Anyone ever tried this? I wonder how well it worked, and how you generated the sine wave. In theory, it seems it should work pretty well.
steverw

Showing 1 response by eldartford

Many years ago there was a modification to the Dyna Kit (yes, that long ago) tube amp to do this.