whats my actually RMS output

[FiBTLforlife]

thanks for the help, sorry if i seem lost. but i understand now. i guess we are start somewhere

[loburbon]

no problem bro. we all had to start somewhere

[Nightshade]

Whoever said 795 watts is right. I don't know what your nominal impedence is but I'd have to guess around 1 ohm. You reactive or your rise if you will is 4.63 ohms and that is the impedence that you are making the 795 watts at. Sounds pretty right to me and I've tested a few amps in my day.

[loburbon]

so have i. but look how he said he tested it. i dont know about you but i would rather retest it the right way to make sure

[Nightshade]

so have i. but look how he said he tested it. i dont know about you but i would rather retest it the right way to make sure

What are you talking about he got 60.7 volts AC from the sub wire and 13.1 amps AC from the same wire. That is the right way to test /story don't argue cause your not gonna change Ohms Law. He did nothing wrong except measure the battery wire going to the amp too which is useless for an rms power test.

[loburbon]

he did them one at a time, with a single meter. im not arguing im stating a simple fact. read then type. i know what ohms law is. and i also know he says he put the clamp meter on the sub wires to get his voltage. so try to impress someone else, i know how to read

[Nightshade]

he did them one at a time, with a single meter. im not arguing im stating a simple fact. read then type. i know what ohms law is. and i also know he says he put the clamp meter on the sub wires to get his voltage. so try to impress someone else, i know how to read

I'm not trying to impress anyone, just stating that he did nothing wrong with the way he measured. I compete in an organization that clamps your amps power to determine your power class. I've done it and seen it done over 500 times. Try not to take offense when someone is trying to teach you something.

Since I really don't understand what your saying he did wrong please elaborate for me.

Edited August 1, 2009 by Nightshade

[Guest]

What are you talking about he got 60.7 volts AC from the sub wire and 13.1 amps AC from the same wire. That is the right way to test /story don't argue cause your not gonna change Ohms Law. He did nothing wrong except measure the battery wire going to the amp too which is useless for an rms power test.

i got the same exact number, around 795rms. and mike come on haha i walked you through this so many times

Edited August 1, 2009 by Krannyman92

[loburbon]

i have also clamp several amps. i understand that you compete so do i. and while he may get close to the same results, i have personally seen the readings differ to much between clamping the speaker wire vs using an actual dmm to get the voltage. thats the only part im talking about. yes his numbers seem close to what the should considering the small box volume and rise he is seeing. and i dont normally take offense, it was the way you came across in your post. thats all.

[Nightshade]

First off you can't use an AC clamp to find the voltage of the amp. I've never seen one in my lifetime if there is one that can do it. I have a clamp meter that is also a dmm and I'm assuming that he has a similar one too. Just because he said clamp the wire for the voltage doesn't mean he acutally clamped it. It's a figure of speach that we use all the time in NSPL. We say that we are going to clamp the amp and that means that we are going to use a clamp to measure amperage and a dmm to measure voltage, but we just say we are going to clamp it. Based on his numbers I'd say that everthing is correct and he did do it the way he was supposed to. It would be bst if he were to jump in here and explain exactly how he went about getting the voltage and current readings that he got.