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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Cameron" data-source="post: 121470" data-attributes="member: 42">Re: Determining Load Ratings When Not Specified (16 ohm)Yeah, I had no caps in my boxes. EAW had the same issue with the KF850T (TAD) as well. The last batch of failures I had were due to the limiters being set too loose for my 1&quot;s and someone did a hot plug on a cranked, unmuted high hat condenser. The one thing about look-ahead limiters is that they actually need to be set correctly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Mine were set with the threshold about 3dB too high. Ooops. In any case, that was the last straw for me so I looked for an alternative driver and sold the TADs. Dave and I looked over the specs on several high quality/high output 1&quot; drivers for VHF and the 18Sound looked to be about the best in it&#039;s category for extension/output/distortion. I did consider going to a modern 2&quot; and eliminating the 1&quot;, but all the really good 2&quot; drivers with good extension and lower VHF distortion are very pricey. So it was more economical to keep the JBLs and change out the 1&quot;.P.S. the limiters on the 1&quot; are set correctly now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Cameron, post: 121470, member: 42"] Re: Determining Load Ratings When Not Specified (16 ohm) Yeah, I had no caps in my boxes. EAW had the same issue with the KF850T (TAD) as well. The last batch of failures I had were due to the limiters being set too loose for my 1"s and someone did a hot plug on a cranked, unmuted high hat condenser. The one thing about look-ahead limiters is that they actually need to be set correctly ;) Mine were set with the threshold about 3dB too high. Ooops. In any case, that was the last straw for me so I looked for an alternative driver and sold the TADs. Dave and I looked over the specs on several high quality/high output 1" drivers for VHF and the 18Sound looked to be about the best in it's category for extension/output/distortion. I did consider going to a modern 2" and eliminating the 1", but all the really good 2" drivers with good extension and lower VHF distortion are very pricey. So it was more economical to keep the JBLs and change out the 1". P.S. the limiters on the 1" are set correctly now. [/QUOTE]

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