I'm going to try to explain everyone's confustion with one equation.

Power = Current ^2 * Resistance (Manipulation of Ohm's law)

The problem with the water analogy is that current flow to produce power is exponential. Low frequencies take a ton of power to produce compared to high frequencies. (Thus your lights dim at bass). When the power requirement is high the current does not increase linearly, it increases exponentially. Therefore a reasonably small resistice is multiplied to an exponential, created a much larger power requiremnet then with lower power requirements.

The water in pipe thing is almost exponential as well. There will eventually com a point with infinite wall strengh that no fluid flow is present becuase of the increased friction caused by the increased flow. Assuming you could never burst a pipe. There is eventually a point where no water will move.

There, you made me get nerdy....Engineers FTMFW!!!!!

 

hey, ttocs..... I think P just told us to go to our rooms

 

I loved my PG 1200.1, although it did have to send it for warrantee. Hit 146.4 on a TL with 3 JL12W6d2's in a ported box 6.5 cubes tuned to 33hz.


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It's all relative in West Virginia!!!.

Actually, the battery is your best ground. 18" or < preferrably for a body ground. Also, when using a body ground, make sure to remove paint down to bare metal.

 

I am a tech myself, can't stand engineers much... But that is just because they expect me to do what they want most of the time, and the ones I deal with are just half a step above rainman....

Ok, I don't know much about plumbing. But you can put too much current through too small of a wire and it will first get warm, then start to glow and eventually melt off the insulation and melt the wire. It will not level off like the pipe would until it burned itself clean apart, we call it welding in the bay and it is not allowed.

 

..DOWN GOES JAZZER....
DOWN GOES JAZZER

I talked to my electrician buddy today, and figures the ground is bad. He doesn't however feel that the wire is too small a guage.

But Jazzer knows when he's been beat, and bows gracefully to ttocs......

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In the second portion of my explanation, I stated that the power requirements are much higher for low frequencies. That is a fact. If your amp was playing a constant 25 hz signal for an extended amount of time you would kiss that wire goodbye.

Becuase of the fluxiation of bass frequencies, the wire does not have enought time to retain heat becuase aluminium( or copper) is a very heat dissipator.