Bridging Electrocompaniet aw250r


Thinking about purchasing another aw250r and running a pr bridged mono. Does anybody know this is done internally?
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Current drive will stay the same, but current demand will be 2x higher (because of 2x voltage). I would not worry about that since this amp can deliver 100 amperes peak. According to specifications your amp can be bridged and can drive 1 ohm speakers - bridging should work fine, giving you up to 4x power.

As for the damping factor - it is not important! For instance, if your speakers are 6 ohms about 2/3 of the drivers impedance will be resistive - around 4 ohm. This will limit real damping factor to DF=1.5
We don’t want to make it worse but this amp has output impedance 0.008 ohm (20Hz-20kHz). Making it 0.016 ohm will change effective DF from 1.497 to 1.494 (0.2% lower). At least that’s the case for the woofers. I’m not sure about electrostatic part. It supposed to be high impedance, but they use transformers to lower it.