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<blockquote data-quote="ngsm13" data-source="post: 4645385" data-attributes="member: 544830"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 36px">"Clipping has nothing to do with the dc voltage going to your amp. Clipping is the square wave of your RCA input signal, when you turn your volume all the way up you will get a dirty signal. Running that amp at .5ohm (which is really .35) is causing it to attempt to put out more current, than voltage. When you do this it will cause the coils to fail. More current is a bad thing, it's simple ohms law...</span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 36px"> </span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 36px">Impedance (resistance) goes down, Voltage goes down, and Current (heat) goes up...causing failure."</span></strong></p><p></p><p>nG</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ngsm13, post: 4645385, member: 544830"] [B][SIZE=36px]"Clipping has nothing to do with the dc voltage going to your amp. Clipping is the square wave of your RCA input signal, when you turn your volume all the way up you will get a dirty signal. Running that amp at .5ohm (which is really .35) is causing it to attempt to put out more current, than voltage. When you do this it will cause the coils to fail. More current is a bad thing, it's simple ohms law...[/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=36px] [/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=36px]Impedance (resistance) goes down, Voltage goes down, and Current (heat) goes up...causing failure."[/SIZE][/B] nG [/QUOTE]
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