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I wonder if this one is any good....
http://www.amazon.com/Seeedstudio-DSO-Nano-oscilloscope-V2/dp/B004DE31U0
It's cheap enough, you get what you pay for probably applies here I am afraid lol
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Looks amazing I'm definitely gonna have to pick some of that up! If I were able to test it out for myself that would be awesome...
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Next time Best Buy has the Alpine Type R's BOGO I'm going to pick up a pair of the D4 ones for my 99 Corolla.
I know that there is better out there but I'm trying not to spend to much since I'm getting a new vehicle in a year or so.
Right now my Corolla has all stock electrical and I have some Dual 12" subs in a "band pass box with a Dual 470w amp wired with some 6ga wire.
My plan is to get an Optima Yellow Top and do the Big III before getting anything so i have a decent electrical system.
Then once that is done in going to get the Hifonics Brutua BRZ-1200D from Audio Savings with a 4ga wiring kit. That way I'll be able to upgrade my wiring and amp since on 4ohms it does 600w which is the max rms for the subs/box I have right now.
Then I'll just need to get the Type R's and build a box for them and I'll be set.
I solely listen to Dubstep and Hip-hop no rock or anything like that so I want to tune low.
Would it be worth the trouble of sealing the box to my cabin or just have them facing backwards toward the trunk?
Also what he would you recommend I tube my box to and sq. of port area?
Might want to check out the rockford punch stage 3's. I'm a little biased cause I am a fan of rockford and not anything at best buy but if you go to a car audio shop they have buy one get one on them all the time. At least the ones around here do.
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Looking for a good set, maybe in the 100-200 rms range. I need 4 total but I really need to replace my back ones at least for now, blew them yesterday (they were factory) I like rockford components, but let me know what you got!
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We have a show here in columbus this Sunday. Should be plenty of loud cars.
Yeah I'm gonna be there! Hope I can meet a few good people so that I can learn as much as possible, I wanna know everything!
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I live in Dayton (east side/belmont area). Whereabouts do you live? I'm currently waiting on delivery of a Monte SS thats getting a couple grand in stereo equipment installed by me for a friend. I'll have the car for awhile so once I get it playing, I'll take it for a drive n let you check it out. My Caprice's system is currently removed as I'm rebuilding and upgrading..well..all of it.
I'm in Springfield, so like 30 mins away from you probably
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eric alexander, curt eigensee, greg higgins, cj henson, me... all over 155+....
you have tons of world record holders in columbus LOL
john hone is in the dayton area i think... you really should look him up
Thanks, I will definitely look them up
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Bump
noone in columbus/dayton area is loud?
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Hi guys I am new to this whole car audio scene and I would like to get into competition in the near future. I am looking for people in my area that would like to give me demos of their systems and possibly give me a few pointers or anything that they could help me out with. I know there is a lot of knowledge around here and I would like to be a part of all of it
So if you are in the Dayton/Columbus area let me know, I would love to hear some of these crazy builds I see on youtube lol
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Pick up the SMd dd-1 unit and learn how to set your entire system. You are clipping the signal badly if you are heating up the coil that fast
x2 its clipped somewhere. make sure when you adjust everything you have everything at 0 or flat. you dont want no negative eq or anything on the head unit and you dont want anything turned up on the amp.
you say you have the subwoofer setting on 15? im guessing thats max? turn it down to 0 and readjust your gains..your clipping like a mofo on that
I have tried setting the gains with it on 0, and it still does the same thing, I am not new to car audio I have been doing this for years but I have never ran into a problem like this, all my eq settings are flat, no bass boost or anything turned on, crossover set at 75 hz, subsonic is on, etc... I'm really at a loss. I am running 4 ga. power/ground wire, 2 100 amp fuses (one by battery one by amp) Ground is fine I would say because it never cuts out or goes into protect. Its grounded to the chassis about 10 inches from the amp. I'm thinking it is probably the electrical in my car, its a 07 honda civic. when I turn it up all my lights are dimming even the illumination on the HU.
Any chance you checked your voltages...grab a DMM and check the battery voltage with the car off, hopefully you see 12.# then crank the car up and make sure it reads between 13.5-14.4.
I don't have a DMM lying around though
do you know anywhere that would have one I could use? maybe like auto zone or something?Discount Auto Parts SHOULD have one, call them and ask.
The absolute WORST thing you can do is charge a dead battery with your alternator. It can hurt your battery and your alternator. If your battery has been resting at 9v or something then it is severely hurting your amp and subs and rest of your car, which explains why your lights dim..
Ok thank you again for your help. I have been installing small systems for a long time but I know very little about batteries and voltages and all that. If its not the battery could it be the wiring on my stock electrical? As in big 3 upgrade, would that help with voltage drop?
