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<blockquote data-quote="Ron Kimball" data-source="post: 99348" data-attributes="member: 405">Re: SH-46, TH-118 RMS limiter time constants?Interesting, I&#039;m running about 155V peak into my little TH-Mini&#039;s (bridged NU3000). Either you&#039;re way conservative or I&#039;m screwed LOL. The NU3000 limits rms to 750w into each after 1 second and will shut down after 5 seconds of that so I&#039;m pretty well protected against burnout without any other limiting I think. Even if I lose one cab the amp limits to 750w bridged into 8 ohms after 3 seconds. I&#039;m pretty happy with the match without feeling any need to put a DSP on it - I have a simple DBX-223 with it&#039;s 40Hz HPF engaged pushing that. My tops are active anyways so have their own protection.EDIT&gt; Oops, forgot that the TH118 is 4 ohms so my 155V on the Mini translates to the peak watts to rated rms watts equivalent of 176V on the 118. I&#039;d prefer to limit at 150V (peak power = 4x rms rated) on the mini&#039;s but lose some on the speakon cables anyways. That would be the equivalent of 170V peak on the 118 so not that far from your slightly more conservative 165V <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ron Kimball, post: 99348, member: 405"] Re: SH-46, TH-118 RMS limiter time constants? Interesting, I'm running about 155V peak into my little TH-Mini's (bridged NU3000). Either you're way conservative or I'm screwed LOL. The NU3000 limits rms to 750w into each after 1 second and will shut down after 5 seconds of that so I'm pretty well protected against burnout without any other limiting I think. Even if I lose one cab the amp limits to 750w bridged into 8 ohms after 3 seconds. I'm pretty happy with the match without feeling any need to put a DSP on it - I have a simple DBX-223 with it's 40Hz HPF engaged pushing that. My tops are active anyways so have their own protection. EDIT> Oops, forgot that the TH118 is 4 ohms so my 155V on the Mini translates to the peak watts to rated rms watts equivalent of 176V on the 118. I'd prefer to limit at 150V (peak power = 4x rms rated) on the mini's but lose some on the speakon cables anyways. That would be the equivalent of 170V peak on the 118 so not that far from your slightly more conservative 165V :) . [/QUOTE]

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