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lutach · 08.31.2007, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Sower

I bet that scared you though, eh? :)

No. I'm used to it LOL. I've been messing with R/C for over 13yrs now and from the exploding NiCads to smoked ESC, Lipos are safer LOL. I remember when I got my 12,000mAh packs, poeple were saying it was too big and they don't need them. A few yrs. later MaxAmps came out with big mAh packs and everyone is loving them. I shorted them as well to see if they would puff or explode and nothing. Got to love electricity.

Sower · 08.31.2007, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by lutach

No. I'm used to it LOL. I've been messing with R/C for over 13yrs now and from the exploding NiCads to smoked ESC, Lipos are safer LOL. I remember when I got my 12,000mAh packs, poeple were saying it was too big and they don't need them. A few yrs. later MaxAmps came out with big mAh packs and everyone is loving them. I shorted them as well to see if they would puff or explode and nothing. Got to love electricity.

That's hilarious!

lutach · 08.31.2007, 12:39 PM

I got electrocuted a few times and it wasn't so bad LOL. The one time I actually got scared was when I was installing a competition audio system for a friend of mine. I had a few guys helping me and I asked them to make sure that the ground wires were disconnected and I have no clue what happened, but I got thrown back a few feet and the pain through out my body was really scary. I was also shaking a lot. I'm ok though LOL. I wish I had time to mess with my other toys. Here is a photo of 2 of them.

BrianG · 08.31.2007, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by lutach

I got electrocuted a few times and it wasn't so bad LOL. The one time I actually got scared was when I was installing a competition audio system for a friend of mine. I had a few guys helping me and I asked them to make sure that the ground wires were disconnected and I have no clue what happened, but I got thrown back a few feet and the pain through out my body was really scary. I was also shaking a lot. I'm ok though LOL. I wish I had time to mess with my other toys. Here is a photo of 2 of them.

Did you have the cover off and touch the internals or something? Assuming a monoblock design, 8,000w on even a 1ohm load requires around +/- 135vDC rails (270v total). That same power on 4ohms would require power rails around +/-260vDC (520v total). That can hurt!

Wow, over 1,000A on 12vDC battery power just for the 8kW amp! Must be one heck of a charging system! Makes my "old school" PPI 600w (sub) and 400w (mids/highs) system seem anemic by comparison.

Those look to be some high quality amps there. What brand? The PS section is larger than the actual amplifier section. Beefy transformers and capacitor bank...

lutach · 08.31.2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BrianG

Did you have the cover off and touch the internals or something? Assuming a monoblock design, 8,000w on even a 1ohm load requires around +/- 135vDC rails (270v total). That same power on 4ohms would require power rails around +/-260vDC (520v total). That can hurt!

Wow, over 1,000A on 12vDC battery power just for the 8kW amp! Must be one heck of a charging system! Makes my "old school" PPI 600w (sub) and 400w (mids/highs) system seem anemic by comparison.

Those look to be some high quality amps there. What brand? The PS section is larger than the actual amplifier section. Beefy transformers and capacitor bank...

I have no clue how the voltage stuff works LOL. The amplifiers can only accept 18 volts max. They are Class D amps around 85% efficiency. I haven't installed this amps yet. I was going to have them manufactured for me, but it seems that market for such powerful amps is not there anymore. The system that I installed and got electrocuted had 20 SLA batteries each putting out 1200CCA. Man the wire we used were 2/0GA.