wiring 100 drivers

[Rainman215]

Lmao that would be something to see. When the time comes I'll try and help if I can.

[EclipseChris]

I'd go a bit higher than 4 if you can.

Rise is the upper fluctuation level of your active variable resistive load (its the maximum excursion level of the coil in the magnetic gap).. say you attach a 1 ohm driver to an amp. It will have a high and a low peak. If you want to use "rise" to make more power you do it for burps in SPL. You dont do it for daily.

Given the number of drivers you are using i'd maybe shoot for a bit higher than 4 ohms, though technically tweeters dont fluctuate their resistive value as bad as a subwoofer with a coil that jumps around in the gap a lot I guess.

I am not a burp guy, all the rise talk was said by others because i don't really know anything about it. Im thinking about making it 4 ohm for all 100 or 8 for just 50. Its going to be a lot of trial and error.

And Nate, you got any 8 gauge?

Im sure you will get to help, i'm gonna try to get a ton of help.

[bkolfo4]

Let me just say thanks for making this thread. All the talk about rise along with the explanations made it a nice laugh for the day.

Good luck with the project!

[EclipseChris]

Let me just say thanks for making this thread. All the talk about rise along with the explanations made it a nice laugh for the day.

Good luck with the project!

Haha thanks i guess?

This thread is the reason Boon made that rant.

[moetpoppin]

fiberglassed and matte black door panels? I think that would look sick

question tho....

what are you gonna do for mids then? haha

[moetpoppin]

makes me think of this...

[justinadams]

omg eclipse chris. if this works i'm gonna be fuckin amazed. plus if you succeed, i think you'll be the first with door panels that have so many fuckin tweets.

[EclipseChris]

fiberglassed and matte black door panels? I think that would look sick

question tho....

what are you gonna do for mids then? haha

Tweets in doors and mids in the back panels. Eclipse is a 2 door. I wanna find mids like the 10's that trippi used and glass 2 or 4 in each side.

omg eclipse chris. if this works i'm gonna be fuckin amazed. plus if you succeed, i think you'll be the first with door panels that have so many fuckin tweets.

Haha thats the point

And just in doors im going to have 200 drivers

[hdorre]

I'm sure you know this, but you'll need either a ton of less powerful mids or a few really powerful ones. Do I see 8" level 2s for mids? Nah, you'll need friggen level 4s to compensate all those tweets..haha

[P4killer_]

I'd go a bit higher than 4 if you can.

Rise is the upper fluctuation level of your active variable resistive load (its the maximum excursion level of the coil in the magnetic gap).. say you attach a 1 ohm driver to an amp. It will have a high and a low peak. If you want to use "rise" to make more power you do it for burps in SPL. You dont do it for daily.

Given the number of drivers you are using i'd maybe shoot for a bit higher than 4 ohms, though technically tweeters dont fluctuate their resistive value as bad as a subwoofer with a coil that jumps around in the gap a lot I guess.

Just in a simpler view, the subs fluctuate in resistance due to like above, how the woofer is made and the enclosure can effect rise as well. When you wire say a dual 2 ohm sub in parallel down to 1 ohm and put that to your amp.

Your amp when everything is turned off and still etc. your amp will see that 1 ohm load. this is called nominal load ie:. when nothing is playing etc, just wired up.

When your music is playing the sub moves, and the actual impedence moves too its not 1 ohm like before, its changing every second. the easiest way to see this is to just plug your sub to a dmm and is read 4ohm or 2ohm or w.e and gently push on the sub moving it and you will see that your dmm will now show different readings..

Why to consider rise:Well for the everyday bump in your trunk, it doesnt matter, but for serious/ competition ppl it matters.

Amps are rated for certain power at certain ohm loads. ie:. 1000w @ 1ohm. So when your wire your amp up at 1ohm and check the impedence at a certain frequency , it will likely come out to be more than 1ohm maybe less, b/c like above impedence changes.

People in comps trying to burp the loudest score take rise into account.. will wire thier amps up nominal to like .5ohm, .25ohm something low and when they burp, rise will bring their impedence up to 1 ohm for instance, so their amps can put out max power. because say a 10kw amp wired at 1ohm nominal will see higher than 1 ohm during the burp and put out less than 10kw so thier trying to get the most out of thier amps for that 3-5 sec burp.

Many amps are not really made to be wired soo low and you could fry the amp so unless you know what your doing just stay with what its rated at. also rise doesnt really matter for music as the impedence always changes and while you might see a little more power on music, competeors look to see a significant amount of extra power at a certain frequency.

Also figuring out what your amp is seeing impendence wise, what is putting out power wise, what your rise actually is, is called a clamp test, youll need a dmm , and a clamp meter, a guide can be found in the amp section iirc.

Geez sorry for the long post, im lost and dont even remember what i said really, if im wrong please correct me, maybe i missed something or mixed something up, but thats basically it.

P4

edit: what impendence the amp sees while playing is called reactive.

And whether amp companies rate their amps power @ 1ohm for example, is based on a nominal load, or reactive load i have no idea