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Damn didnt mean to offend lol just a noob here I'm just being informative. It's easier to communicate with the proper terminology.

It's called a basket,not a frame.

Hell yeah. You're doing the damn thing Steve!

Should be. Try it and see.

Okay, you're good then. I must've missed where you said the high pass was set on the deck.

misread

Earlier in the thread someone told you to run full range. In my opinion that was bad advice. You should absolutely have a high pass filter set on your components. Otherwise you will destroy them by trying to play too low.

God damn it.

Mountain Dew. I'm extreme, and require an extreme drink.

Do you anticipate future litigation that will make the $15,000 a wise investment or is it more for just bragging rights? Seems worthwhile either way to me!

Do the kenwood/focal test again, but also measure the impedance during the test. Then do the math. You will see that your impedance is much higher than you assumed it was and that your amm-1 is working just fine.

You can't just wire to a lower ohm load to "account for any sort of rise". If you're having a ton of rise, you'll still have a half ton of rise wired lower. In this thread Wicks has showed you with actual graphs just how crazily high impedance can rise. What you don't seem to be understanding is that using an amm-1 in a vehicle will yield the exact results you are getting. The problem is rise, not the amm-1. It's been said over and over again. If you measure what your actual impedance is at the time of the test and do the math you will see that the amm-1 is doing it's job. The fact you are measuring power at all shows that the amm-1 is working fine. It will either work, or not work, it won't just read low. You're being confronted with the harsh reality that in real world applications and due to the complexities of electricity that amplifiers rarely ever put out rated power. The incredibly low wattage figures you've listed seem absolutely normal to me. The answer is rise. RISE. RISE. RISE. RISE. RISE. You clearly have underestimated the amount that impedance rise is present in audio. Use your amm-1 to measure the actual impedance you see. It is not what the amp is wired at. Also your "free air" test- well, that's a free air speaker and of course the impedance will be all over the place. It's weird. It's like you completely understand what impedance rise is, it's just that you are unwilling to accept that impedance rise is happening to you. The numbers you posted in the first post seem completely normal and accurate to me DUE TO RISE. Your amm-1 is working fine, you're just not willing to accept that in a real world environment no one gets near to "rated" power. No one. Not even the best of the best.

Just go ask on the LS group on Facebook.

If they drop in 3 days they most likely won't hold a load. It's worth investing in a charger with a desulphation option, it could bring these batteries back and give you another couple years. Or they my be toast. It's nice to have a good charger anyway.