Subs That Can Handle 4K RMS or More

[Brian Owens 10+ year member]

Why don't you just wait for the new AA SMD subs? 4" coil. . .rated 3500 RMS.

Brian

 

[shavenblazer 10+ year member]

I play a lot of songs with constant bass notes, so they might as well be tones. Juice Box, What You Gonna Do, etc. I remember playing songs like that on a BTL with a Crunch GP3000D. Smelled after about a minute.

I play alot of gorilla zoe songs and my btl off my saz3000 got warm but i never smelled it and i play my music hard.

 

[mazzasec 5,000+ posts]

I play a lot of songs with constant bass notes, so they might as well be tones. Juice Box, What You Gonna Do, etc. I remember playing songs like that on a BTL with a Crunch GP3000D. Smelled after about a minute.

What was your electrical on that GP3000d? Those amps draw alot of current, so if your voltage was dropping low with that amp you were probably clipping. My friend had 2 15" BTLs off 2 Sundown 3000d's and they handled it all day long...

 

[Brian Owens 10+ year member]

I ran mine on 40.1's @ 0.5 ohms, maintain 13.5+ volts on the batteries.

Play a lot of heavy bass songs and never smell them.

 

[DDbump 10+ year member]

ask any subwoofer manufacture a 3" vc woofer can not sustain 4k+ daily for hrs on end, its way to hard to disperce the heat. only idiots like me like my music loud like that daily

 

[thorshammer1 10+ year member]

Agreed.

When will we see the NS-X series?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Why do you need to run 4kw to a single driver? I don't see the point in dragging every last inch of power handling from a sub, especially for daily use. Why not split up the power so it can play cool all day long?

 

[pd8731]

ask any subwoofer manufacture a 3" vc woofer can not sustain 4k+ daily for hrs on end, its way to hard to disperce the heat. only idiots like me like my music loud like that daily

That's what I've been suspecting from the beginning.

You people like to throw around the phrase "all day never had a problem" etc. I'm betting that if you clamped it, you aren't getting close to the RMS, and you are probably playing music with a very intermittent (sp?) beat. I am talking about playing a song with a constant bass tone for minutes at a time. To me, I define a continuous power handling rating as just that, continuous.

I also think users exaggerate the power handling of their sub a lot. I would say my BTL could handle a good 2250 watts on a constant tone. 3,000 watts I can't see it not overheating after about 30 seconds or so.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just think my definition of power handling and other people's are two different things. I speak from experience. People tell me all the time their subs (HDC3, LMS-5200, 5400, BTL, MT, forum boners, etc) can handle the amps they put on them (IMO too powerful for daily) and when I see them at comps after a bass race or 30 seconds into a demo their car reeks of coil.

 

[RE_XXX]

Well.....your right.... rms fluctuates from impedance rise. which is always changing with heat and movement.

I say 4500+ to the HW cause I have a 5750.1 with 15 volts goin to it... thats more than 5500 rms daily //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

But with impedance rise and blah blah blah.... its safe to say 4500+

 

[MTX520 10+ year member]

DC LVL 5?..nobody has said this sub yet..

 

[NDMstang65 10+ year member]

Well.....your right.... rms fluctuates from impedance rise. which is always changing with heat and movement.
I say 4500+ to the HW cause I have a 5750.1 with 15 volts goin to it... thats more than 5500 rms daily //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

But with impedance rise and blah blah blah.... its safe to say 4500+

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10 bucks says your no where near that kind of power //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

 

[RE_XXX]

DC LVL 5?..nobody has said this sub yet..

Not a high rms daily subwoofer.... but a good one.

 

[Cravingbass123]

get a Squeakinator and be done with it OP

 

[RE_XXX]

60hz sine
clamp meter

volt meter

pictures

math

10 bucks says your no where near that kind of power //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

Hmmm........ my impedance rests @ .7... i havent clamped it yet to see my max impedance rise

 

[MTX520 10+ year member]

Not a high rms daily subwoofer.... but a good one.

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