Clipping~ what exactly is it

[Joseph M 10+ year member]

Low voltage ? or how do you send a bad signal? i have a 3kd at .5 ohm, with volts dropping no lower than 12.6 at full tilt and i put a thread at ssa and asked on the BTL page if i was burning excess glue off or what it was. and he said i was "clipping the heck" out of it. so now i am curious since my volt dropps arent that low.

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[twisztdauthorit 10+ year member]

oh noes, hes been attacked by clipping

 

[eskimochaos 10+ year member]

IDK much about clipping, but voltage drops dont have anything to do with it.

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

http://bcae1.com/2ltlpwr.htm

 

[Joseph M 10+ year member]

its sending a bad signal but how exactly do you do it? im guessing running your deck with volume full tilt is bad anything else?

 

[twisztdauthorit 10+ year member]

IDK much about clipping, but voltage drops dont have anything to do with it.

oh but they do

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Clipping.... it came to my house. Disrespected my family.

 

[skateboardkid 10+ year member]

when your sine wave get the top and bottom squared off it is clipping.

So instead of your sub traveling linearly back and forth it stops at each peak for a fraction of a second and the coil heats up becasue it is not moving, if your coil can hadle it thermally nothing will happen.

Your gain is not a volume, it is there to match the input voltage, once your amp cant make any more clean power it, it starts clipping, which you can sometimes hear due to the non linear travel of the sub. Bet way to check for clipping is to use an O-scope and look at the waveform.

 

[MasterOfAllBass 10+ year member]

Clipping.... it came to my house. Disrespected my family.

lol

 

[GabeC 10+ year member]

Clipping came to my house, left a severed horse head on the foot of my bed.

 

[Joseph M 10+ year member]

my gain is a hair under half. but its still clipping?

 

[MasterOfAllBass 10+ year member]

my gain is a hair under half. but its still clipping?

get a dmm and set it right bud! theres a thread some where in here that tell you how to do so

 

[MasterOfAllBass 10+ year member]

Clipping came to my house and touched my dad sexualy!

 

[Speedbump3]

my gain is a hair under half. but its still clipping?

The orientation of the gain knob says nothing about it being set properly. Follow the guidelines posted on this forum for gain setting. /story

I grit my teeth every time someone says "I only have my gain halfway" or anything of that sort. That doesn't mean you matched your gain with the input.

 

[eskimochaos 10+ year member]

Clipping came to my house and touched my dad sexualy!

that was dragnix actually