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Going to clamp my amp - what do I need?


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I searched and some say get a peak hold meter, some say don't...

What exactly do I need?

Cheapest possible preferred.

Side note: should I even care about box rise if I'm not doing burp competing?

I was thinking about just having a burp setup for daily driving to annoy people on the road as much as possible but still have the tweeters and mids playing level matched to the burps.

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Um, yeah. Please don't annoy people with your system We have a bad enough rep already. Optimal is an rms meter and i think they are expensive. But you have to watch it while you burp and record volts and amps at the same time. Peak means jack shit because unless you know when your peak voltage and amperage happen then you will have inaccurate results

edit:

also i think Ray said that phase plays into this and amperage lags behind voltage a bit in an amplifier so your results may be off by 10% - 15%. So you will probably be doing %10- %15 less than what reading you get. Ray can explain it better

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Um, yeah. Please don't annoy people with your system We have a bad enough rep already. Optimal is an rms meter and i think they are expensive. But you have to watch it while you burp and record volts and amps at the same time. Peak means jack shit because unless you know when your peak voltage and amperage happen then you will have inaccurate results

But if it's a peak hold, won't that just keep holding whenever it gets higher and higher?

And I'm being serious with this question: but I thought that the goal was to annoy people/show off as much as possible? or would you all still have a loud system if it was a "I am legend" type thing and there was literally no other thing on the planet?

2010 HHR LT - DNX 6160 - sony xec-700 - sony xm-4040 for door mids - XM-6020 for tweets in a-pillar - saz1500d v1 - VVME RD-12 1.75 f^3 32hz

guru and president of the "cheap asses trying to beat up the block with bargain bin woofers" club

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Um, yeah. Please don't annoy people with your system We have a bad enough rep already. Optimal is an rms meter and i think they are expensive. But you have to watch it while you burp and record volts and amps at the same time. Peak means jack shit because unless you know when your peak voltage and amperage happen then you will have inaccurate results

But if it's a peak hold, won't that just keep holding whenever it gets higher and higher?

And I'm being serious with this question: but I thought that the goal was to annoy people as much as possible? or would you all still have a loud system if it was a "I am legend" type thing and there was literally no other thing on the planet?

no, i enjoy my system on the highway, never cranked in residentials or even buisness districts. Plus i enjoy given demos.

Anyway, peak wont work because amperage and voltage will probably peak at different times. So it wont give true results. you may have higher voltage but at lower amperage, and you won't see it unless you are keeping an eye on the meter while you burp.

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"And I'm being serious with this question: but I thought that the goal was to annoy people as much as possible?"

I really hope you're trolling.

REALLY

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But that's what I dont get

If one meter holds it's peak, and keeps on metering and upping the peak hold, won't it always give the highest rating? Thats what confuses me

Or does it not work like that?

I plan to record the results in 5hz increments at first to get a good idea of everything, not playing a sweep.

25hz, record meters. 30hz, record meters etc etc.

I assume that you thought I was talking about playing a sweeping wave from x to x hz?

2010 HHR LT - DNX 6160 - sony xec-700 - sony xm-4040 for door mids - XM-6020 for tweets in a-pillar - saz1500d v1 - VVME RD-12 1.75 f^3 32hz

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"And I'm being serious with this question: but I thought that the goal was to annoy people as much as possible?"

I really hope you're trolling.

REALLY

Yeah I was trolling. Only a douche would actually run a burp setup for daily use...

2010 HHR LT - DNX 6160 - sony xec-700 - sony xm-4040 for door mids - XM-6020 for tweets in a-pillar - saz1500d v1 - VVME RD-12 1.75 f^3 32hz

guru and president of the "cheap asses trying to beat up the block with bargain bin woofers" club

Posted

OP, grab a pencil and paper and prepare to be taken to school on why clamping your amp the way we have been traditionally been told to do it actually doesnt work.

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OP, grab a pencil and paper and prepare to be taken to school on why clamping your amp the way we have been traditionally been told to do it actually doesnt work.

Damn...forget I asked. I can't afford all that equipment...

2010 HHR LT - DNX 6160 - sony xec-700 - sony xm-4040 for door mids - XM-6020 for tweets in a-pillar - saz1500d v1 - VVME RD-12 1.75 f^3 32hz

guru and president of the "cheap asses trying to beat up the block with bargain bin woofers" club

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