power issue

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Topic: power issue

Posted By: efx3307
Subject: power issue
Date Posted: February 07, 2008 at 7:33 PM

Can i run an alpine type S sub with a hifonics 6006 amp or is it to much?

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Bentley

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: February 07, 2008 at 8:03 PM

How old are you? What size is the Type S sub? What is the impedance of the voice coil(s) of the woofer? How much power is the amp rated at?

Posted By: jmelton86
Date Posted: February 07, 2008 at 8:20 PM

i am an idiot wrote:

How old are you?

Oh, man! I nearly choked!!! posted_image

I think i am an idiot thinks all young cats jack the gains all the way up. Well, it makes sense...

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Posted By: aznboi3644
Date Posted: February 07, 2008 at 8:23 PM

"hear it.feel it.see it. XPLOD"

must be a young gun. You can run a tweeter on that amp...just depends on your settings

Posted By: efx3307
Date Posted: February 07, 2008 at 10:01 PM

haha anyway....the sub is a 12 with 2 ohm voice coils..amp is rated at 14.4 600 rms bridged or 150x2 rms...any idea on how much the gain should b turned up...quarter inch less than half way?

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Bentley

Posted By: Walkercustoms
Date Posted: February 07, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Tune by voltage before clipping.

Posted By: n2audio
Date Posted: February 08, 2008 at 10:36 AM

the amp's gain is set relative to the HU's pre-amp voltage, but with a 300w sub you would definitely want to be conservative with the gain.

once you get it all wired, set the amp's filter switch to LP/BP, set the hi pass dial to ~20, the low pass dial to ~80 and the level to 6v. Put in a cd that represents the typical style of bass you listen to and increase the gain until the sub starts to sound muddy - then back it off slightly. That should give you a pretty good base line gain position. You can reduce it, but don't go up much from that point.

If you use the bass EQ, don't use much.

Posted By: efx3307
Date Posted: February 08, 2008 at 1:38 PM

is 6v all the way down? I listen to a lot of rap an some hits pretty low and hard should i set the gain on one of these songs

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Bentley

Posted By: efx3307
Date Posted: February 08, 2008 at 1:46 PM

if I set the gain correctly i should be able to run it bridged right? Thanks for all the feedback.

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Bentley