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The Inconvenient Truth about your Electro-Voice ZLX-12P & ZLX15P amplifier
A 210 x 2 watt chip can't give you 1000 watts.
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• Electro-Voice ZLX-12 &...
If you can get the max voltage +/-36 volts into the woofer, you are looking at 647 watts RMS if your woofer is 4 ohm.
The repair 'scope shot' shows +/- 30 volts peak to peak before it limits down to 20 volts PP.
30 volts PP times 2 = 60 volts PP.
60 x 0.707 = 42.42 RMS
42.42 x 42.42 = 1,799.4564
1,799.4564 into 4 ohms = 449.8641 RMS
At full power, this 449 watts lasted just a few seconds before the chip cut the output down to 200 watts approx.
READ THE DATA SHEET.
The audio signal has a crest factor of 10 (the ratio between peak power and average
power (20 dB); this means that the average output power is 1⁄10 of the peak power.
Thus, the peak RMS output power level is the 0.5 % THD level, i.e. 92.5 W per channel.
The average power is then 1⁄10 × 92.5 W = 9.25 W per channel