A little info I thought some of you would think of interest. I was
talking with Morris Kessler today about an amp I saw last March in
the design stage at ATI. It is a multi channel amp for home theater.
No biggie at first glance but as we were going over the schematics a
nice trick showed up. It has an optically isolated output section.
You can dead short the amp and it just goes into protection. Remove
the short and it starts playing again without any adverse affect to
the amp. Another twist here is you can not buy it at ATI. It is being
made for Outlaw Audio ().
ATI is using the design in their new 6 zone 12 channel amp. The amp,
also, shares the transformer with the other ATI amps that is wound
in-house at ATI. Pretty cool if you've never seen it done before. You
can see a picture of it and the multi-channel layout on Outlaw
Audio's web site.
