philrab
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Having lived through, and been part of the relief and rescue mission in NOLA after Hurricane Katrina, I've seen a lot of this crap. Some people are juT flat out opportunistic asshats that think they're entitled to the shit other people pay for and will take anything not bolted or welded in place as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
This guy pretty much summed it all up. Share it around.
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Steve, question. Was the original lightbar you purchased advertised and sold as a Rigid product? Just curious, I know in other facets of aftermarket parts counterfeit Chinese crap is a bit issue.
Always wondered if anyone ever got stung by counterfeit subs/amps/ect.
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Jensen two channel. Think it was like 150x2 @ 4 ohms, probably wasn't though. Set the gain by ear, played my subs way below tuning freq, blew two subs a year till I got rid of the car. Was a kid and new no better.
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Figured it'd only be a matter of time....this is just getting better.
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Finger looks nasty man, glad you two were okay.
For the finger and discomfort, Doctor Phil prescribes a highball glass of liquor and a cigar. Always makes me feel better after a rough day.
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I have been working as a mechanic for the last 5 years. The first 4 as an aircraft mechanic, now as a car mechanic. I actually think I spend as much time with my ring off as I do on. For safety reasons of course. We would always get safety lectures about wearing rings and the attention grabber they used was of something called gloving. Basically your ring gets stuck somewhere, something moves, the ring comes off whether the skin on your finger wants it to or not..... not a pretty sight look it up on google images
edit never realized there were 3 pages and somebody already posted about this
Like there's an echo in here. : )
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To this day, I take my wedding band off every time. When I was a helicopter mechanic in the Army, someone showed me a picture of a finger stuck on the side of an aircraft. Guy had his band off, was climbing down, got the band caught on the head of a screw, and it took all the skin and meat of his ring finger clean off.
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Still blows me away that Meade's "half assed" is cleaner than most of our "throwing everything we have at a build and the kitchen sink."
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Looking to rent a dd1
Anyone know of any shops or anyone in the Bay Area with a dd1 to tune my system?
Would appreciate any info
Where are you located?
There's a thread compiling all the members with SMD equipment and their locations, have to hunt for it though.
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Bought mine, used it once, now I preach the good word to anyone that will listen. No one can justify not using one of these in car audio.
Its affordable as Hell, accurate, and most importantly repeatable. No one's ears are good enough to set 10/10 amps right at the limit. This thing had my gains dialed in first try, and its simple enough that right out of the box I was confidently following the directions.
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Deck doesnt clip at 35/35 sw level 1
Deck doesnt clip at 34/35 sw level 3
Deck doesnt clip at 33/35 sw level 5
Would these all be the same in the end for loudness? Should i just use the 35/35 and sw level 1 and then set gain or would choosing the highest sw level unclipped be the loudest?
I want to say there is no difference in the end because the amp will just be set higher or lower depending what HU volume i pick
Right now i have it tuned at 35/35 sw level 1.
Sounds right to me. The goal is to get max power out of the amp without clipping/distortion. Turning up the SW level is going to mean more voltage on the line level out, which means less gain to increase the voltage through the amp that the sub will see, but the max voltage coming out of the amp should be the same. The amplifier, if you want to look at it this way, is a voltage multiplier with a maximum CLEAN output. More voltage input, less gain/multiplication, same output.
Does that kinda make sense?
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Yep, another federal worker making the rest of us that actually try to DO OUR JOBS look like a bunch of assholes. Thanks shithead.
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Just went through this same situation on a newly installed Kenwood Excelon KDC-X997. Volume maxed out, no distortion on the subwoofer out. Cranked the subwoofer output from 0 (range is -15 to +15) to max, and managed to max out the amp.
Just goes to show every head unit is different.
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i can't wait!! thanks! oh, and welcome to the forumWow steve that would look amazing. It's nice to see Rockford spicing it up a bit
Meade, thought you'd enjoy this. My wife's cousin showed up for 4th of July festivities (family land, way back in the woods) in his brand new Polaris Rzr. I pulled him aside and showed him what you'd done to yours, and filled his head full of bad ideas.
Now, his wife hates you (and didn't know who you were two minutes before I whipped out my phone) and me for showing him. Here's to inspiring others through your work man.
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A. I studied martial arts years ago (through highschool, little here and there while I was in the military.) 99% of the time a jump spinning kick like that is suicide in the ring. It broadcasts itself too well, and you trade too much speed for power.
B. The 1% when that kick is actually appropriate IS NOT in a full on frontal attack where you opponent can see you coming and easily dodge, OR step forward to close the distance.
C. Just as a spectator, it looks as if the kick was started far too close and simply overshot.
I've done that kick, years ago when I was in better shape and more limber. It's fairly devastating if landed, but it's like a wild haymaker. They only have a reasonable chance of succes in certain situations, and toe to toe isn't one of them.
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CleanSierra took the words out of my mouth; maybe an air leak. I run well over rated power on my little Image Dynamics ID8, and only time I ever had issues with bottoming out was an air leak. Plugged that up, and she's right back in action.
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Ridiculous. The system in Meade's ATV is nicer than what most of us out in our cars. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
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Where's the fuel tank ??
If memory serves me, under the back seat forward of the trunk.
This DGAF build is cleaner and better laid out than half the "Professional" shop builds I've seen.
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Think you work the exact opposite most of us do, where we start out wanting to do Meade work on everything and by the end of the job we just want the damned thing done. Looking forward to the rest of the OCD that's sure to come.thanks
i am doing a lil more givin' a fuckin' then i planned on. First the hole....that was total dgaf. But the drop down rack will be g.a.f. because i can't have garbage work no matter how hard i try
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Battery won't discharge, but I have proven it will cause creative use and combinations of profanity if you happen to accidentally kick that sneaky bastard.
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Sagging rear could be fixed by welding in some steel rod between two of the coils. Every set of coils in a spring you make inactive (no longer compress) you make the spring stiffer.
Sounds like a horrible idea.
It's been done before, albeit in a different fashion. Trailer shops usually carry "spring helpers" for coil springs. They're just spacers that install between the coils, and by preventing two or more sets of coils from compressing together they increase the rate of the spring.
Just throwing it out there is Steve wanted to save the cost of coilovers to get the car's rear end jacked back up.
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Sagging rear could be fixed by welding in some steel rod between two of the coils. Every set of coils in a spring you make inactive (no longer compress) you make the spring stiffer.
Wonder how this is going to end..gif){kind=small}
The reason i wait to hear facts before i judge.....or decide to burn my own city down and loot.
in Off Topic - Random, Misc posts - the forum "Junk Drawer"
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Agreed, several close friends and half my family are all LEO's.