HHR Ed

Ho Tony, welcome to the forum First off, both those cars are difficult to get loud, so they should be evenly matched. Secondly, both of your setups would be very closely matched so its too hard to tell. You just want to make sure you have the best ported box you can make. If you really want be sure you beat him, you have to step up to a more capable woofer and more power, But you may not be ready to do that. Start with what you have, see where you are at, and you can upgrade little by little from that point.

are you measuring with the woofer connected to the amp? because you shouldnt do that

Nice car, Nice woofers

I feed him Foots

What works for you and what works for someone else, or even whats the best thing to do is all different. As you said, you are hindered a few dB. Perhaps the OP is not in any fuse limited class, does not want to hinder a few dBs, and does not want to pop a fuse every time he plays a song. The BEST thing to do is to fuse for the power wire, not the amp. You would use a few lengths of 0awg for that amp and the fuses are meant to protect the car if that wire were to come loose and ground out. At about 12ft, a 0awg wire is capable of carrying 300+ Amps of current, so your fuse should pop before it reached that point. The key is to get the max rated fuse on that wire as to not restrict current flow but stay under the wire rating so that the fuse would still do it's job. 250A on each 0awg would be great.

Thank you, I do have access to a gravitational model computer program, but i do not have enough data to trace back to the 2nd gen star. I am sure there are many variances in gravity to be accounted for that may not be known, such as a black hole passing by the wave, or even the idea that 2 waves collided. but with enough data and work, I think it can be done.

Nice thread. I love those thoughts I've always liked the fact that we were born from the core of a star. -Our sun is a 3rd generation star. In the core of a star, atoms of Hydrogen are fused together into more dense, complex atoms of Helium. The fusion process continues through all of the natural elements until we have all of the heavier atoms like Iron, Gold, Carbon and the others. Billions of years ago, a 2nd Generation star went SuperNova and exploded all of these elements into space. The elements settled and combined with gas clouds in regions of the Milky Way Galaxy. After condensing under it's own gravity and coalescing, our solar system was formed and thusly so was the Earth, and in due time, you were born containing those vary atoms that traversed the cosmos to become you. I had an idea that may be probable. To trace back through time the movements of our solar system, and find the trajectory of the shock wave that brought heavy particles from the 2nd Gen start that had exploded. Then we can find the radius of that shock wave, then determine it's movements forward through time. Then, if we look in the area of that shock wave and find solar systems, it is feasible that life could have arose in those solar systems as well, given that their atomic signature will be very similar to ours. This would make it that any life in those places would be our cosmic brothers and sisters. -I also have another thought on the model of gravity. I always hated the trampoline fabric bending model. Instead, I propose that Gravity is like the opposite of displacement. Instead of a large body such as the Earth pushing a medium out, it pulls a medium (in this case "Space-Time") Towards itself. This effectively can distort Space=Time to the effect that a "Unit" of Space-Time is smaller as we get closer to the large body. This would create the perception that we travel faster as we get closer and closer to the Earth. This would also make it appear as if the Earth would draw us in, or Space-Time would push us into the Earth.

do you have access to a multi-meter? I'd use a relay anyway. Much safer than going straight through a switch. Is your wire fused?

Emergency Medical situation 101. If someone is laying on the ground twitching from a massive head wound you should do the following..... A. Take a cell phone pic? B. Drag them by their legs into a car? C. Both as depicted in the vid by the group of jackasses?

2) 15s and 6000w is tough to get to a 150 and unless an extreme car, 159 is impossible in this day and age.

JD was just joking. It was under a picture he posted building customers woofers.

I doubt what he said about if there was no JL there would be no AA is true. Scott Atwell who started Fi AA has been around for many years and has done more than just RE in the past. He's a smart businessman as well as designer. He'd be doing it with or without the existence of JL.

And if you watch the vid at about th 6:00 mark. You can see all 6 new screws holding the basket to the motor and I even put dabs of glue to hold them. And I put dabs of GOOP between the basket and motor.

That pic was before I screwed it all down. The motor is from a 10" RE I think, and I put a 12" RF basket on it. Pic was taken before I grinded the basket.

some pics of the day

Ever wanted to see how some veterans recone a woofer. I just did a vid showing my techniques

he's no nerd though. this is our nerd music idol

130-140 dB

New entry

Ive seen the issue before. It is cause by 1 of 2 reasons. 1. The woofer is severely over powered. 2. The signal from the amplifier is clipping (distorted)

are you serious that you dont know?

It was a T3 under cap piece.

I used to charge $45 per hour to deaden. Doing a trunk in the proper fashion with plenty of deadener, expanding foam, and caulk may take 2 hours for me. A quick slap on of 1 layer of matt deadener will be a 45 minute job.