Big 3 helps current flow. With more current flow allowed, it can be better regulated. Thats pretty much as simple as I can say it for the Big 3. Imagine if you will, trying to stick a golf ball through a garden hose, the golf ball representing the excess current not built for stock electrical. then try rolling a marble through a garden hose, it would just naturally slide through, marble representing what stock electrical is meant to handle. When putting the extra load on it, those wires usually 4ga or 8ga are just too small to handle the extra load.
Not to be rude, but you say you've been installing system for quite some time but dont know much about batteries and voltage.. hm well...your amp wants between 12-18v. most common being 14. if you run the system with the car off and not being charged, or if the system is sucking a lot more power than the car car charge at, its going to drain the battery power if the battery gets too low, it causes the system to mess up..
Anybody else care to chime in. My fingers are tired
Well if you have to say "not to be rude" your being rude lol. I said I have installed small systems that have not required much power, so I never had to worry about battery voltage and whatnot, hence is the reason I came here asking for help. I have never did a big 3 upgrade or anything like that so I am new to that whole sort of thing.
Don't worry man. I am a chill guy.
Check your voltages though for sure.
For sure, thanks again for your help. I want to eventually set this car up so I can hit in the 40's but I know I have a looooong way to go and a lot to learn so I appreciate people that will give me advice, do you think its possible to hit in the 40's with one 15 and 1000 watts? or more like mid-high 30's? It's a trunk car so I know its hard to get up that high.
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Pick up the SMd dd-1 unit and learn how to set your entire system. You are clipping the signal badly if you are heating up the coil that fast
x2 its clipped somewhere. make sure when you adjust everything you have everything at 0 or flat. you dont want no negative eq or anything on the head unit and you dont want anything turned up on the amp.
you say you have the subwoofer setting on 15? im guessing thats max? turn it down to 0 and readjust your gains..your clipping like a mofo on that
I have tried setting the gains with it on 0, and it still does the same thing, I am not new to car audio I have been doing this for years but I have never ran into a problem like this, all my eq settings are flat, no bass boost or anything turned on, crossover set at 75 hz, subsonic is on, etc... I'm really at a loss. I am running 4 ga. power/ground wire, 2 100 amp fuses (one by battery one by amp) Ground is fine I would say because it never cuts out or goes into protect. Its grounded to the chassis about 10 inches from the amp. I'm thinking it is probably the electrical in my car, its a 07 honda civic. when I turn it up all my lights are dimming even the illumination on the HU.
Any chance you checked your voltages...grab a DMM and check the battery voltage with the car off, hopefully you see 12.# then crank the car up and make sure it reads between 13.5-14.4.
I don't have a DMM lying around though
do you know anywhere that would have one I could use? maybe like auto zone or something?Discount Auto Parts SHOULD have one, call them and ask.
The absolute WORST thing you can do is charge a dead battery with your alternator. It can hurt your battery and your alternator. If your battery has been resting at 9v or something then it is severely hurting your amp and subs and rest of your car, which explains why your lights dim..
Ok thank you again for your help. I have been installing small systems for a long time but I know very little about batteries and voltages and all that. If its not the battery could it be the wiring on my stock electrical? As in big 3 upgrade, would that help with voltage drop?
Big 3 helps current flow. With more current flow allowed, it can be better regulated. Thats pretty much as simple as I can say it for the Big 3. Imagine if you will, trying to stick a golf ball through a garden hose, the golf ball representing the excess current not built for stock electrical. then try rolling a marble through a garden hose, it would just naturally slide through, marble representing what stock electrical is meant to handle. When putting the extra load on it, those wires usually 4ga or 8ga are just too small to handle the extra load.
Not to be rude, but you say you've been installing system for quite some time but dont know much about batteries and voltage.. hm well...your amp wants between 12-18v. most common being 14. if you run the system with the car off and not being charged, or if the system is sucking a lot more power than the car car charge at, its going to drain the battery power if the battery gets too low, it causes the system to mess up..
Anybody else care to chime in. My fingers are tired
Well if you have to say "not to be rude" your being rude lol. I said I have installed small systems that have not required much power, so I never had to worry about battery voltage and whatnot, hence is the reason I came here asking for help. I have never did a big 3 upgrade or anything like that so I am new to that whole sort of thing.
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Pick up the SMd dd-1 unit and learn how to set your entire system. You are clipping the signal badly if you are heating up the coil that fast
x2 its clipped somewhere. make sure when you adjust everything you have everything at 0 or flat. you dont want no negative eq or anything on the head unit and you dont want anything turned up on the amp.
you say you have the subwoofer setting on 15? im guessing thats max? turn it down to 0 and readjust your gains..your clipping like a mofo on that
I have tried setting the gains with it on 0, and it still does the same thing, I am not new to car audio I have been doing this for years but I have never ran into a problem like this, all my eq settings are flat, no bass boost or anything turned on, crossover set at 75 hz, subsonic is on, etc... I'm really at a loss. I am running 4 ga. power/ground wire, 2 100 amp fuses (one by battery one by amp) Ground is fine I would say because it never cuts out or goes into protect. Its grounded to the chassis about 10 inches from the amp. I'm thinking it is probably the electrical in my car, its a 07 honda civic. when I turn it up all my lights are dimming even the illumination on the HU.
