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Author Topic: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?  (Read 31756 times)

Bob Leonard

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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2013, 10:33:45 AM »

Considering that a 120V 20A circuit can provide a maximum of about 2kW... what are you going to plug it in to?

Think "Step up, step down, look at all the values as they start to jump around. I didn't really understand the values that I saw, until I started using Mr. Ohmers law." (copyright applied for)
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2013, 10:44:08 AM »

Last summer I did an outdoor show in a baseball park with 4 EAW KF 850's, 8 Lab Subs, 3 Crest 8001's, 2 QSC Pl 9.0's, a 4 mix monitor setup with 4way cross stage monitors plus the whole band power with a 40k generator and was drawing 18 amps at full tilt and covered a crowd of over 2000. YMMV.

back when my rig was a LOT bigger(than what it is now), I had 3 PLX 3402 amps running subs, 4 ohms per side, 3 plx 2402 amps running mids, 4 ohms per side, 3 plx 2402's on monitors, 4 ohms per side. It was running full tilt at a show, blinking the clip lights occasionally, amps were split up on two legs coming from the main power supply, one leg was pulling 23 amps, the other 27
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2013, 10:53:58 AM »

Don't feel bad, in the early days UL was making us put 30A camper plugs on 3kW power amps. They later relaxed that to be a little more accommodating for the relatively low duty cycle of music.

JR

I had two crown MA3600 amps. One had a standard edison plug, one had the camper plug.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2013, 11:32:53 AM »

I had two crown MA3600 amps. One had a standard edison plug

How did that work out? Every MA3600 I've seen has been wired for 30A 125V.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2013, 11:40:59 AM »

How did that work out? Every MA3600 I've seen has been wired for 30A 125V.
it's been a long time ago, I think it was an older one, maybe somebody changed it out, but as best I can recall it was a molded edison plug on one.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #35 on: February 14, 2013, 12:21:40 PM »


How did that work out? Every MA3600 I've seen has been wired for 30A 125V.
When we first launched the MA3600VZ it had a 20Amp plug but UL decided it needed a 30Amp
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #36 on: February 14, 2013, 01:12:25 PM »

When we first launched the MA3600VZ it had a 20Amp plug but UL decided it needed a 30Amp
Yes, I had an older one I bought used and a new one, one had edison, one had camper plug.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #37 on: February 14, 2013, 02:32:30 PM »

This was some 15 years ago but I recall that UL was issuing different advice from their east coast and west coast offices of UL. We were being told to put a 30A camper plug on a 3kw amp, while I just returned from a trade show seeing a new QSC amp, bigger than 3kW with an Edison plug.  I asked my inside agency guy "how come?", that was how we figured out UL was schizophrenic. 

Either way the consumers just cut the 30A plugs off, or bought Edison to camper plug adapters to play the local bar, with their "big for the day" amps. 

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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #38 on: February 14, 2013, 04:35:26 PM »

from the QSC manual:

Current Consumption at 120V (in amperes) at typical output power (idle current= 1 amp)
RMX 4050HD
8 ohms typical= 6.4,
4 ohms typical= 10.0,
2 ohms typical= 14.5,

this 4000 watt amp has a 15 amp internal breaker

I made the mistake of thinking a 4000 watt amp needed 33 amps A.C. when I was starting out 20 years ago

You omit that that 'typical' readings are at 1/8 th power.   

I wonder what 1/8 power of the 25kW amp will be?  Maybe they will spec it at 1/64 power.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Behringer Inuke amplifiers?
« Reply #39 on: February 14, 2013, 04:46:43 PM »

You omit that that 'typical' readings are at 1/8 th power.   

I wonder what 1/8 power of the 25kW amp will be?  Maybe they will spec it at 1/64 power.

those readings are what the amp normally will be drawing in typical service. Real world. This is the number you should use to base your electrical needs on. The only time an amp draws the max is if you are feeding it a sine wave, and then it will trip the internal breaker.
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