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These numbers are from my buddy Chris (kickassaudio here on SMD). He runs two Massive Audio DB8000.1's strapped to an SMD 18. The clamp results he achieved are below.

Wired to .5 ohms resting:

30Hz track, 2794.5 watts at 1.38 ohms after rise

35Hz track, 3431.85 watts at 2.03 ohms after rise

40Hz track, 4843.3 watts at 1.368 ohms after rise

45Hz track, 5127.15 watts at 1.16 ohms after rise

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wired to 2 ohms resting:

30Hz track, 612.5 watts at 6.4 ohms after rise

35Hz track, 762.3 watts at 9.41 ohms after rise

40Hz track, 1470 watts at 6.53 ohms after rise

45Hz track, 2208.4 watts at 4.48 ohms after rise.

Take notice to the two lines I highlighted in bold above. Why is it that at 30 and 40 hertz the impedances are nearly identical, but a 40 hertz burp yields over 2000 watts rms more?

Can someone please explain this phenomenon to me?

Thanks

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On the 30hz track the amps and volts were just lower than at 40hz. It just happens that when you divided volts by amps in both cases that it came out to similar reactive ohm loads but when you multiple the larger numbers together you obviously get more power.

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As a request from my man Cody (CJ18) here are the clamp and dmm readings i obtained while burping the system

Loaded down at 2 ohms resting:

30Hz: 9.8 amps, 62.5v ac

35Hz: 9.0 amps, 84.7v ac

40Hz: 15 amps, 98.0v ac

45Hz: 22.2 amps, 99.5v ac

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Loaded down at .5 ohms resting:

30Hz: 45 amps, 62.1v ac

35Hz: 41.1 amps, 83.5v ac

40Hz: 59.5 amps, 81.4v ac

45Hz: 66.5 amps, 77.1v ac.

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