New Arrival : Ten-Tec Centaur HF Linear Amplifier

I was not planning to buy an amplifier.  I’ve operated barefoot all my life and had no compelling reason to change that.  Then a fellow ham about 45 minutes away from me decided to sell his 600W Ten-Tec Centaur for a price too good to pass up.

Unfortunately, Ill need to have an additional electrical circuit installed in order to use it.  It draws just 12A at 110V, but with everything else here in the shack on a single circuit I’m sure I would pop the breaker when I key the Centaur up. It will run on 220VAC. If I’m going to have an extra electrical circuit put in, I might as well make it 220V 20A circuit in case sometime in the future I move to a bigger amplifier.