Alpine Type-R daily rms

[The Ste 10+ year member]

750w is a pretty fair estimate for a long and continuous amount of time. As you increase the power, that amount of time will decrease. If you have good judgement with a volume knob (knowing when to turn it down) then you can run a lot of power to them daily.

I have 2 type-rs that are running on just under 500W RMS each now , but i want to free up some space in my boot. I was thinking of getting rid of one of them and just running one with my old amp which pushes 700W RMS in a bigger ported box.

So you reckon that this will be ok for daily driving as long as i dont get too crazy on the vloume/gain?

 

[eboutin88 10+ year member]

About 700-750rms is all a R 12 will take daily for music.
If you're planning on just doing a Bassrace run or burping it, I know they can do a solid 2,000rms for 30 seconds, and some more for a burp.

What it can take depends on the enclosure, but that should be a good guideline.

A buddy of mine got 2 Type Rs and we tested them in a couple different boxes and alot of different amounts of power. Id say about 600-650rms is good for a solid daily setup that wont blow any subs.

We tried about 1,900rms per sub and even though it was loud, we just kept frying subs, even when we werent pushing them that hard. Just flat out wayyyyyyy too much power.

I agree, I had a MMats D3500.1 running both of mine and they only lasted a couple of weeks. I only had the volume at 20/33 on my clarion unit and they litterally caught on fire after 2 minutes of driving. I was quite dissapointed. I think that 750 - 800 watts would be a perfect match for these subs. Any more and they will be destroyed. Although, they hit descent. In my G6, I hit a 145.9, not bad for a trunk car with pastic hard back seats.