Better to go with 1 or 2 ohm amp?
I am gonna be getting a duel 1 ohm per coil sub should I get a 1 or 2 ohms. I am gonna be running the sub at .5 ohms but with imp rise if I went with 2 ohms I would get the most out of the amp if my ohms get high from the imp rise. This is for competing a single sub setup. I wan told by one pro to go with the 2 ohms because after imp rise it may become almost 3 ohms higher anyways without knowing. I just wanted a few other peoples advice.
Daily = rated impedance
burp 12V 0.5 16V 0.7 min.
It took me a whole year of testing to find out, initially I thought it could be a clipped signal measurement error, but no, It is plain an simple an overpowering behaviour.
While subwoofer power handling didnt change that much throughout the years, output amp power did, and now it does not take much to push the coil far from xlim limits, specially if you consider the smaller amp we currently sell in north-america is a 5000W amp. The weaker one.
Coil traveling outside the gap = less windings inside the magnetic field, less back electromotive force acting = less electrical opposition to movement = less impedance rise = higher current
This happens on both daily and SPL systems, I was fortunate enough to test it on low frequency, high frequency (bass range), street class, SS class, extreme class, bass race, 150, 160, 180dB, you name it.
Regarding voltage, yes, with our design you have more voltage, with more voltage you can send more power. Impedance is the opposition to alternating voltage, so if the impedance is high, just send more voltage and you get your power (P=VxI).
Higher impedance coils = louder. Some people think different because back in days the only way to pull decent power was using ultra low Re coils, since most amps had low voltage capabilities. Guess what, you dont need to do that anymore.
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