After an incredibly busy September, I've finally found the time to write up a report on my final test of the PowerH amplifiers. I took the rack of Dynacord amps to one of the most inhospitable environments for electronics around: Burning Man, home of 100+ degree temps, rain, and dust storms. I did, however, provide the gear with some protection. I built a box, outfitted with air conditioners, to hold the gear in hopes of keeping it relatively dust-free. Here are some pics of the camp:
You can see the top corner of the amplifier box behind the DJ shade structure in the second pic. It was built with 4x8 stage decks and OSB. You can see one of the AC units poking out of the side of the box.
I had ordered some speaker lifts to fly my tops, but due to a shipping mishap, they weren't delivered in time for the show. So at the last minute, I was forced to go with the pipe and base apparatus you see here. Genie Supertowers would have been a much better option, but as I'd already spent the budget on the new lifts, I couldn't afford to go that route. Aside from the hassle of building the stands, and getting the speakers in place, they worked pretty well. We did decide to not fly the last two tops due to the extra weight and inconvenience. Since the dance floor was pretty small, we didn't really need the extra top cabinets.
And yes, those are 12 Danley TH-115's you see there. I traded in my Bassmaxx Trips for 8 TH-115's, and I cross-rented another 4. I'll be posting my impressions of these subs in another thread soon.
These pics were taken on the Sunday after the burn. The camp has taken a bit of a beating from dust storms over the course of the week, and unfortunately, the partner of the camp's main organizer broke her ankle early in the week, and he spent almost all of the rest of the event with her in a hospital in Reno, so the shade structures were looking a bit ragged by the end of the week. All in all, the camp weathered the storms pretty well though.