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Default My amplifiers got really hot today

I know my RF P8002 Gets hot as hell around here [Northern Virginia, it
gets near 100F some day] but ive never heard a decrease in performance,
and the amp has yet to go into thermal protect, although it did when i
get rid of my audiobahn and ran it for 30 minutes @ full tilt on a 10HZ
note, it didnt like that @ all, i couldnt even touch the thing.


I dont think I ever had an amp that DIDN'T run hot when I'm pounding
em.. I've ran RF's in the past and I have Kickers now, they've ALL
shut down via thermal protection if I don't have fans on em. I run them
in pretty tight spaces though, but still, how can amps NOT run hot??

12v fans on ebay are really cheap, I use ones made for PC cases,
standard 80mm.. My amps wouldn't last 1/2 hour without shutting down
if I didn't have em. LED fans look cool too, not that you can see em
in my setup anyway..