Swordlordboy1234 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 I would be careful clamping your amp in 2 channel with your mids hooked up. Unless you start with your gains all the way down and burp for like 1 second, which makes it really hard to get an accurate reading. I bridged my 4-channel ran it to my components, voltage without any speakers hooked up was 34v. Hooked up speakers to see what i got under load, and in the time it took to get a god reading i cooked my mids. Was doing 120-130 watts a 1khz to 90w rms speakers. I should have just left well enough alone because on music they were doing fine, probably seing around 100-110 watts. And i had everything set with the 0db tone using the dd-1. You may not have the same problem but then again, you want to risk it? Thats what i was hopeing i wouldnt do. Because these mids were not exactly cheap for my budget that i can replace them tomorrow if needed... but at the same time i was like... DARN... what to use the other 2 channels for... lol Quote My old YouTube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/SwordLords1234?feature=mhee My old build log : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/161872-96-accord-b2-sundown-sky-high-dc-power-re-re-build-for-heatwave/page-37 My New Build - http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/207041-2016-mazda-6-sql-build/ 2016 Mazda 6 Touring JL Fix 86 - OEM signal correction B2 prototype DSP 6to8 B2 Ref63 - 3 way active set 2 B2 Class H quattro's 1 B2 Zero.5R @.5 2 B2 HNv3 12 d2 B2 SLIP40 - Lithium in the trunk Northstar Group 35 under the hood 100ft 2/0 welding cable 30ft 4ga welding cable 20ft 8ga welding cable All stinger OFC speaker wire Soundrive custom RCA's Tons of attention to detail.... Can it be perfect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swordlordboy1234 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 Dial the amp down to run rms power. Mids and highs will burn up really fast once they start to stink Ohms law: power = v2/r where v is ac voltage, and r is the resistance See now i understand what you said more clearly. the 14.4 is the DC voltage. Not AC. the AC voltage is after the amplifier amplifies it and the gain knob controls how much it is amplified. meaning i use a DD1 to insure zero distortion... and i set my amp up on 2 channels... and i use the volt meter on the the speaker outputs to measure 18.4 v... Now will doing it this way give me any benefits? Since you had to guide me into understanding how my own amp works (i feel like a student being guided by a teacher lol) ... can you or someone else explain the benefits of it? does it have something to do with "headroom" that i keep hearing about? ... Will it make the amp work less hard, giving it better SQ or better efficiency or something? Quote My old YouTube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/SwordLords1234?feature=mhee My old build log : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/161872-96-accord-b2-sundown-sky-high-dc-power-re-re-build-for-heatwave/page-37 My New Build - http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/207041-2016-mazda-6-sql-build/ 2016 Mazda 6 Touring JL Fix 86 - OEM signal correction B2 prototype DSP 6to8 B2 Ref63 - 3 way active set 2 B2 Class H quattro's 1 B2 Zero.5R @.5 2 B2 HNv3 12 d2 B2 SLIP40 - Lithium in the trunk Northstar Group 35 under the hood 100ft 2/0 welding cable 30ft 4ga welding cable 20ft 8ga welding cable All stinger OFC speaker wire Soundrive custom RCA's Tons of attention to detail.... Can it be perfect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowDrifter Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 Pretty much what you are doing is setting the amp to give you a specific amount of power. In your case: 125 watts. More accurate than guessing on the gain since your amp puts out more power than the speakers can handle. The dd-1 is there simply to make sure there are no other artifacts in the output signal. Quote ~~~~~~~~SAY NO TO PHOTOBUCKET~~~~~~~~ Snow's DD-1 tracks here: https://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/167433-snows-dd-1-tracks/ My take on OFC vs CCA: https://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/110381-things-that-piss-you-off-in-the-car-audio-world/?do=findComment&comment=2461444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ight Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 I'd just leave the other two channels unoccupied with the wattage of your speakers. You could also run active. Quote I'm gonna hate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocking.that.eclipse Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 Why don't you run an active settup and have the woofers on 2 channels and the tweeters on the other 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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