How many watts from an old Rockford Fosgate 40x2?

[coolest user 10+ year member]

Hey all, how many watts can I get out of an old RF 40x2 amp. And is it 2 ohm stable when bridged mono?

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[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

What model?

 

[Macklessdaddy 10+ year member]

Hey all, how many watts can I get out of an old RF 40x2 amp. And is it 2 ohm stable when bridged mono?

about 817.3659874512032587453698741 wattsessssssss,seriously man we do not have espn:laugh:

 

[coolest user 10+ year member]

What model?

It says on it... punch 40x2 trans.ana

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[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

I'm going out on a limb here and going to say

40 watts per channel

Total of 2 channels

Proper voltage, I'd say around 55-60 per channel as they were slightly underrated.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Id argee with the above statement

 

[coolest user 10+ year member]

Ok, and how about being 2 ohm stable when bridged mono?

It seems like some of the old school amps (in general, not RF) were under rated... like a 22x2 amp doing a couple hundred watts bridged.

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[spnkysprky 10+ year member]

According to the owners manual it Dynamic power(14.4volts) is 175watts mono @ 4 ohms

80 watts x 2 @ 2 ohms,60 x 2 @ 4 ohms

Power at 12.6 volts is 20 x 2 @ 4 ohms

40 x 2 @ 2 ohms

80 x 1 @ 4 ohms

Yes,Rockford were great amps then.They could achieve great thing so long as you didnt starve them of power/voltage...here is a link to the owners manual...its a pdf file

http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/fattach_get.php?p_sid=ZRxvLLVi&p_tbl=9&p_id=380&p_created=1084295973

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

i wish all amps were rated like that today....

 

[oldschool4me 10+ year member]

According to the owners manual it Dynamic power(14.4volts) is 175watts mono @ 4 ohms80 watts x 2 @ 2 ohms,60 x 2 @ 4 ohms

Power at 12.6 volts is 20 x 2 @ 4 ohms

40 x 2 @ 2 ohms

80 x 1 @ 4 ohms

Yes,Rockford were great amps then.They could achieve great thing so long as you didnt starve them of power/voltage...here is a link to the owners manual...its a pdf file

http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/fattach_get.php?p_sid=ZRxvLLVi&p_tbl=9&p_id=380&p_created=1084295973

this is what you got, there was punch 40, 40i, 40ix, 40x2. they just didnt change the amps design as frequently as they do today.

 

[oldschool4me 10+ year member]

i wish all amps were rated like that today....

i agree, im from the os and it sickens me what has happened to amplifier ratings. wiped out a few competition classes along the way. no more 100w, 250w, 500w classes. that *****, the 100w class was my personal favorite. you had to be very creative to do well in that class.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Dynamic watts is the ****.

 

[spnkysprky 10+ year member]

i agree, im from the os and it sickens me what has happened to amplifier ratings. wiped out a few competition classes along the way. no more 100w, 250w, 500w classes. that *****, the 100w class was my personal favorite. you had to be very creative to do well in that class.

Hell yea!And if you had a 1000 watts you were pro...now a days 1000 watts just aint the same.It would be novice to say the least.We would need 3000watts today to even come close to back then

 

[spnkysprky 10+ year member]

Hey all, how many watts can I get out of an old RF 40x2 amp. And is it 2 ohm stable when bridged mono?

Technically NO...But I ran mine at 2ohm bridged and it screamed.It worked but I was dumb then.I figured if it couldnt handle it..then the fuse would blow.Ive had a couple that held at and 2 ohm bridged but did have 1...a punch 200 dsm that only lasted about 3 months at 2 ohm then finally gave out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif...I personally wouldnt try it now on such a lovely amp

 

[coolest user 10+ year member]

Thanks everyone for the info on this old Rockford, and thanks spnkysprky for the pdf file. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif