And, does anyone have a pic of that nice amp enclosure with fans? Someone did a full install awhile back. Enclosed the amps in clear plexi and had fans moving air through the box. It looked real efficient.
OK, is this normal? Yesterday I accidentally left the stereo on for a couple of hours with the volume all the way down. When I found it on I heard the fans on the amps running. I touched them, and damn they were hot. Why would they do this with no load? Is this normal?
Anyone?
Normal except for class D.
Someone should build a high end amp with a water jacket. Water cooling would be great for car or boat. Holy cow... would it ever make sense to wick the heat away to a radiator and small electric fan to be dispensed into the atmosphere at a convenient location.
It wouldn't be that hard to fit your output ICs with waterblocks. Seriously.
I think they both had fans running. My subwoofer amp is a class D. But in my configuration it is heated up by the lower one which I have a heat problem. After a few hours I'm sure it heated it enough to turn the fan on. I just thought they got hot from cranking the stereo. Guess not.
Normal except for class D.
Someone should build a high end amp with a water jacket. Water cooling would be great for car or boat. Holy cow... would it ever make sense to wick the heat away to a radiator and small electric fan to be dispensed into the atmosphere at a convenient location.
It wouldn't be that hard to fit your output ICs with waterblocks. Seriously.
I wanted to run a freshwater tube thought the all of the heat sink/ cooling fins accross the top of a JL slash amp, but I had no takers... I think I mentioned it to RD a long while back...
here's some interesting reading on Thermoelectric cooling. I don't believe it will be too long before we start seeing this type of technology in high current mobile Amplifiers.Article 1 (http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever...crochannel.htm) and 2 (http://www.tetech.com/)
C.T. :wink:
A lot of good stuff here. I am curious though, waht was your battery voltage whenthe amps started to cut out?
They were at 12.6v-12.8v.
I have been happy with my Trojans. Last weekend we went camping and I played for 2 days as well as had a plug in icechest (4 amps). At the end of the weekend was at 11.9v with no charge, even from the alt.
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