brahma power handling

[honkyg 10+ year member]

can anyone give me a ballpark at how much juice i can throw at (1) 12" brahma mkIV d2 in 2.75 cu. in ported box tuned to approx. 35hz? i need some numbers crunched to figure out my amp purchase and i thought id start here,... specs say 600rms, but i cant find any literature on the variables

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[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

600w maybe?

 

[honkyg 10+ year member]

thats rms in a 1.5 sealed enclosure, sorry, was a little vague with the explaination, i know they can handle upwords of 4k+ in small burps, but im not looking for anything that extreme until i have the capital and the means to replace em, right now im only runnin bout 700 watts max per sub @ 13.5 volts using an hcca d2400@2ohm,.... id like to buy another hcca to bring both drivers down to one ohm each, just need input to figure out if i want to take that route

 

[honkyg 10+ year member]

bump

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

The coils are really not that big so I probably wouldn't recommend giving them much more then whatever they are rated for... I'd say 600-800 watts sounds about right...

 

[honkyg 10+ year member]

The coils are really not that big so I probably wouldn't recommend giving them much more then whatever they are rated for... I'd say 600-800 watts sounds about right...

idk, 2.5" coils with xbl2, i guess if i really want to know ill need to bring my amp down to 1ohm and power a single driver for a burp or 2 to see if itll handle it with the gain all the way down, the driver specs say upwords of 1200w rms depending on the application, im just fishin' to see if anyone else has had experience with the brahma and wut kind of power applied

 

[negative3five 10+ year member]

Umm y would burp that sub? it's nothing like the mk1 or mk2 I have 1 n I wouldn't throw more then 600-800 watts rms to it.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

upto 800rms clean

 

[BASS_WARRIOR 10+ year member]

Yeah the MkIV's aren't tanks like the MKI and MKII were. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

I wouldn't do more then 800.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Wiggins was notorious for rating their subs at the breaking point. Hence why the Brahma IV was a huge flop- everyone gave them what Dan said they would handle (1200w) and ended up breaking them, when in all reality it was a 600w sub.

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[honkyg 10+ year member]

ill build a few diff ported boxes at various volumes and tuning, as well as a few sealed, its gonna be trial and error, but i need to find what works well for a 98 stang