whats that thing to test your amps peak power ?

[trunks9_us 10+ year member]

its there now, more of a joke though.

whats the difference btw the 1000$ and the 200$ one?

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

You don't need the $1000 one, lol. Big things are frequency range, number of inputs, memory, triggering options and the screen res and color. For setting an amplifiers gain, the features the $200 one has are still overkill, as it reads up to 10mhz, 500 times higher than a human can hear.

 

[trunks9_us 10+ year member]

You don't need the $1000 one, lol. Big things are frequency range, number of inputs, memory, triggering options and the screen res and color. For setting an amplifiers gain, the features the $200 one has are still overkill, as it reads up to 10mhz, 500 times higher than a human can hear.

ok so which one would i need link me one i would need so i dont waste money. or is the on someone linked to me before good for me?

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

ok so which one would i need link me one i would need so i dont waste money. or is the on someone linked to me before good for me?

There's no point in buying one if u don't even know what a sine wave is........

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

That Velleman would work perfectly, its the first one linked from partsexpress.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

There's no point in buying one if u don't even know what a sine wave is........

He can always learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_wave

 

[trunks9_us 10+ year member]

yes i can always learn.

 

[nauc 10+ year member]

i got this scope... $125

love it, easy as hell to use

http://www.elexp.com/tst_hhs5.htm

a scope will show you when the sound wave is clipped

all you have to do is unplug your speaker/sub, hook up the scope to the speaker wire or amp/deck and play a 50hz test tone for the lows and a 1khz test tone for your highs

just keep turning up the volume/amp gain until the wave starts to turn square

unclipped sound wave

clipped sound wave, the top and bottom of the wave become flat

read this too http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/areynol1/gain.htm

realm has 0db test tones in the download section

http://www.realmofexcursion.com/main.html

for more good links for newBs, look for my 2 post here, tons of info...

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=238243

 

[trunks9_us 10+ year member]

i got this scope... $125
love it, easy as hell to use

http://www.elexp.com/tst_hhs5.htm

a scope will show you when the sound wave is clipped

all you have to do is unplug your speaker/sub, hook up the scope to the speaker wire or amp/deck and play a 50hz test tone for the lows and a 1khz test tone for your highs

just keep turning up the volume/amp gain until the wave starts to turn square

unclipped sound wave

clipped sound wave, the top and bottom of the wave become flat

read this too http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/areynol1/gain.htm

realm has 0db test tones in the download section

http://www.realmofexcursion.com/main.html

for more good links for newBs, look for my 2 post here, tons of info...

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=238243

thx ill look into it.