Am I hurting anything?

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:35 am

donpisto wrote:I'd ditch that bandpass box, but if you're trying to ask if the amount of power you are giving will damage the sub..well that deals with a whole lot. The main point is, as long as you are sending clean power, no clipping or whatever to the speaker and there is no distortion you are fine. So you can give your speaker more than the RMS rating..the RMS is simply meaning "on average" so on average its doing 200w or whatever it may be. It can handle less, you can feed the speaker 50 watts and as long as you're giving it clean power and not distorting it you will be fine. Check out http://www.bcae1.com and there is a section on Too Low Power if you're interested in that. It deals with harmonics as well which is a factor of that.

RMS is a thermal rating read over the faq on that. but good info.