MTX Thunder 1501D advice and help WITHIN 30 MINS

[TMali 10+ year member]

think im going to pick up a MTX Thunder 1501D, since i was sold a bad massive audio amp, to finish up my system. now i have been looking a bit into it and not too many places say its 1 ohm stable. is it? its the older model and im gettin it for $100

what do you guys think?

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[2lo2flo 10+ year member]

Its not rated to be 1 ohm stable...

 

[TMali 10+ year member]

Its not rated to be 1 ohm stable...

i said within 30 mins... but i bought it

got him for 80 and its in nice shape, and i read that there 1 ohm moddifiable

http://caraudio.com/forum/amplifiers/157043-mtx-1501d-question.html

Take the cover plate off the amp. Over on the side of the amp is a little push button (circuitry protection button) press the button to where it is UN- depressed. It is out NOT in. Look down towards the bottom of the board about in the middle and look for the Q 240 resistor. MAKE SURE it's the Q 240 resistor. Get you a soildering gun and heat it up just enough to loosen up the Q 240 resistor. I used a pair of tweezers and pulled the resistor out very carefully. Then Wha-La you are now 1 ohm and will roughly crank out 1800w rms at 14.4v. Place the cover back on and it is time to wake up your neigborhood. Good luck with itRock On. Later......

 

[l7runner 10+ year member]

good price...but I think it has to be modded to handle 1ohm

 

[kr15 5,000+ posts]

good amp tho. those amps were usually rated at 12.8

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

ive ran these extensivly.....they'll do 1ohm for about 30min of hard abuse at 12v before getting hot enough to need some rest, mod or not. IF you can maintain 14v they'll run cooler and last longer. I tell you what they'll get hot as HELL with all that abuse but it'll take a few months of this daily abuse before they cook. just dont be suprised when you feel like you can cook eggs off their heat sink. 2 ohms they run as normal and will last probably forever. 1/2 ohm burps are good for about 20-30 sec but any more you're pushing your luck.

but for 80 bucks you got a SWWWEEETTT deal man. I paid around 300 each about 5 years ago and was happy with the way they took the punishing abuse. Between the large amounts of current pushed through them and the hot FL sun beating down on them they didn't get much rest.

IMO i would look out for another one and eventually snag a 2nd and daisy chain them for 2.5kw //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif that was my first 2kw+ and they did AWESOME off 2 red tops and a 90 amp stock alty.

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

on a side note. the "mod" doesn't actually effect the ohm load protection circuit. it disables the the voltage protection cicuit so that you can run 16-18v on it. i ran mine at 1ohm "unmodded" with little issue other than heat