White Van Speaker Scam

[CanAm Man]

Originally Posted by digits

Popular Electronics October 1970
this is the link for the universal tiger

I just hit that link......

Interesting...... they actually used the term "indestructable" on the cover of Pop 'Tronics to describe the amp......!

That must have been before they plugged it in, for the first time..... or before they connnected it to any speaker.....or before they looked at it cross-eyed......!

I had far, far less luck in my early SWTP UT experiences.....

[tubelab.com]

The bigger Tigers did have a reputation for blowing up.

Back in high school I made a few of the LiL Tigers. I think they were 15 or 20 watts. I used them for small guitar amps.

In the mid 70's, several of us who wanted tunes for our vans decided to build some amps. We tweaked the design to fit parts that we could get (we all worked in the Motorola plant). They were the closest thing to an indestructible amp that we could build back then. There are some boards in the picture that had TO3 output transistors mounted off board. This allowed 2 ohm loads for about 50 watts, and they still didn't blow up. A few of us experimented with the UT for subwoofers. They blew up.

[kevinkr]

Originally Posted by CanAm Man

I just hit that link......

Interesting...... they actually used the term "indestructable" on the cover of Pop 'Tronics to describe the amp......!

That must have been before they plugged it in, for the first time..... or before they connnected it to any speaker.....or before they looked at it cross-eyed......!

I had far, far less luck in my early SWTP UT experiences.....

I was given a couple old Tigers a few years ago - the large ones, their reputation being what it was I passed them along to someone more courageous than me without ever plugging them in..