*amplifiers/power ratings*

[propower]

you put all those do's down for me how nice of you!

 

[General SC 10+ year member]

BAMM! There ya go... if its not there, you're square!

 

[LBX2G 10+ year member]

That is cool that you did that. It is very helpful,

why, cus i am lazy as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jonahdude 10+ year member]

That's all you the amps you could come up with? SLACKER!

 

[Scarenius 10+ year member]

Amp ratings at normal volume (in my experience)

Example 1: Legacy LA120 240 watt amplifier

Take the rated power:

Divide by the number of speaker outs(2): 120watts

Divide by half for nominal power: 60watts

Divide by Ohms(4) : 15watts

Divide for amp efficiency, which will NEVER be 100%, in this case, around 70%: 10.5watts!

OMG You never saw that coming!! I tested this peticular amp, and it did around 12 watts.

Example 2: Power Acoustik ov2 1200

Add the numbers on the fuses and multiply by 10 (600)

divide by number of channels(2): 300

Divide by 2 for nominal power: 150watts!

At normal volume, and 65% gain mine does around 60 watts per channel. If I give it hell, it does 474.6 per channel, which is 175 watts higher than advertised. This was tested with a multimeter, not load resistors and sinewaves, don't quote me.

Never assume just because you have a 4000 watt amplifier that you're getting 4000 watts. It's all relative.

 

[KraPP M0dZ]

what does the MA Audio M486i put out per channel

 

[swank 10+ year member]

whoa... excellent guys.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

What an odd thread to find after being woken up by the 2yr old.

A great many of the units you have listed are shown with their peak output rating... which we all know is a pretty useless number... so... why?

Not flaming, just curious

EDIT: And now that I see how old this thread originally was I'm fairly sure I won't get an answer so n/m!

 

[swank 10+ year member]

Serves as as great information in a sellers point of view and as well listed dates of the amps in which they were released which is always interesting. Good to know my excelon xac-301t has been pounding away half ohm stable since 1999. Time to set it aside again and play with the memphis AR-HC100

EDIT: What do you think forums are for? Information sharing. Wildcard search in google on the memphis amp i just picked up lead me to a few old threads. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Not going to lie...

This thread was useless.

 

[GAM3OVR 5,000+ posts]

who cares about peak fu*k power?

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

you fail for bumping an old thread

 

[GAM3OVR 5,000+ posts]

you fail for bumping an old thread

man, you must have no life......

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

man, you must have no life......

i'm not the one looking up old threads and bumping them.