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Other Stuff => Solid State => Topic started by: shooter on June 12, 2019, 07:00:04 pm

Title: datasheet cypher
Post by: shooter on June 12, 2019, 07:00:04 pm
In my old life;
We pulsed RF, after pulse, wait Xtime, sample

Guessing that is NOT? What’s going on with NOTE(*)  Musical power

Thanks
dave
Title: Re: datasheet cypher
Post by: PRR on June 12, 2019, 07:35:44 pm
It is shameful to call this "Music" power.

This is Totally clipped-out SQUARE Wave power.

It might be a guide for picking a speaker's true dissipation capacity in a party-box or guitar amplifier, where distortion is part of the job. 

For pre-made music, the 70 Watts is the number to compare.
Title: Re: datasheet cypher
Post by: shooter on June 12, 2019, 08:18:54 pm
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Totally clipped-out
Ya, there's a note about non-linearity 
I'm looking for 50Wrms, appears it gets there

So it's a continuous "...wave", sample at 1 second VS one wave, wait 1 second sample  :dontknow:

thanks as always
Title: Re: datasheet cypher
Post by: PRR on June 13, 2019, 02:39:12 pm
Their BS test is to run it up to FULL! power, totally clipped. This could kick-in protection circuits, so they wait one second for that to happen. Then they take a reading.

It is plausibly a meaningful test for BOOM boxes which might clip hard a part-second every few seconds, and the users tolerate gross distortion.

It may not be meaningful for headbanger solid-clipping guitar amplification, where a clip may last bars, not just a second.

Since it has an IEC number I suppose other makers do the same test and you can compare them.
Title: Re: datasheet cypher
Post by: shooter on June 13, 2019, 03:27:45 pm
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This could kick-in protection circuits
:laugh:
coverin the bases  :think1:

I think the "standard" SPL testing has undergone changes also since I last looked (20yrs ago :)
I see a lot of 2.83v @ 1meter instead of the old 1v @ 1 meter and what do you know, the SPL value is higher at 2.83_duh!

thanks for the time PRR, always appreciated.
I'm just looking for 50W max clean, 30-40w probably good enough, so far 2 channel board-kit is under $25, reasonable, the PS + good filtering is still near $75 so I'm in scrounge mode there  :icon_biggrin: