Originally Posted by
MCOR
JL reps have told us that their HD amps are the platform for data communication. There is some discussion privately about how BIG this will be. Both for JL and/or their dealers to see what the amp has been through (when that kid leaves the shop and goes for a screwdriver to crank the gains up), tempuratures, moisture, etc. Also-would make it easily possible to "lock" the amps-similar to what Directed dealers can do with the Bitwriter on the DEI (Viper, etc) alarms.
It would hopefully be tunable, adjustable, etc through use of a USB connection to a laptop. We'll see. This is VERY close on the horizon...
That would be great for any of the higher quality brand amps especially the ability to lock the amp then only authorized dealers could adjust them which would save lots of amps from melt downs.
Or the ability to check and see if there had been voltage drops or gain adjustments, temperature increases or the presence of moisture via some kind of memory programming.
Sounds like a great idea and it would pay for itself relativly quickly because of the amps that would no longer need to be warrantied because of the ability to prevent abuse.