SAE 1000D

[eknine9 0]

1. I'm in the middle of buying an SAE 1000d from a member of another forum and I'm curious about how many amps is this going to draw, I was guessing around a 150 amp fuse (guessed draw to be around 125 amps) assumed .8 efficiency) to be safe, but I'm not sure, and I figured someone on here could give me a much more accurate number and maybe even a link to fuses that would perfectly fit my system.

2. Also I've looked at other topics concerning this amp and it seems that it has 2 positive and 2 negative ports for the speaker wire... but it's a monoblock amp? Once I get the amp i plan on hooking it up to my two Alpine Type R's and I'm wondering, do I hook them up separately so each gets one neg and one positive, or should I just run them through together so both subs share one positive and one negative. I would assume I would put them all in seperate plugs on the amp, but the last time I assumed I blew 2 fuses in a head unit, so better safe than sorry, how should I hook these up?

3. You've got a great product here Jacob, and depending on how this 1000D performs I might be sticking with sundown from now on just because of word of mouth, apparently these amps are awesome.

Once I receive the amp I might have a couple more questions, might not, thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer me,

[buickid 0]

I can answer Question 2.

The terminals are bridged internally, ie. the two positives and two negatives are connected internally. So it doesn't matter if you connect them separately, or together.

[sundownz 197]

1) Fusing is 90 amps -- thats plenty for it It's quite efficiency. Actual draw at 1 ohm / full output is a bit over 100 amps, the fuses can stand that for 20+ minutes (well within tolerance).

2) Steve is correct.

3) Thanks, I'm sure you will be pleased!

[eknine9 0]

Awesome, thanks for all the help, I get how the terminals work and thanks for answering my question jacob... that was REALLY fast. Once again, awesome and thanks guys, if I have any more questions I'll ask.

[buickid 0]

Glad I could help! We're always here. Well, I mean I am. Cause I have no life beside SSA. >.>

[eknine9 0]

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4. My 1000D came in last night and I hooked it up today, everything is working fine, but there is one thing I'm not familiar with. On the side next to all of the controls there is a knob for "Phase," it ranges from 0 to 180, what exactly does this do?

5. My subs only came with one banana plug each but they are able to handle a 1 ohm load, until I have a real set of banana plugs come in, is it safe for me to trim some speaker wire and use that to make the jump from pos. to pos. and neg. to neg. on my voice coils, or is this dangerous?

Thanks guys

Edited December 22, 2007 by AlpineForever

[johnecon2001 82]

The phase knob flips the polarity on the output of the amp from positive out of the positive and negative out of the negative to the exact opposite of that.

Using spare speaker wire for a jumper is fine. Just make sure the connection is nice and tight.