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if I were to use the feet section of AC to run to my amp using PVC would i be able to pull more power out of it by keeping it cooler, or would the air be warm by the time it reaches my trunk?
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I know a couple people were doing this a couple years ago in SQ cars for creativity points. If your amps aren't overheating I don't think there would be any benefit to doing this. You wouldn't get any noticeable power increase unless your amp is getting very hot. Even then it wouldn't be noticable to your ears or a SPL meter. If you juts want to do it to do it then that's cool. If you used PVC I don't think the cold air would warm up very much on the way back to the trunk.
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If your amp does get very hot then the ac lines would save wear and tear on your amp. As far as the air getting hot it should stay cold when it gets back there.
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it wouldnt be THAT hard to do, but then again, i dont really think it would be worth it. Definitely creative, and if you can manage to make it look nice you might have something "different" to brag about. No real world gains though.
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i want to run my amp(power 250.2) at 2 ohms. What i wanted to do was cut holes in the PVC and install some aluminum heatsinks. Then attach the heatsink to the transistors so the AC would have to blow across the heatsinks. It would be easy for me to get the pipe back there and look nice.
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RF's heatsink design is very efficient at removing the heat from the transistors, and I would be wary of messing with that. If you can keep the outside heatsink as cool as possible you will be fine.
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Don't forget that ac uses a lot of current. Expensive when you are competing and especially expensive if you are only running a stock alternator. Your amplifiers will not be getting the total amount of current that they need in order to perform to their fullest potential which is devastating in SPL competition.
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another thing there would be alot of humidity that you would be exposing the board, probally not a good idea, although it would look cool at night, like an electrical storm in your car!
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I've thought of this also for SPL use only. But the extra juice required to power the AC would negate any advantages of having your amps running cooler. Correctly installed fans are the best way to go.
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If you'd like to know how my project is going.... Well here goes: Basically I'm going to be running a DEI 1100D on 4 10"s, nuttin major BUT want some creative points (dont know if I'll ever compete, but for my own kicks and giggles) I'm gunna liquid cool it. I bought a transmission cooler, and some old transistor water coolers (10"x8" water cooled plate looking things) off ebay. I plan to wire up a pump and resivoir under the hood, pump water through the tranny cooler to the transistor cooler attached to the back of the amp..... I may also use a peltier device to try and cool the water below air temp... Also I was thinking about, but don't know if it will work, using the water cooler to cool a heatsink in front of a push pull setup of fans, so that the air would be sucked across the cold heat sink and blown across the cold heatsink.... If you check out cpu overclocking sites these guys use all kinda crazy methods to cool.. so I figure what the hey if people are using water in a computer, why not in the car? I know its been done before just not in this manner... Ideas comments welcome as I'm still piecing this thing together! Good luck on how ever you do it, but a low current pump and tranny cooler would draw less than the A/C current wise!
Also - on a side note someone once also water cooled their subs, any comments on this? I think it was Brantley Miller or something like that with a Trans Am? Supposedly improved power handling (makes sense, less heat less chance to fry the thing).
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