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Thank you for putting in your opinion, now, time to answer some of your questions, yes, the only tool I have to test any electrical components at the moment is a multimeter, i’m not an electronics builder I have been into CB radio a little over a year I wanted to step up my game a little bit and got this amp, the meter I’m using is a dosy, I do not believe it has a switch for Pep or average power, I assume that it reads average power. As far as the AM ratio I will do more research into that. Swr in truck is bellow 1.5 with no amp, just over 1.5 with amp inline, the voltage did not drop a lot when I transmitted it went from 13.4 to 13.3, but if brought the rpm’s up real high I saw a little bit more output from the amp not much maybe 20 watts at 13.5 steady. My truck still has factory pcm voltage reg. Now you mentioned heat, when I get home today I’ll have to do some testing with the cover off, but when I was originally troubleshooting the amp, I did notice the heat sink getting pretty hot under not super high load use, from my understanding of these amps that would be the pills transferring heat into the heat sink. As there the only component that makes direct physical contact with the heatsink.

<blockquote data-quote="JimboSlice" data-source="post: 827442" data-attributes="member: 66356"><p>Thank you for putting in your opinion, now, time to answer some of your questions, yes, the only tool I have to test any electrical components at the moment is a multimeter, i’m not an electronics builder I have been into CB radio a little over a year I wanted to step up my game a little bit and got this amp, the meter I’m using is a dosy, I do not believe it has a switch for Pep or average power, I assume that it reads average power. As far as the AM ratio I will do more research into that. Swr in truck is bellow 1.5 with no amp, just over 1.5 with amp inline, the voltage did not drop a lot when I transmitted it went from 13.4 to 13.3,&nbsp; but if brought the rpm’s up real high I saw a little bit more output from the amp not much maybe 20 watts at 13.5 steady.&nbsp; My truck still has factory pcm voltage reg. Now you mentioned heat, when I get home today I’ll have to do some testing with the cover off, but when I was originally troubleshooting the amp, I did notice the heat sink getting pretty hot under not super high load use, from my understanding of these amps that would be the pills transferring heat into the heat sink. As there the only component that makes direct physical contact with the heatsink.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="JimboSlice, post: 827442, member: 66356"] Thank you for putting in your opinion, now, time to answer some of your questions, yes, the only tool I have to test any electrical components at the moment is a multimeter, i’m not an electronics builder I have been into CB radio a little over a year I wanted to step up my game a little bit and got this amp, the meter I’m using is a dosy, I do not believe it has a switch for Pep or average power, I assume that it reads average power. As far as the AM ratio I will do more research into that. Swr in truck is bellow 1.5 with no amp, just over 1.5 with amp inline, the voltage did not drop a lot when I transmitted it went from 13.4 to 13.3, but if brought the rpm’s up real high I saw a little bit more output from the amp not much maybe 20 watts at 13.5 steady. My truck still has factory pcm voltage reg. Now you mentioned heat, when I get home today I’ll have to do some testing with the cover off, but when I was originally troubleshooting the amp, I did notice the heat sink getting pretty hot under not super high load use, from my understanding of these amps that would be the pills transferring heat into the heat sink. As there the only component that makes direct physical contact with the heatsink. [/QUOTE]

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