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Michael Oladipo

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Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« on: February 22, 2018, 02:15:12 PM »

Good evening everyone, please is it possible to daisy chain more than one amplifiers to have more powerful combined power(watts). For example, I have powerful set of subwoofers, and so is it possible to combine the amplifiers watts in order to power the subs? if yes, pks how...thnks.
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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2018, 02:45:36 PM »

Good evening everyone, please is it possible to daisy chain more than one amplifiers to have more powerful combined power(watts). For example, I have powerful set of subwoofers, and so is it possible to combine the amplifiers watts in order to power the subs? if yes, pks how...thnks.

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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2018, 08:10:40 PM »

Good evening everyone, please is it possible to daisy chain more than one amplifiers to have more powerful combined power(watts). For example, I have powerful set of subwoofers, and so is it possible to combine the amplifiers watts in order to power the subs? if yes, pks how...thnks.
 
NO.
The best you might be able to do is to bridge amplifiers, even different brand mono amps.  But you must be very careful doing the wiring and setting the gains.

You cannot run the output of one amp into the input of another amp.  You will only have the output of the final amp.
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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2018, 09:55:56 AM »

Good evening everyone, please is it possible to daisy chain more than one amplifiers to have more powerful combined power(watts). For example, I have powerful set of subwoofers, and so is it possible to combine the amplifiers watts in order to power the subs? if yes, pks how...thnks.
As Ivan said, no you cannot daisy chain amps.
If you tell us what speakers and what amps are you using, we might be able to suggest something.
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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2018, 01:56:27 PM »

As Ivan said, no you cannot daisy chain amps.
If you tell us what speakers and what amps are you using, we might be able to suggest something.

And that question should be moved over to another forum here.

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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2018, 04:53:35 AM »

 
NO.
The best you might be able to do is to bridge amplifiers, even different brand mono amps.  But you must be very careful doing the wiring and setting the gains.

You cannot run the output of one amp into the input of another amp.  You will only have the output of the final amp.

Good point, I hadn't thought of bridging two mono amplifiers.
So if I took a pair of MA5002VZs, set them for parallel operation (where you can tie the positive outputs together, for 5kW into a 1ohm load), and fed one of them inverted, I'd have a 6U amp that'll stick 10KW into a 2ohm load.

Neat. All I'd need then is a forklift and a really big generator.

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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2018, 07:20:49 AM »

Good point, I hadn't thought of bridging two mono amplifiers.
So if I took a pair of MA5002VZs, set them for parallel operation (where you can tie the positive outputs together, for 5kW into a 1ohm load), and fed one of them inverted, I'd have a 6U amp that'll stick 10KW into a 2ohm load.

Neat. All I'd need then is a forklift and a really big generator.

Chris
One of the "untold" issues with the "parallel" mode, is that once you go up in freq, it starts to fall apart a bit.

I think this was around 5KHz or so.

So it is better used for lower freq signals.

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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2018, 07:55:18 AM »

Good point, I hadn't thought of bridging two mono amplifiers.
So if I took a pair of MA5002VZs, set them for parallel operation (where you can tie the positive outputs together, for 5kW into a 1ohm load), and fed one of them inverted, I'd have a 6U amp that'll stick 10KW into a 2ohm load.

Neat. All I'd need then is a forklift and a really big generator.

Chris
Doing some welding? ;D
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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2018, 12:09:55 PM »

One of the "untold" issues with the "parallel" mode, is that once you go up in freq, it starts to fall apart a bit.

I think this was around 5KHz or so.

So it is better used for lower freq signals.

That's interesting, thanks for the info.
I can't imagine needing that sort of power for HF, but I might do some high-frequency sweeps of the Macrotech I have here to see what the deal is.


Keith, I just found it interesting to compare - 4x MA5000s, paralleled and then bridged into a 2-channel amplifier, would keep up with a K20. That's progress.


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Re: Daisy Chain Amplifiers' Power
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2018, 12:24:03 PM »

That's interesting, thanks for the info.
I can't imagine needing that sort of power for HF, but I might do some high-frequency sweeps of the Macrotech I have here to see what the deal is.



Chris
Be sure to do it under load.

I have not actually done/measured it, but was this was the case for a VERY reliable source, who has ties everywhere.

The problem might not show up on a simple sweep.
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