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<blockquote data-quote="The Camry" data-source="post: 8534963" data-attributes="member: 657974">Lol. The only good amps i know that run uncomfortably hot are the alpine PDX amps. Many people talk about hot they qre but dont seem to have an issue. If you are having issues with amps getting to hot and failing. Its most likely because they are bargain brand amps, because they have too small of power wire going to them, because the gains are set wrong and are sending the amp into protect, because they are very old and have failing components, or they are running too low of a ohm load.Basically an amp should be a plug and play product. Run the correct size wire, set the gains right and hook up some speakers. You should never have to do external mods to amps.When I say pros do it. What im referencing is that back in the 90s. Installs were judged at events just as much as the actual audio quality so people would do weird and crazy stuff to their amps to make them stand out but it was never anything but&nbsp; aesthetics.As for how nuclear plants work. Their water cooling is way different.&nbsp; Think about how a computer cooling system works. Its basically abunch of fans. If you get a nice cpu cooler. Its a 1/4thick piece if aluminum plate mounted directly ontop of the cpu and then has a huge aluminum fin heatsink with hollow(filled with air) copper pipes going through it. Its maximizing surface area to increase heat dissipation.That is essentially what you&#039;d be doing to the mosfets. Run a bus bar to each mosfet. Have the busbar have running water over it and you have cooling. Pointless but if you wanted to do it. Thats how.Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Camry, post: 8534963, member: 657974"] Lol. The only good amps i know that run uncomfortably hot are the alpine PDX amps. Many people talk about hot they qre but dont seem to have an issue. If you are having issues with amps getting to hot and failing. Its most likely because they are bargain brand amps, because they have too small of power wire going to them, because the gains are set wrong and are sending the amp into protect, because they are very old and have failing components, or they are running too low of a ohm load. Basically an amp should be a plug and play product. Run the correct size wire, set the gains right and hook up some speakers. You should never have to do external mods to amps. When I say pros do it. What im referencing is that back in the 90s. Installs were judged at events just as much as the actual audio quality so people would do weird and crazy stuff to their amps to make them stand out but it was never anything but aesthetics. As for how nuclear plants work. Their water cooling is way different. Think about how a computer cooling system works. Its basically abunch of fans. If you get a nice cpu cooler. Its a 1/4thick piece if aluminum plate mounted directly ontop of the cpu and then has a huge aluminum fin heatsink with hollow(filled with air) copper pipes going through it. Its maximizing surface area to increase heat dissipation. That is essentially what you'd be doing to the mosfets. Run a bus bar to each mosfet. Have the busbar have running water over it and you have cooling. Pointless but if you wanted to do it. Thats how. Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]

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