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[Anonymous User 10+ year member]

would a Earthquake PHD2000W over power 2 Earthquake TremorXR-12's?

heres the specs thier site lists.

PHD2000W

Number of channels: 1 / Mono Block

Max power output: 2000 Watts

RMS power 2-ohm: 1000 Watts

RMS power 4-ohm stereo: 500 Watts

Damping factor: >800

Cross over slopes: 24dB/OCT

THD: >0.016

SNR: 104dB

Class: "D" Digital

Speaker connection: 10-Gauge

Recommended

power connection: 4-Gauge

Input type: Independent Low Level RCA

heres the specs on the subs....

MODEL: TremorXR-12

* 800 watts

* Fs = 27Hz

* Qms = 5.3508

* Qes = 0.7217

* Qts = 0.6359

* VAS = 2.40Ft

* Xmax = 0.5"

* 87dB 1W/1M

* Revc = 6.67

* Levc = 5.9mH @ (1 kHz)

* 2" Single Voice coil/8ohms

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[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

nope. being a single 8 ohm sub that amp will only give it 500 watts or so. anyways just because an amp says 2000 watts, doesn't mean that sub will see 2000 watts

 

[pjm2211 10+ year member]

you got the wrong ohm subs for that amp.

 

[Anonymous User 10+ year member]

you got the wrong ohm subs for that amp.

how did i get the wrong ohm for the amp? i could wire them up parallel and it would have a 4ohm load? so if it has a 4ohm load, that means each sub would get 500watts each? or what?

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

how did i get the wrong ohm for the amp? i could wire them up parallel and it would have a 4ohm load? so if it has a 4ohm load, that means each sub would get 500watts each? or what?

correct. sorry i didn't see you had 2 subs

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

how did i get the wrong ohm for the amp? i could wire them up parallel and it would have a 4ohm load? so if it has a 4ohm load, that means each sub would get 500watts each? or what?

You can wire the two subs down to 4 ohms, this would give them both a total of 500 watts.

 

[Anonymous User 10+ year member]

ok, i just wanted to make sure. someone told me my amp would over power my subs, and it can damage them

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

nope. being a single 8 ohm sub that amp will only give it 500 watts or so. anyways just because an amp says 2000 watts, doesn't mean that sub will see 2000 watts

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[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

no such thing. you can never blow a speaker as long as the speaker doesn't see frequencies it isn't supposed to see and that the amp is not getting excessive clipping. if you avoid those two, most of the time you will never blow a speaker.

 

[Anonymous User 10+ year member]

^^^ohhh, i always heard this and that about blowing speakers and stuff. and it has always been about the sub getting more watts then thier RMS. thanks for the info and thanks everyone for your help. your helping out a n00b right now to car audio.

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

So my old kicker solobaric rounds could take 10,000w as long as they were bandpassed hp 50 lp 40 (to avoid any unwanted frequencies) and play fine?

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

So my old kicker solobaric rounds could take 10,000w as long as they were bandpassed hp 50 lp 40 (to avoid any unwanted frequencies) and play fine?

yep as long as it not excessively clipping and not playing at dangerously loud volumes, then yes.

 

[Nightfall 10+ year member]

yep as long as it not excessively clipping and not playing at dangerously loud volumes, then yes.

I refuse to believe that.

Show me a video of a radioshack sub taking 10Kw under the circumstances that you just provided.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

I refuse to believe that.
Show me a video of a radioshack sub taking 10Kw under the circumstances that you just provided.

lol. tell me how its gonna blow? the reason being so many people blow their speakers is the reasons stated above. thats how i blew my tweets. easy, i could hook up a 10kw sub to any speaker and won't blow. i'll have the volume at 2/80 with the gain down. i just proved it. READ.

 

[Nightfall 10+ year member]

Ahh, I see what you are saying. I thought you were trying to imply that under certain circumstances any speaker could take any amount of power.