What's up everyone. So I was I was searching around about running amps at .5 ohms or below their recomended ohm load in general, just out of curiosity, and everyone says most companies wont warrent their amps when ran below recomended loads. Now I understand why they do this, but how can the tell? Like say I run my amp at .5 and it fries. How can the company tell I ran it below the recomended load? Again, this is not something I plan to do but I've just been wondering. Thanks.
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because its fried... certain components will let loose first when that abuse happens and im sure they have a flow chart somewhere thats like ohh this transistor popped or this trace is burned up or this toroid is cooked from low resistance compared to a manufacturing defect or another component failing. most amps will go into protection mode when you do this though, if you do tho turn the gain and EQ boost down and work your way up while checking temperatures.
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You'll fry the outputs of the amp and not the power circuits. Very few head units supply enough voltage to overdrive the inputs. And if you crank up the gain your amp will still multiply that distorted signal and blow your subs. If you take a blown amp apart and multiple parts of the outputs are cooked, pretty good sign the ohm load was to low
But mostly it's the amp manufactures trying to get out of covering online and self installed amps. Who's going to sue a big company over a couple hundred bucks, and unless you got your mecp, your gonna lose in court anyways against the amp manufactures expert. Then you'll be on the hook for court cost. If you get the amp at a authorized dealer they should swap
It under warranty no problem matter what you did to
It, unless it's physical damage... Then it's
Not covered at allComment
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Fried output transistors is usually the culprit of shorting two amp terminals together. half an ohm is damn close to a short too.Comment
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