ROCKFORD FOSGATE Home Amplifier

These things have UNGODLY amounts of POWER!!!

You appear to know a little bit about the Rockford Fosgate RF2000 home amps, thus explaining how you arrived here, I have not been able to find hardly any information on these amps, everything here is from the manual, the schematic and a few magazine articles and my own knowledge about this amp.

Back in 1987 Rockford Corp merged or acquired Hafler, which made home amplifiers. Thus the RF2000/PRF2000 amplifier and RF200 pre amp were conceived, and manufactured. I picked up my first RF2000 a PRO model (PRF2000) at a stereo sale here in Houston at the George R. Brown convention center, it was one of the cheesy flea market type of sales, back in 91 or 92 for around $400 I picked up my second RF2000 by posting a wanted add on rockfordfosgate.com wanted forums. My third RF2000, I picked up from craigslist. And the was 4th and 5th from 2 different ebay auctions and I have no idea what I am going to use them for,, maybe I will do a 7.1 system instead of a 5.1 or I could use one amp per channel (front right, front left, center, rear right, rear left) my sub has a amp built in. These amps don't have much inside, and from talking to a buddy of mine that used to do repair for rockford he says these amps are very close to the Power 1000 in the car market, there are 2 big ass caps for 80000 micro farads of storage, and a donut transformer in the bottom and a power distribution board down on the bottom then the audio board up top. The audio connections inside between the board and speaker terminals are the same that are used in the Power 300, 650, 1000 car amplifiers, the fan uses the same molex as the Power 650 4.5" fan. Slight differences in the face plate silk screening, no idea why. This amp will handle 8, 4 and 2 ohm loads and the manual states the power output for a 8 ohm load is 200 watts per channel, 600 watts when bridged into a single 8 ohm load, this is a very very conservative rating.

Heres the first three in the entertainmanet center I made myself, its birch.

Just over 3000 watts total!!!

A little dusty, my house is always dusty.

Then there was four. Forth came from ebay.
Just over 4000 watts total!!!

And then five. From ebay as well.
Just over 5000 watts total!!!

And now I have 6 of RF2000

A bit blury but you get thejust of it.

From the back you can see here the top one is the PRF2000,the only other differences are the additional 3 pin (XLR) inputs and the 1/4" input,
other than that, they are the same internally.

Below is the front plate from the PRF2000, it had handles that i remvoed so it could be mounted in a 19" rack..

Heres a closeup shot of the PRF2000 back.

Here's some shots of the internals. Some of the amps have blue air damn, and some have red. The boards are all laid out the same, I don't see any revision markings.

Heres the top of the audio board, 16 FETS per channel

Here's the bottom of the audio board, with the power board removed.

Here's the power board, each cap is 42,000 micro farads. The donut transformer is good for 1000 VA

Close up of the power board bus

Here's the output and fan board

Below is the amp I picked up from a Rockford Employee via the RF discussion forums, the story is he won it at a Rockford company picnic as a door prize. WOW!!!
B stock??? it sounds fine!!! Board 14

This is the board in the PRF model, board 30, P for PRO?? None of the others have this P

Close up of the PRF2000 pcb serial number.

Here's another D0047

And another F0045

And another F0014

This amp was defective when i picked it up, the bridge rectifiers were bad on the power supply board,
it was a good deal so I couldnt pass it up and has a chrome face plate.
SWEET!!!

Now to explain why I have 6 of these, well they loads of power and they are bullet proof, and I am a Rockford Fanatic.

NOTE, power is NOT the most important thing, but more power allows me to turn up the volume loud as hell before distortion begins.

I found this listing on Ebay, no I did not buy it, it is a Hafler JF2000, Signature series, the JF2000's are RF2000's just with a Hafler name on the face plate.

Stereo Review June 1989, and yes these are scans from my magazine.

Who in their right mind is going to stay with 5 amp speaker fuses??? NOT ME, Im using 25 amp fuses, I haven't blown one yet and I do watch movies very loud, my Klipsch speakers are only rated at 200 watts rms, but they take the punishment

Here is the RF2000 manual. Here is the schematic
If you have any other info or know of any other web sites please

Here's my old skool Power 650 car amps.

September 23, 2009