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SnowDrifter

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  1. My beef(s) with CCA: It's less conductive. Duh. Yeah you can buy 0 gauge CCA but you can buy smaller gauge OFC and it'll be easier to work with. Doing multiple runs? Well you need more lugs/fuses/grommets/etc that essentially negates all of your cost savings It doesn't solder. At all. You need to crimp it. And invest in a crimping tool. And the pricier crimp lugs. Again, not really a good argument w/ cost savings when everything around the wire becomes more expensive It's brittle and makes a mess everywhere It corrodes. Whoever decided to mix 2 metals that are well known and documented to cause galvanic corrosion to each other... Well... I have some words for them
  2. Do those fancy brita sink filter things help with hard water?

  3. Gain is basically a ratio set between input and output voltage. If your input voltage is low, you'll need a high gain to compensate. No side effects from it other than potentially extra static or similar artifacts if your cables are unshielded and acting like an antenna FWIW when I had a 7v line driver, my gain wouldn't get more than maybe 25 degrees off min setting to get to the appropriate settings. tl;dr don't sweat it you're good!
  4. Normal If you're using exclusively RCA outputs, yield to those numbers Else you can do some mix/matching. Use -5db for your HU speaker outputs provided the RCA outputs are clean at the same level w/ -0db, then tune your sub amp at that same volume level with whichever gain overlap is appropriate for your goals
  5. You're a braver man than I. I'd be cuddled up in the shop waiting for the 5-0. I'm always a bit paranoid with these folks. Never know their mindset or what they have on 'em. I am rather curious how he got a key though?
  6. Pro tip: Don't know a song? Upload to youtube! It'll copyright it for you

    1. Jessica

      Jessica

      another tip, use AKINATOR and describe your idea of a porn star and it will give you the best match based on its guesses

    2. SnowDrifter

      SnowDrifter

      How would you describe yourself?

    3. Jessica
  7. Happy Bday Kyle! Drink one for me. Just uhh... Don't get hung over, K?

    1. Kyblack76

      Kyblack76

      Daawww. Thanks man. Worked it lol. 

  8. I have to say, I'm quite grateful for everything I've learned on here. Going over ohms law for 3 weeks and it's just been a breeze

  9. Hey @sundownz @xspoweryour partner link images on the right side pane are being fussy. 

  10. So where's SRP?

    1. WalledSonic
    2. WalledSonic

      WalledSonic

      Pun not intended @Quiet

      His avatar kinda gives him away lmao

  11. 1. The beat of music is a regularly repeating pulse. Whereas the pulse is an accentuated piece of the music such as a kick drum, note change, etc. By extension, this means that there requires more power to produce those pulses. Now as to why the headlights dim: I'm going to rely on the assumption that they are standard halogen lights. A. Without going excessively far into wavelength emittance along the visible spectrum, or changes in resistivity over heat; A halogen light is a heating element - a resistor. The power this draws from the electrical system can be calculated by v^2/r, where v is the voltage at the headlight, and r is the resistance of the headlight. B. Everything has resistance. Wiring, battery, will all have voltage drop through them as a result of current demand and resistance. Then you have the differential between charge voltage of the alternator and the resting voltage at the battery when it will begin converting chemical energy to electrical. Add to that there's a response time in the alternator between when the voltage changes from its set point, then the regulator changes the power going to the rotor. So what this all means, is if you have a sharp change in power requirements, you get a change in voltage of the system of your vehicle. Each beat, or pulse in the music, will cause this. You can also see the effect if you roll your window up/down then toggle the switch while the window is at the limit of its travel 2. Bearing in mind the info from 1. There are 2 ways you can eliminate this dimming issue 1. Use a headlight that has its own power supply that will provide a stable output independent of the input. An LED or HID would work in this scenario 2. Rig up a capacitor and a diode at the headlight such that the effect of these temporary voltage dips are mitigated such that any dimming that occurs isn't visible to the eye any more
  12. That long? Gotta be crunchy LOL Ewwww
  13. Damn that's way more substantial that I thought. When I read CO2 laser table, I was thinking one of the assemble it yourself kits not an industrial class piece of hardware. What are you going to be cutting with it? Vinyl stickers? Acrylic? Some top secret thing?
  14. If you have black gloves what?

  15. You might have to tweak your low and high frequency @ impedance measurements as the calculator wants you to use at 3.662 ohms vs the 8.7 ohms you were using
  16. That's wild Wonder what the noise reduction is. I know there are a lot of variables, but is there an estimated dB@frequency reduction that's expected to be offered?
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