stinger accum match

[scrappy 10+ year member]

http://cgi.ebay.com/STINGER-ACCUMATCH-1200-adjust-the-ohm-load-for-your-amp_W0QQitemZ5799419198QQcategoryZ18797QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Here is the link. What do you guys think of this. Does it really work? Has anyone tried it? Would this work when strapping two am,ps together to make a 1 ohm load instead of 2

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[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Never heard of it. I'd rather just buy the correct subs.

Only one way to find out if it works...

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Like CJ, I've never heard of it. But after reading the description of the thing's alleged abilities I laughed out loud.

If you buy it and it works feel free to tell me I was wrong.

 

[scrappy 10+ year member]

I was doubting that it would work. I was trying to figure out how it could do that. Im not going to be the one to try it out sorry to tell you that. I was really searching for road kill when I found that.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

it says stinger. but was a JL. meh seems dumb

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

Yes it works, you can match loads up or down which ever you need. Is is big transformer with taps at different points in the coil. The one on ebay was the largest made. It was built to take the high power of sub amps. By the way I have one for sale also. I used it on an hcca. We measured the voltages and it worked just fine.

 

[scrappy 10+ year member]

why is it for sale if it works? What did you use it for to go up or to go down?

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Oops.

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

why is it for sale if it works? What did you use it for to go up or to go down?

Maybe he was testing, or maybe he bought an amp that matches the impedance of his driver, or maybe a lot of things, why don't you buy components that match well with eachother rather than ones that dont.

 

[scrappy 10+ year member]

Maybe he was testing, or maybe he bought an amp that matches the impedance of his driver, or maybe a lot of things, why don't you buy components that match well with eachother rather than ones that dont.

What are you talking about I do. I have a 1200.1 and two L7 that are d4 so that makes it a 1 ohm load. It was just a question of if this works and how it would if it did. Obviously alot of people had never heard of it and thought it wouldnt work as I did

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

The concept is nothing new. It's an impedance matching transformer.

I've never used on personally, but I've heard both good and bad about them. They were big on the competition scene around '95 IIRC. However, it fizzled out before the end of the year and Stinger eventually dropped them (which should tell you something //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif ).

Some people like them, some people don't. Most common complaints were induced noise, distortion, "weakening" of the sound, the transformer would give out and/or damage the sub/speaker, etc etc.

Veritas had some aswell (exact same thing as the Stingers, just a different label).

 

[scrappy 10+ year member]

So they are around ten years odl then.I was just curious as to how it worked. I wont be buying one anytime soon. Thanks for the replys

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

induced voltage spikes and just because the amp produces power doesnt mean all if it makes it to the speaker cleanly i have a test of them by david navone i do believe in a 10 yr old mag. reason people liked them or were so curious of them was back then we were stuck with 8 ohm and 4 ohm mids and highs and our amps were of the high current a/b design so we had to load them down to get all the power. alot of amps more than doubled their said power rating into 2 ohm loads and the "classes" they had 51-150 watts and 151-300 watts were probably the most expensive classes to be in (cheater type amps were expensive as compared to regular 200- 600 watt amps) and when all was said and done the "lowwer watt cars were at least as powerful as the 600+ watt cars lol

 

[thch 10+ year member]

these were used in amps since the tube amp days. i even have an early solid-state transformer coupled amp...

transformers can saturate, limit bandwidth, increase output impedance, and other bad things, and were generally concidered undesirable (but sometimes necessary) for hi-fi audio.

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

why is it for sale if it works? What did you use it for to go up or to go down?

Because I sold the HCCA years ago. The accumatch got tossed in a closet with other assorted stuff. I used it to drop the load so the HCCA would give its full power to the subs I had at the time.