noble brown
Senior VIP Member
I'm doing something most people who know better would never do. But I do what I wanna. Jk, but seriously, I figure this is as good an opportunity to learn something as any.
So here's my sin. I have an old school mtx 81000d. It's lowest load rating is 2 ohms. Me, I run it at .5. It's pushing a 15" Zcon. It works indefinitely during winter but now that that's over it is going into a thermal protect when it is cranked. It is expected. I'm actually surprised I haven't fried it. I completely expected smoke when I first put it under a half ohm load. So now that this amp has my respect I'm curious. Is the thermal limit my only one in this case? I'm other words if I applied effort into some mods to keep it cool would this effectively expand its limits? Or is the thermal limitations further constrained by component specs? I mean I know they have there own limitations but are the thermal limitations of the amp going to be met before the individual components?
So here's my sin. I have an old school mtx 81000d. It's lowest load rating is 2 ohms. Me, I run it at .5. It's pushing a 15" Zcon. It works indefinitely during winter but now that that's over it is going into a thermal protect when it is cranked. It is expected. I'm actually surprised I haven't fried it. I completely expected smoke when I first put it under a half ohm load. So now that this amp has my respect I'm curious. Is the thermal limit my only one in this case? I'm other words if I applied effort into some mods to keep it cool would this effectively expand its limits? Or is the thermal limitations further constrained by component specs? I mean I know they have there own limitations but are the thermal limitations of the amp going to be met before the individual components?
