Overheated amp (1 Viewer)

You shouldn't have any problem, you have lots of space.

Are you sure it's overheating?? Has anything changed that ay have caused it??

Is there a possiblility that you may be running the amp bridged with 2-4ohm voice coils in parallel so the amp sees a 1ohm load??

That would be my first guess

Brent

You might try repositioning the sub away from the amp, just to get some airflow there. Especially in the summer.

You can also get a small 12v fan and mount it there to blow air over the amp if you really want to do some work. I would try moving the sub, getting some airflow, and see if that helps.

brentl has a good point with the ohm load too. Make sure your amp isn't seeing too much.

I asked because they offer the Excelon 10" in both both Ohm and dual voice coil 4 Ohm.

Brent

Jason, definately use a fan if you keep the amp in its present location. At least your heat sinks are vertical. You could also run tubing from your AC to cool the amp down. Don't laugh I have seen folks at ISACA shows run freon lines on their mosfet rails. That is a bit extreme. Amps have internal thermisters that shut them down for heat. But if the heat is not generated by the environment than it is an impendence issue. Since you have just one sub I doubt the amp is going into dangerously low loads. If it's DVC run it two-channel bridged stereo.

"If it's DVC run it two-channel bridged stereo."

Doing this on an amp that will only handle a 2 ohm load will most definately shut the amp down quick!!

Brent

If the amp can handle a lower impedance than 2 ohms it would be stable. Some amps can do it, some can't. And the determining factor is the impedance of the driver/drivers.

This is an edit: I failed to mention that if Jasons amp is a 2-channel and is bridged mono it would cause problems with his DVC driver. If his amp is 4-channel and run 2-channel bridged stereo to a "dual" voice coil driver it would be more stable.