Great video Jiles! You did a great job on the mods and thank you so much for the work. The amp is performing great in the front of our movie room powering two HS-24's.
Does noctua fans not work? Also you should really point out the dangers of doing this especially since you plugged it in then opened it right away and those capacitors could kill you...
I did this on my FP10000q but I used resistors on the small fans to slow them down even more, and these act as the connectors. For the large fans I just desoldered the existing fan cables off the board and soldered on the new fans instead of using connectors. It runs dead silent, I had to verify the fans were spinning it is so quiet.
@@JilesMcCoy these are the two part numbers off digikey but they are gone now. 1570-1259-ND and P14751-ND. But the specs are still there the 60mm fan is 28dba and the 80mm was only 19. But that is out of the box I also placed a resistor on the 60mm fans to slow down the 4000rpm. So they are probably closer to the 19dba of the 80mm in reality. The nice thing about digikey is that you can use their advanced search filters to find the exact part you’re looking for with the specs you want. That is basically what I did since these exact parts come and go so often. As long as you can find something with similar specs you should be good. Another good site is mouser. Sometimes I go on there if digikey is out of stock.
Awesome video! I get that these small parts go in and out of stock a lot. If I shop for them what specs do I look for? Also, if I got the 220/240V version of the amp do I also need a 220/230/240VAC fan?
@@JilesMcCoy Thanks for the reply, I am doing an audio installation in a club in Glasgow and I am looking for a powerful bass amp... I am really tempted, the build quality looks amazing for the money
I'd go for something like noctua for the fan replacements, they make the best of the best, I bet you could find options that could skim off even more noise, these aren't bad for being Chinese knock offs of the real labgruppen amps, i would never use them in a real pro environment as nothing beats the original's in build or quality, but these clones are a good value when they work for non critical situations. Always a risk, from what I've been reading it can be luck of the draw with them, especially if you get the 4 channel versions, I've seen a lot of complaints, the company also doesn't stand by customers much either... Since you have a decent following here, they are more likely to help you in a pinch than the average Joe with out a following because they know you'd say something otherwise... Still, I'd still try them though but go though it fully, I'm willing to bet none of the transistors are actually beta matched and that is why a transistor or two always pop....
Did you use this to power your M18s? I was thinking this amp might be a good upgrade over my old inuke 6k as it seems to run out of steam easily enough. Hoping these would push them closer to their limits.
@@JilesMcCoy definitely enjoyed that video in the past. I guess what I'm really asking is if you ever upgraded to 30amps and let it all hang out with the M18. I know my inuke quite WAY before the sub!
No the 20000 has many small fans on the back. Not sure you can mod these with much success maybe if you placed resistors on the existing fans to slow them down.
They would work for the 4 internal but there are several fans across the rear of that unit that are the really loud ones. I’ve never heard of any successful way to make those quiet.
I appreciate the video but it's kinda weird that even after someone asked you and you said it was in the notes, I still don't see what 80mm fan you used. What would really be useful is simply giving the original fans' airflow specs and thickness, that and voltage should be all you need to find replacements.
@@JilesMcCoyThanks for replying. I understand, that's why I was asking about the air flow, do you know by any chance? I couldn't get info searching the one part part number I found online. How did you determine which fan do get for the replacement?
@@robs7063 The ones in my unit were recommended on an AVS forum thread a few years ago. They have long since not been available. The ones used in this video were provided by the owner of the amp. I just dropped them in for him so I could film the process.
@@JilesMcCoy no I used the Facebook and the WhatsApp contact also used the sales team on email. They wanted a video of what was happening so I showed them. Then had to take it apart and show them on video the channel was out. I have been trying to contact them for over 6 months. Finally I found out it was a transistor and guess who is going to end up fixing it... Me
