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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 3142809" data-attributes="member: 561023"><p>With a DMM (<strong>d</strong>igital <strong>m</strong>ulti-<strong>m</strong>eter)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Your average car audio amplifier is designed to operate at its best when fed between 12.0 and 14.6 volts DC current or thereabouts.</p><p></p><p>If your vehicle does not have a sufficient charging system to maintain the overall voltage at 12.0vdc or above the amp will either struggle incredibly trying to create the output it is designed to create but doing so with an insufficient current input. This can eventually toast the amp as it strains more than its tolerances allow for and premature unit failure will be the sad result.</p><p></p><p>Either that or it will simply throw itself into protection mode and refuse to come out of hiding until you make the necessary charging system upgrades...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 3142809, member: 561023"] With a DMM ([B]d[/B]igital [B]m[/B]ulti-[B]m[/B]eter) Your average car audio amplifier is designed to operate at its best when fed between 12.0 and 14.6 volts DC current or thereabouts. If your vehicle does not have a sufficient charging system to maintain the overall voltage at 12.0vdc or above the amp will either struggle incredibly trying to create the output it is designed to create but doing so with an insufficient current input. This can eventually toast the amp as it strains more than its tolerances allow for and premature unit failure will be the sad result. Either that or it will simply throw itself into protection mode and refuse to come out of hiding until you make the necessary charging system upgrades... [/QUOTE]
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