dangerick18

are you sure that won't create ground loops?

I built my box (2 12" Type-R's) with Alpine specs and all the music I play sounds beautiful. It can hit highs and is equally as good on the lows (28-34) believe it or not. A lot of people say to increase the port size but I don't hear any port noise at all. At least I thought I did until I added sound deadening lol. I say follow what the manufacturer's say - after all they're the people that made the damn subwoofers and did the testing. Build the box with Alpine specs first and if you're unhappy, try making a different box. If anything, go get a sheet of MDF for $25 and make two separate boxes fitting just 1 subwoofer with 2 different specs and test it yourself. And if you don't want to go through the hassle of all that, you can always lengthen the ports by extending them with a little bit of wood and glue.

Very true! Impedence rise is a big problem with passive xovers. More wire would just ad to the effect. And it would most Likely screw with the xovers zobel circuits with more wire. Thx for this I'm going to check on my passive crossovers since I extended the wiring for easy access without thinking about it!

GODDAMN!!!

Hahaha

What's a good way to seal the holes? Is cardboard + deadener effective enough or is there a better thing than cardboard?

yeah man that's the ultimate "fuck you", for real

Hi! I have some concerns /w my car because a few times my car has been worked on, one time at a shady Wal-Mart when I needed an emergency battery change and other times my car keys have been left lying around at parties overnight when I was a little younger and a whole lot dumber. I also think they could have programmed the car to separate key fobs since I gave them the key fob AND the key (when I should have just given them the key). Around New Years I discovered my door partially open (in front of my house), with the weatherstripping pulled away so it didn't close completely, and then a piece of gum on the center console, an empty baggy of weed, and an empty 5th paper bag with a nice big puddle of piss on the passenger side. I also discovered the fuse for the horn was taken out. Luckily, I had all of my gear out of my car since I was re-doing everything. A week later I discovered a hubcap tool wedged between the hood pressing on the AC belt, keeping it conveniently able to be unlocked easier, and beginning to shred the belt ($15 replacement so oh well). Yesterday someone cracked the passenger side mirror in half, right in the middle of the ominous "objects in the passenger window are closer than they appear." And if it was an accident it could have only been people walking by since that side wasn't facing the street. I left in the headunit, and after reconnecting my amps I also noticed that ALL of the settings on the headunit were messed with. All of them. The worst part, is a spit stain complete with bubbles on the mirror, as if it were some crackhead with drymouth. Knowing that someone went into my car, disconnected the battery terminal, pulled the fuse for the horn and whatever else they did... I'm seriously debating shaving the handles, installing metal to block slimjims, removing the trunk lock and welding in steel, adding piezo alarms, as much as I can do until I get a Viper. I've been so paranoid that every time I leave my car anywhere I take out all of my equipment Is it possible to re-program the key fob that I have so that it's an entirely different code to enter? Also is it hard to change the door locks and ignition lock in the event they have a copy of the key and then disable my alarm? I'm assuming I'm going to have to have the horn permanently fused because it's obvious that one little fuse makes it entirely too easy to turn off an alarm.

Find the service manual for your laptop on Toshiba's website... You have to remove the CMOS battery (it's a watch battery), take out the normal battery, and keep it unplugged for around an hour or more (depends on the computer). In the meanwhile you can open up any panels with a small screwdriver and hope that it's easy to find. Otherwise you'll have to do it yourself by taking it all apart to reach the battery, and if you're not good with things like that you might wanna take it to a computer shop and they'll probably charge you 30-60 bucks. Just make sure to ground yourself so there's no static buildup. ALSO: You can try removing the hard drive (under one of the panels) and powering it on and seeing if the computer lets you get to the BIOS setup (usually F2, F10, F1, DEL.. it's probably F2 for Toshiba). Once you're in the set up, reset the settings to default, and save and exit. Then turn the computer off and plug the hard drive back in.

Hi! I have 2 12" Alpine Type-R's that I've had for oh, a year and a half. Recently I've been rebuilding my system and making it tamper proof and what have you... And there was one subwoofer that started smoking like mad a couple months ago, and of course I assumed it was fried. I took out the subwoofer and used only one in the box (dual-chambered) and eventually I cut the box in half and used the rest for a homemade boombox /w some left over Alpine speakers I have. Anyways I measured the resistance and low and behold it was blown... Recently I found out that one of the plugs on my multimeter was loose, and now it actually reads properly. But what I discovered in the process is that the banana plugs were HELLA loose and that might explain why it was starting to clip - the banana clip connecting the ground on the two coils was super loose on one side. So I used a little flathead screwdriver to bend the pins back out and now they stay in place. I'm gonna be testing the subs today and seeing if they work any better or cleaner. If you have banana plugs on your subs - please please double check them. How common is it for banana plugs to come loose? And is there a way around it? Like soldering or some sort of other method to combine the coils without worrying about two little pieces of wire?