I've been told i can't run 3 amps on a SVC sub, blowing the sub is not an issue or is frying the amps. Anyone tell me why or why not??????

I'm doing this for a sound of here in Darwin, maily just for laughs, to see if the sub lives and see what kind of dB's I can get out of a earthquake BR10. The amps will be a Phillips 6040 and 6020 and a kicker ix 235, they will all be bridged and the 6040 will have a mono input. So you thoughts????

noooooooo don't do it!!!

but why not??????

you need to give me a reason for. not just don't do it.....

if it's because the sub will blow that don't worry me, its just lying around

Any how i was thinking of hooking it up to 240volts mains and videoing it blow up, for even more laughs

u can jsut give em to me

the term is "strapping"
certianly can be done, but unless you are an electrical engineer, or have researched the topic very thoroughly you're gonna get smoke.
probably from the amps,
or nothing at all.

Ok thanks, so does anyone here know how to do this???????

It's not going to be a permanant setup, it's just for fun.

I know most will say just buy a bigger amp, but funds are being put aside for bigger and better things

with 2 single ended designs (true single channel amps), it you can get a cheap bridging module to bridge them together (like a 2 channel amp)

if you have amps that are already bridged, then you will need a special bridging module (I'm not even sure if these are commercially available)

if not, then your amps will just fry each other

Bassaholic u said "if not, then your amps will just fry each other"

what will cause this to happen?????

and why will they need to be strapped together??? why can't they just be run into the sub

if you wire all of the leads to the sub, then they will send the power to each other, rather than the sub, resulting in some stuffed amps

And I would think that strapping would be safe with similar amp models.. Not compleltely different brand/model/design leading to varying output voltages. The outputs could be slightly out of phase with the other amps.. I personally wouldn't bother trying :-)

[ October 21, 2002, 11:07: Message edited by: Andu ]