how to amp strap?
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Topic: how to amp strap?
Posted By: srh23
Subject: how to amp strap?
Date Posted: February 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I am wondering about amp strapping. i have heard about it but i do not know very much about it. i currently have one kenwood excelon kac-x812d amplifier and i ahve another one being shipped to me right now. I want to run the amps with 2 pioneer premier 12" ts-3004 spl's which are dual 4 ohm subs 3000 watt max, 1000 watt RMS a peice.
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Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: February 24, 2008 at 11:33 PM
I dont believe that the kenwood amp u listed has a master/slave controls..... read over the manual and did not see anything though i could be wrong why not just run a amp to each sub.... cause u have to right ? would work out perfect being that the kenwood will put out 8-900 rms @ 2ohms ------------- If we learn from each success and
each failure, then we can improve ourselves
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: February 24, 2008 at 11:39 PM
I can't seem to find much info on that amp. Is it strappable? If an amp is 1 ohm stable, it's minimum strapped impedance is going to be 2 Ohms. If it is strappable you do not have the proper speakers to do it.
Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: February 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM
read the manual... and no go does not have a option to make it a master or a slave amp ------------- If we learn from each success and
each failure, then we can improve ourselves
Posted By: srh23
Date Posted: February 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Alright i was not sure and i am pretty sure it can have a slave amp becasue i read something about it in the manual but if you say the lowest impedance will be 2 ohms i wouldnt want that anyway. thank you for the posts.
Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: February 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM
well that amp is 1 ohm stable but it would not help ur setup ------------- If we learn from each success and
each failure, then we can improve ourselves
Posted By: srh23
Date Posted: February 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM
can you explain to me what amp strapping actually does?
Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: February 25, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Effectively, "strapping" does electrically the same thing as "bridging" does inside a stereo amplifier. It references the negative voltage rails of the two different amplifiers, and then inverts one of the positive input signals, allowing the load (the speaker) to be connected across the positive voltage rails.
There is a bit more to it than that, but that's the jist of it.
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: February 25, 2008 at 9:51 PM
We want the bit more.
Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: February 26, 2008 at 1:28 AM
i am an idiot wrote:
We want the bit more.
OK, lemme see if I can find some links to some articles! ------------- It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: February 26, 2008 at 4:24 AM
Yeah especially the part about the speaker connecting across the positive rails
We are still waiting on the Bit More!!!!
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