Rockford fosgate t15kw hybrid amplifier audio

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What is the most showey amplifier?

Forgot your password? DAMN I have heard of those, although never seen one! Battery I don't know, I know Meade, Steve Meade on you tube has 8 d's powering 2 two t15k's and that is ferocious.

A warhorse from kicker would seem more logical. Are you sure about that? Lets think about this here, where does all of this energy come from? The energy that these caps need. Tell me how a capacitor works and operates.

You have to charge the cap, then it discharges. But along the way ther has to be some power loss and distortion somewhere due to heat, thermal dynamics, wire resistance, circuit board resistance?

Yes it is true the idea came from a defibrillator. That and the fact that the amount of total energy all those batteries contain is huge and they are only using a fraction of it during their burp.

So when you look at the way a defibrillator is used its like burping an amp. Defibrillators don't have massive power cords that need mega amps at V, in fact some of them are portable and run off a very small battery. Why, because they don't need to shock someone for hours at a time, just a quick burst. They just draw a small amount of power continuously during 'charge up' and once all the energy they need is accumulated they release it all at once.

With the operation of the defibrillator in mind, I tried to apply it to car audio. I set off to build a prototype which was based on 2 T By keeping them very cold they could be pushed beyond their limits. This may be the radiator ect I didn't really how much power it would make exactly, but to try to shorten this long story it ended up putting out 15, Watts RMS! This is how 15k Watts became the goal for a 'real' amp.

The first step towards making it a 'real' amplifier was I had to eliminate the array of batteries. I began searching high and low for something that would do it. I found a company that makes capacitors for hybrid cars and large wind turbines. These worked perfectly. The caps I ended up using are Farads, and there are of these in the T15kW. Then I needed an intelligent power supply that could monitor these caps and add energy to them as needed, and it had to be fast, really fast if this amp was going to play music and not just a burst.

So during music these caps are charging, discharging, charging, discharging. The power supply in the T15kW can charge the caps 35, times per second. Of course many other things had to happen like finding MOSFETs that could handle it, a way to keep it cool without antifreeze and car radiators ect. The final product met all the goals and then some. The main idea is that with this technology the amplifier can put out more power during transients or bursts than the car it's connected to could supply.

I don't care what marketing BS the designer wishes to spread. All it does is trade-off lower peak current draw for higher continuous current draw. It's still drawing the power from the electrical system to supply the capacitor bank, it's not a generator that creates it's own power. Only difference between this and a standard amplifier is that on large musical peaks it utilizes the capacitor bank to decrease the peak current draw from the electrical system, however the downside is that the current draw is going to be higher during non-musical peaks because it then has to recharge the capacitors.

So yes, you will still need a very hefty electrical system since the continuous current draw from the electrical system will be extremely high compared to a standard amplifier. But again, that's peak current draw and says nothing about the increased continuous current consumption from the electrical system.

When a "normal" amp nearly stops drawing current because the music stopped, this thing is going to continue drawing large amounts of current to recharge the caps. Again, it's a giant capacitor, not a generator. It doesn't create power, it stores it. It needs to get that power from somewhere, which is the electrical system. Also calling it a 15kw "RMS" amplifier is a bit of a mistruth.

Based on the capacitors, it can only supply 15kw for 16 seconds before the capacitor bank depletes. It's actually a 4kw RMS amplifier with 15kw "burst" power, not a true 15kw continuous power amplifier. Ive heard one of these amps. Running on 3 batteries on a single charging line if i remember correctly. It is expensive but i was impressed by how long it played music on the power supply it was on. It was a wall with a total of around 40 P1 12's. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment.

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CrazyKenKid Posted April 23, edited. Edited April 23, by CrazyKenKid. CHRIS Bob Iirc, these things cost over 20k new. And only 18 ever made. Steve Meade has 4 so that leaves 12 left in the world! BaMF 3. Sencheezy From the designer himself. Could you please answer my question sir? Impious 1, Posted April 24, Meh, ill put a down payment on a second house. An-i-no Posted May 1, Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.

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Power Series 15, watt ultra-capacitor 4-channel amplifier designed to operate down to a 0. Inspired by the life-saving defibrillator that packs so much power into a compact unit, successfully applied to amplifier technology! Rated to produce the most ideal "Power Cube" by Audio Graph. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It is stored in the form of potential. As the potential energy increases your heart surges, adrenaline rushes and your body braces in anticipation.

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