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  4. Running system while car is off

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted

    i said don't have it turned up and to periodically start the car to charge the battery. you are getting 0 miles to the gallon with the car sitting there idling even if it only burns a lil bit so you are still wasting gas. Now if you want to demo your system full tilt at a carshow then by all means have the car idling but its ok to have it off at moderate volumes while you wash your car, grill some food in the backyard ect.

    That is a general statement with almost 0 factual information in there. You are also somehow COMPLETELY missing the point where the OP DID NOT say have it at moderate volume levels for short periods of time.

    Even at an idle ur not burnin that much fuel. I have a 5.9L V8 magnum and i've locked my keys in it before and no one could break into my car for me for 4 hrs. I barely lost any gas at all.

    idling is not good for your car for extended periods of time though, it can be extremely taxing on the cooling system especially in the summer heat

    I disagree with this entire statement. An engine is designed to run, and to work, whether you are driving or sitting at idle. As long as nothing is wrong with your engine, and the coolant system works as it should, it will not be working harder. And with much lower engine RPMs and the cat cooling down, how is the coolant system working harder anyways?

    It's having to work harder because when the car is stationary and the engine is running, obviously the radiator is hardly getting any airflow hence why on hot days you hear the electric fans kicking on and off every 30 seconds or so(not all cars are the same however). This doesn't make for very efficient cooling.

    Am I saying that you are going to cause your engine to overheat and blow if you were to leave it running for a while? Not at all. My point was continuously letting your car idle for long periods of time isn't the greatest idea. Not to mention unless you are demoing or doing something that requires the alternator, you are just pointlessly wasting gas.

  6. 100$ budget hahaha. For a friend, not me. :)

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted · Edited by canderton01

    If you guys took the time to build a nice ported box.. they could be halfway decent. This is probably one of the best super cheap amps you'll find. I mean shit man, its hard to even find and xplod amp under $100. You're also going to need to factor in the amp install kit, and the materials to build the box or buy a prefab. I really don't see this coming together for much under $200.

    You really just can't put together an entire system for that cheap.. unless your friend just wants to buy one of those $30 preloaded roadmaster enclosures from walmart. But most stock systems probably put out more bass than those things. shrug.gif

    EDIT: didn't see that this price was just for subs and amp

  9. Slot or aero?

    in Subwoofers / Enclosures

    Posted

    why do you want to tune so low?

    ^ this?

    32hz will still dig down low and still pick up mid 40s to 50s also

    ^^

    32hz is what my box is tuned to for my Fi Q15 and I would not tune it ANY lower personally. You will start to lose a lot of output on the higher bass notes.

  14. State of Emergency

    in Off Topic - Random, Misc posts - the forum "Junk Drawer"

    Posted

    I live in Nashville, TN and a little over a year ago we had a serious flood. Here is some footage caught by security cameras in a Pep Boys about 10 mins from my house. Crazy shit..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGXww36_R9c

    Holy shit that's crazy. I'm glad it wasn't nearly that bad here

    Yeah I was actually one of the lucky ones. My house is up on a hill kinda and our neighborhood is surrounded by retention ponds so my house was fine. But houses like a half mile from me got completely wiped out. I actually helped one of my buddies whose basement had 18'' of standing water because the sump pump failed.

  18. Big 3

    in Electrical-battery- Alternators- Wiring

    Posted

    you ground the battery to the chassis, the engine block to the chassis, *not in same location...* and you fuse the wire going from the power side of teh alt, to the power of the battery...

    and you leave the stock wires

    I thought it was negative battery to chassis and negative battery to engine block ?

    alt - pos

    chassis - neg

    engine block - neg

  20. SMD Distortion Detector Testing and Review!

    in SMD Distortion Detector (DD-1) Topics

    Posted

    nothing to do with the DD1 but if you are using the CD to set it and playing music with an Iphone or Itouch there will be distortion. I saw the guy with the crescendo and btls was playing with an Iphone. if you didnt do it, you should of set the gains with the Iphone playing tones. something about the Iphones, the just put out more signal, my car when Itouch > Zune > CD it terms of what was louder on the same deck volume

    maybe ill put this to the test when mine comes in.

    yeah I think pretty much all ipods do that cuz my ipod at max volume hooked up to the head unit aux, makes the head unit distort at 30 out of 35, if I put a CD in it distorts at 34 out of 35, I know i still need to get it tested with the DD-1 though.

    If you are using the 3.5mm headphone jack then no wonder its distorting. That is one of the worst ways you can transfer audio because the amp inside the iPod/iPhone will cause distortion way too early. The best way to get audio from an idevice is via USB through the 30 pin connector because it is a line-level output. If you have good quality music, it could actually be better fidelity than CD's (iTunes - 320kb/s CD's - 160kb/s)

  21. Dad's Father's Day Gift

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted · Edited by canderton01

    do you think I could set my kenwood deck to control via ipod instead of the deck also? i hate not being able to charge my ipod and control it at the same time,

    You should be able to. Just look around in the settings menus. I'm not sure about kenwoods, but on my Pioneer it's something like "USB Control Mode" and you can toggle it between "via iPod" and "via deck".

  23. Sealed Or Ported?

    in Subwoofers / Enclosures

    Posted

    If you've always wanted to try sealed, then go sealed. That way you will eliminate the "what if" factor.

    imo and basing my opinion off the few sealed systems that I've heard, they can sound hella clean without an overbearing booming if you listen to other stuff besides rap/dubstep.

    I myself prefer lower tuned ported boxes(30-35hz), because they can belt out the lows, still get plenty loud, and like sealed can sound good with various types of music.. that's just me.

  24. Dad's Father's Day Gift

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted

    That's the exact model that I run.

    It's an awesome unit with a lot of nice features and it has high-voltage pre outs should your dad ever want to upgrade down the road.

    There is one major quirk about this unit that I tell just about anyone who brings it up. If you or your dad or whoever wants to use an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or any iOS device, it will often give you an annoying error code that can only be fixed by cycling through the sources. Something about iOS and Pioneer's firmware don't mix, so it will often trigger an error code within the unit. It will still work even with the error code, but the screen will just read " Error - 16" instead of the music information. This happens to me just about every other time I get in my car. It is really a non issue for me though because I have it set on the headunit to control via iPod instead of on the deck itself.

    If you don't think your dad will ever use an iOS device on it, then disregard everything I just said. Also note I said iOS devices, it will work just fine with regular iPods like the classic.

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