I have my Cobra 148GTL set at 1 1/2 dk into amp but what difference does it make when my audio peaks at 13 watts
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1 1/2 DK why when audio peaks 13 watts
- Thread starter hammer0630
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The amp needs the correct AM dead key input to work right. The way your 148 is set right now it would rock with a Texas Star 350 HDV. On AM for example, you might see the amp dead key 80 ish watts and swing 275 er so. If you raise the radio's dead key to 4 watts the amp will now key 130-140, be on the edge of sounding pinched up, and run very hot. You will also burn the variable pot, keying transistor, and the amp itself much faster. The peak wattage will no go up at all with a higher dead key either.
run that into a 667 and look out, one order of audio monster please, hold the mayo
It is interesting while adjusting my am wattage on my 148 with the amp on what a difference a few watts make nearly a hundred from the inside of my 148. What is just as interesting when set low one watt with audio the end result in wattage rises to nearly the same out put as as dk'ing eight watts just less forward swing of course. The one thing that you would think that would make a difference between four watts and one & half would be running bare foot. But running the same roads everyday in my mobile Cobra 29 LTD I can not see a difference in my receive coming from my base Cobra 148GTL. It seems like an all win situation! Well after saying this it's probably because my audio is still producing thirteen watts. There has to be some kind of down side please let me know.