R.I.P.S. System™
R.I.P.S. stands for "Regulated, Intelligent Power Supply" and is a central feature of JL Audio's “Slash” series amplifiers. The remarkable R.I.P.S. System™ ensures consistent power delivery over a wide range of battery voltages and load impedances.Patented Class D amplifier circuit represents a huge breakthrough in sub-bass fidelity, due to its extremely high damping factor. The bottom line of the R.I.P.S. system is: Optimum power, at any impedance between 1.5 ohm and 4 ohm per channel, at any vehicle voltage between 11V and 14.5V.
Most car audio amplifiers rely on big lumps of aluminum that do a good job of storing heat, but a pretty poor job of actually getting rid of it. Because we demand the highest performance from the “Slash” series amplifiers, they feature a real cast-aluminum heat sink with vertically-oriented fins that are highly effective at dissipating heat from the amplifier via convection and radiation. The design of this heat sink was achieved through extensive finite-element analysis, resulting in amplifiers that keep their cool under the most demanding conditions.