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Old 03-20-2007
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Is it possible that the 100W panels are indeed NOT 100W panels? What if they were 130's? This is going to sound like I am slamming their product... and I am not in any way (or accusing them of being dishonest)... but it would be a pretty slick idea to make your product look better than what it is if you say it has 100W panels but they actualy put in 130W panels. Also, very cold weather will allow a panel to put out more than rated. However, I doubt that is the temps in merrit Island, FL, as I beleive it may require something at or close to zero F.

Cam, you were in the sound business as I recall. Isn't that a little trick Alpine & Blaupunct?(sp??) used many years ago in the shows so their amps were rated to get into a low amp sound class but were in fact higher rated amps??? I don't know. My memory gets fuzzy.
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