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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:17 pm 
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I have a sony 12" sub out of my ed that ran off a 4 channel sony amp, my question is can a stock EL ghia amp run this sub?.

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:23 pm 
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i heard that the standard amp only puts out 100wrms, either that or the cabling can only take 100wrms, but i may be wrong.

But if i were you i would get a new amp as the stock one only ran an 8" sub which would require heaps less power than a 12"
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:43 pm 
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Standard amp is around 100rms from all accounts. It will run it fine but dont expect earth shattering bass.

If anything driving a 12" is better than an 8" as it will most likely have a higher sensitivity and produce more output for the same power .

 

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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:08 pm 
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SBR wrote:
I have a sony 12" sub out of my ed that ran off a 4 channel sony amp, my question is can a stock EL ghia amp run this sub?.


Run an 8 gauge power cable and earth cable for the poor amp. Alot of its power is restricted due to the pissy size of the factory cabling.

As Pyro said, dont expect anything earth shattering, but for a $20 investment you will get closer to the 140 - 150WRMS figure from the factory amp.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:27 pm 
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isnt the original sub a 6ohm?

 

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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:30 pm 
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nah the speakers are six ohm wired up in some freaky pattern. im not to sure but i dont think the amp is six

 

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The sub is a 6 ohm...

But the speakers are 4 ohm.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:49 am 
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The amp will handle 4 ohm and yes the factory sub is 6 to reduce the amount of sub. basically the lower the ohmage of the driver the more power that will be produced but at a cost, the amp has to be of better quality especially running under 4 ohm. running under 4 ohm also produces more heat in the amp due to more load.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:16 am 
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or maybe time to upgrade to a cheap mono block or decent multi channel amp...and sorry I know thats not what the original post was about :wink:

 

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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:29 pm 
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so basicly i may aswell stick the sony amp in and get rid of the original, thanks guys for your help.

 

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