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Old 06-18-2012, 12:57 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by myrefugeisintheLord View Post
...subwoofer with 800 additional watts being drawn and probably an extra 30 lbs of weight...
You're probably not actually drawing 800 watts with your subwoofer, ever. That's a lot of power, and it's probably what it's rated to handle. How often do you actually max out your sub? With that kind of power, you're probably drawing less than 10% of maximum most of the time. It's still weight, and it's still about the same as running an extra pair of headlights whenever you listen to the stereo, but 800W in a car that size would have you completely deaf in a year.
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