A CD will skip before an amp breaks from vibration, although I wonder how they don't on multiple 18" setups. If you have your amp on the outside of your trunk lid and it's bouncing around, the impact will damage something, if you keep it flat than the vibration dissipates across it. I think amps should have two fans - one to take air out and one to take air in, most amps probably just have one fan taking air in, right? Even four fans across a long amp or 2 fans each side would be neat to see, I guess the heat is only coming from one area? Has anyone thought about using liquid cooling like alienware comps?

 

Does that look like the future?

 

Agreed - 2 fans is the best setup, or at least an arrangement that allows for forced air intake and exhaust.

 

Actually two fans in parallel is far more effective than one in/one out.

Most mobile amps that have tubes in them run the tubes on the pre-amp side only. To help them survive in a car they run them wayyyy below rated power so nothing heats up too much.

And PPI offered fluid cooling 20 years ago.

 

Dukk, u and I must be old if we remember the PPI art's fluid cooling days.

 

Man that would f**k up your electronics if it sprung a leak!

 

not if you used vegetable oil or something non conducting...
although that would not be as effective as a normal water coolant mix.

 

Now if the amp was designed for liquid cooling with built in channels in the heat sink and under or around the high heat areas, then that would be great...i think the ppi amps were like that if i recall...but uber expensive for little to no real world benefit...at least nothing that a good fan system wouldn't be able to duplicate.

 

the bazooka systems as well had this system

 

veggie or petroleum oil has better thermal conductivity than water (so does cement BTW) but water has much better thermal conductivity than air