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Jelloir,
In answer to your question about stacking. The Tracker 5 can be stacked but that requires the other units to be just slave units. Regulation then must be controlled by the master Tracker it then would only require two small 18 gauge wires as all output's would be parallel to the main unit. The outputs and inputs then are strapped together and you could take this up to 15Kw and beyond if you wanted to. The slave units would also be fan cooled but the battery indicator would be missing. The driver portion of the unit must be modified for the proper drive current. We have not had anybody ask for that to be built that way but the circuits are already in the board to do that. so the slave units would just have a blue led and the fan all controlled by the master unit. The tricky part is the driver amplifier but it can be done to drive any amount of output slaves. Not very many people would be able to buy that many units unless money was no object. The 160 amp unit is limited by the output breaker but can take far more then advertised it's almost 50% under rated the 80 Amp is 20% under rated giving these units large safe SOA curves for the amplifier section. I did build a few with large TO3 Devices with massive heat sinks. The units are still in test and running just fine 3 years later. I did this the same way as the Amplifiers because If I live 35 more years that is when I would see them back if anything failed. Hope this answers your question.
John B
Jelloir,
In answer to your question about stacking. The Tracker 5 can be stacked but that requires the other units to be just slave units. Regulation then must be controlled by the master Tracker it then would only require two small 18 gauge wires as all output's would be parallel to the main unit. The outputs and inputs then are strapped together and you could take this up to 15Kw and beyond if you wanted to. The slave units would also be fan cooled but the battery indicator would be missing. The driver portion of the unit must be modified for the proper drive current. We have not had anybody ask for that to be built that way but the circuits are already in the board to do that. so the slave units would just have a blue led and the fan all controlled by the master unit. The tricky part is the driver amplifier but it can be done to drive any amount of output slaves. Not very many people would be able to buy that many units unless money was no object. The 160 amp unit is limited by the output breaker but can take far more then advertised it's almost 50% under rated the 80 Amp is 20% under rated giving these units large safe SOA curves for the amplifier section. I did build a few with large TO3 Devices with massive heat sinks. The units are still in test and running just fine 3 years later. I did this the same way as the Amplifiers because If I live 35 more years that is when I would see them back if anything failed. Hope this answers your question.
John B
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