On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
  Hmm... I'm not sure the Straight-8 qualifies by
that yardstick.  30A
 120V circuit, no problem.  20A, I'm not as confident. 
Ehm, a Straight-8 only needs a few hundred watts (maybe 200W). We run it
together with the Tennecomp tape system from a smallish step-down
transformer without problems. Seems like American current is quite
different from European current ;-)
Christian