Thanks John. OK, it took me a couple of reads to understand the consumption part.
I am still confused as the Peavey guy told me that it would not do continuous output at full rated power. I think that is where the 2 ohm output being breaker limited comes from.
So, someone at UL or similar organization /facility put this thing on a bench and tested it continuously at its full rated power.?
The indication from the numbers is that since the 1/3rd power figure is 533 watts({2x800}/3), the efficiency at that output is about 533/1160=45.9%.
You lost me on that last part. The 1160 watts is a single channel? My assumption was that since there was no specification of channels, the 1160 watts would be total consumption for both channels of output. Should it not be 533/580 which gives us 91% efficiency? That would fit wwith the stated efficiency of class D amps.
