RMS Power for Ti Elite 6.5's

MattCraneCustoms · Post by **MattCraneCustoms** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:01 pm

Evening all,
Can someone please confirm to me, the RMS power PER SIDE of the Ti 6 components? The manual states power handling at 300W RMS, but I guess this is total? It shows the recommended amp as a 600.2 connected to the crossover, and this does 150W RMS per channel at 4 ohms, so am I correct?
Thanks in advance,
Matt

1moreamp · Post by **1moreamp** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:34 pm

I have heard its not good to under power these. ZPA 0.3's and Ti-600.2's would seem to be the recommended hookups.
I think a little outside the box so I only have ZPA 0.5's and Xenon 200.4's that I would consider using

< you can always turn a big amp down, but you can never turn a small amp big >

Amps are inexpensive, think big... You will thank yourself later....C

PS, I had VW337 tell me to "bridge a Xenon 200.4 into a set" a while back if I really wanted to hear something special, and he should know as he worked for PG .... hope this helps...

MattCraneCustoms · Post by **MattCraneCustoms** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:56 pm

so a bridged 200.4 would give you 400W RMS into 2 channels . . so if I give them 270W RMS a side off a rainbow amp I should be ok? . . .
Cheers
Matt

Post by **stipud** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:57 pm

75-300 watts is plenty. It can definitely handle 270 RMS, but you have to make sure your gains are set properly -- NO CLIPPING -- or the tweeters could fry.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:55 pm

How much power is your 500.4 sending to your Elites, Tom? It's impressively loud and if I recall correctly, it's not that much power.

BenVollmer · Post by **BenVollmer** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:03 pm

I ran right around 400 watts to each pair.... DO NOT under power. The Xover eats WAY too much power..... Feed em all of the power that is clean you can...

Post by **stipud** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:09 pm

fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:How much power is your 500.4 sending to your Elites, Tom? It's impressively loud and if I recall correctly, it's not that much power.

Gain matched for 75 watts RMS at full output. Crossover probably eats about 25, so you get 50 or so going to the speakers. Plenty loud for me!

joyride · Post by **joyride** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:35 am

Im also runnng them off a zx450 on the front side. I dont need it louder than the 75 or so they are getting.

Post by **smgreen20** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:27 am

I'm in the middle of reading on how to build my own custom passive crossovers. One of the things I came across in the material was that on average, for every order the slope is, it's roughly 5% lost in power consumption. A 1st order (6 dB slope) would be at 5%, a 4th order (24 dB slope, ie the Elite Xover) would be about a 20% power loss.

I'm running a ZPA0.3 to my Elite6's set at 225 wrms per side.

So at 225 wrms, I'm loosing about 45 wrms in heat from the Xover.

seandiguer · Post by **seandiguer** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:23 am

So would my M50 part of the outlaw be enough for these?

Haz · Post by **Haz** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:04 am

I am planning on running a Ti951 set from a MS1000 (dr. fosgate's modified one). Where do you think I should set the gains for the ti9's and the ti5's. And the headunit is the Alpine F1 DVI-9990 + H990 processor so its a 4V output (says on the manual).

Or should I run the Ti5 comp off the Ti500.4 active and the Ti9's off the MS1000? (this will allow me to control every speaker via the H990 processor and the tweeter will not be next to the mids they will be in the a-pillars)

P.S Sorry for hijacking the thread

Haz