ohm load on Ma Audio amp

If you wire the coils in parallel, this would make a 1/2 ohm load wich would be FAR into unsafe territory (4 TIMES the already unsafe load recommended by the manufacturer), and this makes me believe you don't understand enough about impedances and Ohm's Law. Please read as much of this website as you can...

I realized my error about what ohm load I am running. I still want to know what kind of power the amp will make at 1/2 ohm load....I was hoping someone with Ma audio amplifier experience could let me know what experience they have had with their amps...As many people know, not all amps are created equal. I have had many amps that were only rated at 4 ohms that performed flawlessly at 1 ohm or less. I was just wondering if anyone else had tried it before and what experience they had before I rewiRED / fried a $750 amp. I would only be running the amp under these conditions long enough to get a meter reading at the next NSPL competition. It would be reverted back to 2ohm operation for ride around purposes. Thanks.

Probably zero, as it will most likely shut down in protection or fry at that load.  Mobile Authority amps are not very robust, in general.

Thats' funny.. After almost 2 weeks I finally received a reply from MA's tech department. The tech guy assured me that with the protection removed the amp would easily run all day a .5 ohm. The question remains the same now as it did 5 hours ago..Just pretend my Mobile Authority amp is a "robust" high end unit capable of producing 3600watts at 2ohms and 14.4volts. Now approximately how much wattage will it produce at .5 ohm load.

You will have to measure it, as the answer is not a math equation.  Perhaps the MA tech can fill you in with that info too.

I'll explain it like this for those who will read this thread:  say, you have an amp that has been measured by the factory and rated at 2 ohms and at 4 ohms.  You can figure the output in between those ratings, and you can figure the output at a higher load than 4 ohms.  But to figure the output at a lower load is just guessing because you don't know what the limitations of the amp's rail voltage are.  You can't assume that if the rating at 2 ohms is whatever, that the output at 1 ohm is double that.  Or that the output at 1/2 ohm is double the 1 ohm rating.  You could find....by measuring....that the output at 1 ohm is the same as it is at 2 ohm or  maybe just a bit more.

Limitations imposed by the amplifier build.  And generally, putting a load on any amplifier that is lower than the lowest power rating given by the manufacturer is a bad idea.  Cheater amps, that is, those that are well known, are the exceptions to the rule.  But be sure.

Thank you, that is as close as I have come all day to getting an answer to my question...Would you be willing to tell me how I could measure it? I really don't want to wait another 2 weeks to get a reply from MA. In their last reply all they did was tell me it would work and sent me a diagram showing what resistors to remove to kill the protection. I came to this site for help, not to be told how dumb I am when it comes to car audio and how bad my choice of amplifier was......

"To be, rather than to seem.."

Relax, David.  Your attitude is showing.

Measure the output at the speaker terminals in AC volts.  Use Ohm's Law to find power given the two knowns that you will now know:  voltage and impedance load.  P = E^2 / R

It's accurate to do this with a bench test, but doing it in the car will get you close.  And keep the sub unhooked while you do it.  Use a 50 Hz test tone recorded at 0 db.  But you should have first found the point of clipping with the tone and the sub hooked up.  Unhooking the sub to measure voltage just takes the strain off the sub while you're doing the voltage test, because it's not necessary to hear the tone at this time.