for 1 your amp wiring is way way too small im not familiar with that amp but i do know on my kicker 2500.1 i had to run a minimum of 0 gauge and that was with a true 2500 rms amp ( actually 2729 tested ) , secondly id start looking into capacitors there's no way they are getting their full potential ( if really that high rms ) just with 2 batteries , also the fuses on the amp will tell you what it it really pushes because only so many watts can be pushed through a fuse 15amp=xx 30amp=zz ect. , i used to do installs for a good while and i can tell you your best bet for powering options would be to go with kinetic batteries and run a large tsunami cap also upgrade all the 4g to 0 or better just my 2cents
Thats exactly my point, with wiring that small you're not getting but maybe 25% of its total peak potential. On top of which, pushing that much amperage through such a small gauge wire (for the application anyway) can create heat in the wire and the possibility of a fire.
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there is more then 1 wire running to the whole system, i dont quite know the exact setup, ill have to ask them but im getting every bit of 10,000 watts out of it.
there is more then 1 wire running to the whole system, i dont quite know the exact setup, ill have to ask them but im getting every bit of 10,000 watts out of it.
Of course there's more than one.. Power, ground, remote, RCA's (signal).
We're only talking about the power and ground wires in this case. Its kind of funny that you've got 4 amps running a single sub. It's pretty common to run several subs off a single amp, but fairly uncommon to run a single speaker off several amps.
I still laugh when I think 10,000 watts... I still can't get used to everyone referring to peak wattage.
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+1 on the pictures. I'd like to see exactly what you're running under there, if you don't mind.
17,000 watts peak? So you're saying that those 10,000 watts you were talking about were RMS watts?
Either you spent a ton of money on that system or someone is pulling your chain. You're not going to yank 10,000 watts RMS out of 2 batteries and no capacitor.
Do you have any model numbers on your amps and sub?
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Even so, that sub is only rated for 4000 watts RMS. Pushing 10,000 through it is probably going to eat the coil alive.
Might want to consider finding out whats really going on with it instead of listening to your shop that installed it. Especially if you spent a lot of money on it.
Some shops will install something like that because they know it'll work for awhile and that when it breaks you'll be back to buy another one.
BTW, some pics would be cool, I haven't seen a 15" in the back of an s197 yet.
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