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<blockquote data-quote="sundownz" data-source="post: 3065167" data-attributes="member: 549523"><a href="http://www.sundownaudio.com/misc/CIMG1519.AVI" target="_blank">http://www.sundownaudio.com/misc/CIMG1519.AVI</a>As a heads up... the 1500D can exceed it&#039;s 1500 watt rating. If you do the math that is around 2200 watts or so with battery voltage dipping as low as 11.5 volts. It wasn&#039;t adjusted for distortion, but still sounds fine on an actual bass track rather than tones -- at least I wasn&#039;t able to hear much added distortion over the insanely loud bass coming from the test setup <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />What you see is my test bench... 50 amp Pyramid power supply, Kinetik 2400, Duralast 1000CA battery, 2x SI Mags all in parallel @ 0.6 ohms measured DCR at the end of the speaker wire. Fluke AC current meter used for output voltage and current, Sears DMM used to show power supply voltage. Calculated impedance rise of 1.08 ohms @ 55 Hz.So... careful with those gains and that volume control //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sundownz, post: 3065167, member: 549523"] [URL="http://www.sundownaudio.com/misc/CIMG1519.AVI"]http://www.sundownaudio.com/misc/CIMG1519.AVI[/URL] As a heads up... the 1500D can exceed it's 1500 watt rating. If you do the math that is around 2200 watts or so with battery voltage dipping as low as 11.5 volts. It wasn't adjusted for distortion, but still sounds fine on an actual bass track rather than tones -- at least I wasn't able to hear much added distortion over the insanely loud bass coming from the test setup :p What you see is my test bench... 50 amp Pyramid power supply, Kinetik 2400, Duralast 1000CA battery, 2x SI Mags all in parallel @ 0.6 ohms measured DCR at the end of the speaker wire. Fluke AC current meter used for output voltage and current, Sears DMM used to show power supply voltage. Calculated impedance rise of 1.08 ohms @ 55 Hz. So... careful with those gains and that volume control [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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