yeah.... your ads not exactly true... it's only 1000rms at 1ohm... unless your birth certificate says 1500rms.. which is a shitload. Usually an amps actual power is only <100 more than quoted...
and aside from that, it wouldn't blow 'any' sub away... it'd blow away the cheaper, less power hungry ones... the more expensive, more power hungry ones, it'd have trouble.
I'm sure that the previous generation which were silver not black where rated at 1500, but when tested only made 1200.
So they dropped the rating to 1000
your probably right champ!
jaycar are not a bad amp.
if you want the continious RMS @ 14.4v you will need a farid cap. as it tends to heat up and drops it power eventually. (depends on how loud your subwoffa is turned up!)
Just run a nice big battery with thick power wire and upgraded engine bay grounds.
im running massive power/gnd/speaker/remote cables and my battery is a 660cc 15plates for commodore v8s and i still loose power if i crank up the volume to midway - the cars power seems like it wants to shut down. Then i bought a farid capacitor and eliminated the current/voltage drop issue and got to pump it up hard!
i noticed without the farid, the voltage dropped to 12.4v supplied power to the amp which caused it to overwork and heat up too quick. Once the farid was in - continuous 14.4v without any voltage drop supply to the amp! win!
im using soundstream tarantula monoblock PCA-2000D. matched with Soundstream X3-122 5000W X3 Sub -Dual 2 Ohm
rated at: 1 x 2000RMS @ 4ohms (14.4v)
you can feel and hear the bass from a street away ..LOL
In my old car I was running Alpine PDX series. I had a monoblock that was birthsheeted at 1300wrms. A 4 channel that was sheeted at 4x180wrms and a 2 channel that was 2x180wrms.
2380 wrms all up, I was running an optima deep cycle marine battery. The d31 blue top. 900cca
With a single 0ga running to the back, and a single 0ga earth I never had any problems with headlight dimming or power shortage. And you could hear it from blocks away.
In my old car I was running Alpine PDX series. I had a monoblock that was birthsheeted at 1300wrms. A 4 channel that was sheeted at 4x180wrms and a 2 channel that was 2x180wrms.
2380 wrms all up, I was running an optima deep cycle marine battery. The d31 blue top. 900cca
With a single 0ga running to the back, and a single 0ga earth I never had any problems with headlight dimming or power shortage. And you could hear it from blocks away.
wow that battery is a monster... is that the gel/cell type odyssey type batteries? u knw the maintenance free ones?>
man i need to get one of those batteries
yeh it must be my battery or alternator not being able to keep up with the huge supply/requirement of the amp.
the farken amp weighs like 10kgs - and the sub alone is like almost 20kg.. lol wtf
def my ride is just for sounds and not for JDM rice or racing etc.
Originally Posted by CRXDEL501
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