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<blockquote data-quote="Brian jojade" data-source="post: 19228" data-attributes="member: 211"><p>Re: New Power Amplifiers??</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>AC watts will always be higher than the actual watts that are delivered to your speaker. The rest of the watts are lost as heat from the amp. With your 2 amps on one circuit, there is no way you can deliver the rated power of the amps for any duration without blowing a breaker. Remember that the clip light will start to flicker at 1/8 power. The pl380 is rated at 8000 watts, loaded to the hilt. That means when the clip light starts to flicker, its giving you 1000 watts at the peaks. Music being dynamic means the average wattage will be much less than that. </p><p></p><p>How dynamic depends on the type of music. Play some heavily compressed club music and you will be making a trip to the breaker panel real soon. For a live band where you never see the clip light, you will probably be just fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brian jojade, post: 19228, member: 211"] Re: New Power Amplifiers?? AC watts will always be higher than the actual watts that are delivered to your speaker. The rest of the watts are lost as heat from the amp. With your 2 amps on one circuit, there is no way you can deliver the rated power of the amps for any duration without blowing a breaker. Remember that the clip light will start to flicker at 1/8 power. The pl380 is rated at 8000 watts, loaded to the hilt. That means when the clip light starts to flicker, its giving you 1000 watts at the peaks. Music being dynamic means the average wattage will be much less than that. How dynamic depends on the type of music. Play some heavily compressed club music and you will be making a trip to the breaker panel real soon. For a live band where you never see the clip light, you will probably be just fine. [/QUOTE]
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