Sunday, November 24, 2013

How Many Amplifiers Should a Swiftlet Farm Have?

The most common question asked, "How many Amplifiers should a Swiftlet farm have?"

There are many answers to this question but, for me, I stick to fact, common sense and most importantly what  the birds actually wanted.

My recommendation is simple, each floor of a Swiftlet farm should one Amplifier and another one for external sound. The advantages are:

1) No overloading. Overloaded Amplifiers don't produce good quality sound. By giving any Amplifier loaded with more than 150 tweeters (immaterial of how big the Watt is) its sound quality will deteriorate. Even though some claimed to withstand 300 tweeters or more, but in term of sound quality it will be affected.

2) . In even the  tweeters wiring connections defect or short circuit if one floor is without sound ( Internal sound) the other two floors still have sound. So you don't have to worry about your birds running  to your neighbor's farm. You only visit your Swiftlet farm once or twice a month no internal sound is not good for Swiftlet farm.



3) Individual floor Amplifier will last longer, easily more than 3 years at least on a 24/7 run. A longer life span, as the internal parts are not overworked.

4) The system of each Amplifier per floor would eliminate the use of timers for alternate running of Amplifiers. I am sure many of you have been advised to alternately shifting (play) the Amplifiers every 8 or 12 hour interval. This is to prevent overheating. Simple if the Amplifier is not overloaded then it won't be overheated. No overloaded Amplifiers can run 24/7 non-stop.

5) With each floor having an Amplifier, the Tweeter wiring is much easy to install and manage. We know which Tweeter wiring is connected to which Amplifier, and in the event of wiring defect it can be easily identified.

The above picture is from a Swiftlet farm adopting a system of each Amplifier per floor. Three HI-NEST Amplifiers were used. A smart choice indeed. The internal sound runs 24/7 non-stop.

In terms of sound quality.... Swiftlets will love you for using the Hi-Nest Amplifier because the sound it produces make Swiftlets happy.


Good Swiftlet farming All!