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Old     (Jmorlan)      Join Date: May 2013       03-21-2015, 8:11 AM Reply   
I'd like to start this off with a little background info on Taramps. They are an amplifier company out of brazil who make an amazingly efficient amplifier, basing their power off of resting battery voltage. Why do they do this? Well, because in Brazil audio competitions they run their set ups off of resting battery banks. (Hey sounds kind of familiar!)
They do not believe in running the charging system during their competitions/play time. (See where I'm headed?)
So, they build their amplifiers around battery banks. This is not something we are familiar with in America, as our competitions are based differently, and our amps are made differently. 90% of us use amps made in korea, with power based off of running, charging battery systems.
Taramps bases their rms from 12.6v, and what's even better, you can still make more power when the batteries are charging.
They make them in all shapes and sizes anywhere from 1000w-30k, and what's even better is they carry a very small footprint! Another thing in which us boaters are concerned about! Space! They utilize a different heatsink and use electric fans for cooling vs a massive Korean heatsink to cool.
It gets better though, they configure them to make full power in either 1ohm models, or 2ohm. So, effectively, you can run the amp at 2ohm and still get the entire power output, instead of dropping the ohms, and increasing the load, which also does what? Creates heat. We do not like heat, and I know some of your guys amps go into protect sometimes after hard play time, due to what? Heat.

The downfall these amps get knocked for, is they are somewhat more fragile. They should not be mounted to the box like some people like to do, the cystic vibration ruins these amps, but if mounted to the hull on am amp rack, like I'm sure most 99.9% of us do, it is a non issue! Also, they have assured me, because I was nervous about this after hearing about how they can not be box mointed, a rough water ride in the boat will NOT affect these amplifiers. Only the pulsing bass vibration when mounted to the box. The 2nd downfall, is again, based around battery banks, which most people do not want to have 3,4, or more batteries in their vehicles to provide for these amps. Well guess what! Isn't that what most of us have in our boats anyway? Don't let me lose you yet, I'm almost done.

So if we want to talk about efficiency, what if I told you, you could get your full 3000w rms, at 12.6v, running @ 2ohms from your amp! That's unheard of! But it gets better, that amp will produce even more power @ 13.8v as they base their output around that 12.6 voltage.

I know it seems foreign to us, well party because it is, but if we can get passed the numbers and ratings that we are used to, I think these Taramps are a no brainer for us in the boating world. They were designed exactly around what we do.
Battery banks resting playing music so we don't have to run our engines and rack hours just to hear our tunes.

I have no affiliation with this company, nor nothing to gain. I have simply spent a month researching the best options I can find to run my tunes efficiently, as this summer my build is quite substantial.
So with dollars and space a major aspect of savings, I set out to find the best option.

I thought I'd share a little info as this seems like the answer we all look for.
They also make multi channel amps as well based around the same principles.

And last but not least, price. They are pretty fairly priced imo.

So hop on Google and dig in a little, I think you'll all be pleasantly surprised and pleased with the outcome.

 
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