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Inadequate Sub Power For a Venue... Tips/Tricks/Help
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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 122114" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>Re: Inadequate Sub Power For a Venue... Tips/Tricks/Help</p><p></p><p></p><p>Agreed about the bridging-except when you bridge 2 1000 watt amps you get 4000 watts-6dB voltage gain (into the same impedance-assuming it is within the limits of the amps).</p><p></p><p>But the times I have heard people say this they were just talking about running the output of one amp into another.</p><p></p><p>Yes some amps can "take" the output of another-but you are still limited by the "power" of the second amp. The first one adds nothing to the total capability.</p><p></p><p>Totally agreed about making Peavey gear hard to fail with. But I have had people INSIST that I remove an autograph (that was only being used as an RTA-not the system eq) from the rack because-as they put it-"Peavey gear contaminates the ground-even when it is turned off". WOW the stuff people believe and don't have a clue about-but they still keep on "preaching it".</p><p></p><p>My personal favorite is the CS800. It was designed so that you could drive it into a dead short all day and not kill it (till it thermally shut down) but it would come back.</p><p></p><p>in fact that was the test for a repair-short the output and drive it into full clip until it overheated. Then remove the short after it cooled down and if it still worked you did a good repair.</p><p></p><p>That came straight from the Peavey repair center and I did that that test many times. It was designed so that "stupid musicians" could hook up as many speakers as they wanted and they could not kill the amp and it would keep on making sound and not have relays that disconnected the speakers. Yes the power would drop way down-but the amp would not die <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>To me THAT is a good design. Hats off to the designers. They understood their market and what the "typical customer" would do equipment.</p><p></p><p>The important thing was to keep working day after day. Not work really good sometimes and constantly break down.</p><p></p><p>And in the ol' days, when Peavey gear needed repair-it was pretty inexpensive to repair. I am not sure about these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 122114, member: 30"] Re: Inadequate Sub Power For a Venue... Tips/Tricks/Help Agreed about the bridging-except when you bridge 2 1000 watt amps you get 4000 watts-6dB voltage gain (into the same impedance-assuming it is within the limits of the amps). But the times I have heard people say this they were just talking about running the output of one amp into another. Yes some amps can "take" the output of another-but you are still limited by the "power" of the second amp. The first one adds nothing to the total capability. Totally agreed about making Peavey gear hard to fail with. But I have had people INSIST that I remove an autograph (that was only being used as an RTA-not the system eq) from the rack because-as they put it-"Peavey gear contaminates the ground-even when it is turned off". WOW the stuff people believe and don't have a clue about-but they still keep on "preaching it". My personal favorite is the CS800. It was designed so that you could drive it into a dead short all day and not kill it (till it thermally shut down) but it would come back. in fact that was the test for a repair-short the output and drive it into full clip until it overheated. Then remove the short after it cooled down and if it still worked you did a good repair. That came straight from the Peavey repair center and I did that that test many times. It was designed so that "stupid musicians" could hook up as many speakers as they wanted and they could not kill the amp and it would keep on making sound and not have relays that disconnected the speakers. Yes the power would drop way down-but the amp would not die :) To me THAT is a good design. Hats off to the designers. They understood their market and what the "typical customer" would do equipment. The important thing was to keep working day after day. Not work really good sometimes and constantly break down. And in the ol' days, when Peavey gear needed repair-it was pretty inexpensive to repair. I am not sure about these days. [/QUOTE]
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