How to measure the Power of a Guitar Amplifier

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  • čas přidán 8. 01. 2021
  • This short video explains how you can measure the output power of your guitar amplifier. Step-by-step walk-through.

Komentáře • 15

  • @oscarchambers-smith2046

    Very interesting video this one Stuart. I will let you know how I get on with this procedure!

  • @michaelevans3852
    @michaelevans3852 Před rokem

    Excellent! I guess there are people like me who enjoy this sort of thing. Thanks for the info. I would be curious as to how you determine output transformer ohms.

    • @stuartukguitarampguy5830
      @stuartukguitarampguy5830  Před rokem +1

      Thanks Michael. Do you mean if you have an unknown output transformer and you want to know what impedance speaker (e.g. 8 ohms) it is designed to drive?

    • @michaelevans3852
      @michaelevans3852 Před rokem

      @@stuartukguitarampguy5830 exactly

  • @wsscott72
    @wsscott72 Před 3 měsíci

    Stuart, do you have a video showing how you built your dummy load? I’m using a very simple one, and much less wattage than yours, but thought it might be good to have one like yours. Thanks.

  • @markg9254
    @markg9254 Před 3 lety +1

    Can you fix digital guitar amps?

  • @Pierre2962
    @Pierre2962 Před 19 dny

    Hello Stuart, nice video ! What about the input signal strenght ? How do you figure out the input signal level ?

  • @paulp2033
    @paulp2033 Před rokem

    Great channel Stuart and very helpful. Thanks a lot for the great content.
    Sorry if this is a stupid question but isn’t the speaker value impedance rather than resistance ?
    And if so isn’t the calculation slightly inaccurate ? I think I read somewhere that an 8ohm speaker is around 6ohm as a resistance value. Thanks a lot

    • @stuartukguitarampguy5830
      @stuartukguitarampguy5830  Před rokem +1

      Hmm that's actually a good point. In practice though I've always found it to be correct, e.g. 100W amp gives me about 100W, 50W amp gives me about 50W etc. Techinically you are correct though. Maybe the impedance is always pretty close to the resistance> E.g. 7.2 ohms or something. Not sure.

  • @christophersato3623
    @christophersato3623 Před rokem +1

    this amp consumes 180W right? so it wastes 124W? 180-56=124

  • @allthegearnoidea6752
    @allthegearnoidea6752 Před 2 lety

    Perhaps the customer is getting older and deaf - I am !

    • @stuartukguitarampguy5830
      @stuartukguitarampguy5830  Před 2 lety

      Hi Your comment on my Deoxit vid got bounced, probably due to the w**k word! Can you repost changing that word as I thought it was a good comment. Thanks