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- From: grego@bit.UUCP (Greg Sanguinetti)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Subwoofer amplification
- Message-ID: <543@bit.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:37:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bit.543
- References: <42728@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1992Dec21.111548.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <1992Dec21.125142.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <1992Dec22.005805.20878@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Reply-To: grego@bit.UUCP (Grego Sanguinetti)
- Organization: BIT Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Dec22.005805.20878@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.125142.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec21.111548.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>, lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
- >>> And as said before that supply needs reconsideration. For full swing
- >>> you need about +-24V supply with enough current capacity.
- >
- >This is probably obvious to many, but when building a power amp and
- >designing the power supply, there is an intimate relationship between
- >the voltage levels and the current it can deliver into the load.
- >
- >For example (as a first cut, just think DC and view the speaker as a
- >resistive load). Put 12V across 8 ohms and the max current flow is
- >12/8 = 1.5A. It doesn`t matter if the supply can deliver 100A, only
- >1.5A is going to flow into that load no matter what you do given 12V.
- >So, you need to scale up the supply voltages. Get a split +-36 volt
-
- Woops! I thought this thread was about using a car amp to drive a subwoofer?
- My mistake I guess. My last post was based on that assumption.
-
- In a car amp is a switching DC-DC converter that takes the 12 (actually 14)
- volts from the car and converts it to the necessary internal rails to drive
- the amp. It is expecting a single ended ~12v supply and shouldn't be supplied
- with more than about 18volts without fear of overloading the input. It
- depends on how robust the converter is.
-
- Now if your building an amp and power supply then yes, a 120w amp typically
- uses a 40 to 50volt bipolar supply with a minimum of 3A rating.
-
- -grego
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