Any chance you checked your voltages...grab a DMM and check the battery voltage with the car off, hopefully you see 12.# then crank the car up and make sure it reads between 13.5-14.4.
I don't have a DMM lying around though
do you know anywhere that would have one I could use? maybe like auto zone or something?Discount Auto Parts SHOULD have one, call them and ask.
The absolute WORST thing you can do is charge a dead battery with your alternator. It can hurt your battery and your alternator. If your battery has been resting at 9v or something then it is severely hurting your amp and subs and rest of your car, which explains why your lights dim..
Ok thank you again for your help. I have been installing small systems for a long time but I know very little about batteries and voltages and all that. If its not the battery could it be the wiring on my stock electrical? As in big 3 upgrade, would that help with voltage drop?
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Pick up the SMd dd-1 unit and learn how to set your entire system. You are clipping the signal badly if you are heating up the coil that fast
x2 its clipped somewhere. make sure when you adjust everything you have everything at 0 or flat. you dont want no negative eq or anything on the head unit and you dont want anything turned up on the amp.
you say you have the subwoofer setting on 15? im guessing thats max? turn it down to 0 and readjust your gains..your clipping like a mofo on that
I have tried setting the gains with it on 0, and it still does the same thing, I am not new to car audio I have been doing this for years but I have never ran into a problem like this, all my eq settings are flat, no bass boost or anything turned on, crossover set at 75 hz, subsonic is on, etc... I'm really at a loss. I am running 4 ga. power/ground wire, 2 100 amp fuses (one by battery one by amp) Ground is fine I would say because it never cuts out or goes into protect. Its grounded to the chassis about 10 inches from the amp. I'm thinking it is probably the electrical in my car, its a 07 honda civic. when I turn it up all my lights are dimming even the illumination on the HU.
Any chance you checked your voltages...grab a DMM and check the battery voltage with the car off, hopefully you see 12.# then crank the car up and make sure it reads between 13.5-14.4.
I don't have a DMM lying around though
do you know anywhere that would have one I could use? maybe like auto zone or something? -
Pick up the SMd dd-1 unit and learn how to set your entire system. You are clipping the signal badly if you are heating up the coil that fast
I am definitely going to when I get the money, it seems like a very well made product. It doesn't heat up instantly just after a song or two, but it is definitely way hotter than it should be.
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Pick up the SMd dd-1 unit and learn how to set your entire system. You are clipping the signal badly if you are heating up the coil that fast
x2 its clipped somewhere. make sure when you adjust everything you have everything at 0 or flat. you dont want no negative eq or anything on the head unit and you dont want anything turned up on the amp.
you say you have the subwoofer setting on 15? im guessing thats max? turn it down to 0 and readjust your gains..your clipping like a mofo on that
I have tried setting the gains with it on 0, and it still does the same thing, I am not new to car audio I have been doing this for years but I have never ran into a problem like this, all my eq settings are flat, no bass boost or anything turned on, crossover set at 75 hz, subsonic is on, etc... I'm really at a loss. I am running 4 ga. power/ground wire, 2 100 amp fuses (one by battery one by amp) Ground is fine I would say because it never cuts out or goes into protect. Its grounded to the chassis about 10 inches from the amp. I'm thinking it is probably the electrical in my car, its a 07 honda civic. when I turn it up all my lights are dimming even the illumination on the HU.
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Well if you cranked your head unit to full tilt, even if your gain was 1/32 the way turned up, your still gonna clip.
You must FIRST find out where your head unit clips, and not turn it past that. THEN you can proceed to tune your gains.
Yeah sorry I forgot to mention that I knew that info already
my HU clips at 28 and I set my gains at 26, so that isn't the problem. Thank you for trying to help though! -
Hi guys I have a problem and I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight.
I have a kove armageddon 15 which is rated at 1050 watts rms hooked up to a rockford bd1000.1 (birthsheet says 1127 @ 2 ohms)
It seems like no matter where my gain is set the coils heat up like crazy, sometimes so hot you can barely touch the dustcap. I don't have any equipment for setting gains but I have tried setting the gain by ear with no boost, with subwoofer setting on HU on full tilt, with subwoofer on 0 and bass knob full tilt, and with both full tilt. It seemed to be the loudest with no bassknob and subwoofer set at 15, however, no matter what setting I use the coils get hot as hell. Could it be a problem with the amp or head unit or possibly wiring? (the sub is wired right I mean wiring in the car) I have yet to upgrade my big 3 so I was wondering if maybe it was sending a clipped signal because my cars electrical isn't giving it enough power.
I would just like to know where to start in trying to identify and correct this problem, any insight would be very much appreciated.
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Hey I'm about 4 hours away from you, 200 if I pick it up?
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This still available? I really need to do my big 3...
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I am running a momphis mojo (rated for 1750 watts rms) on about 1k rms right now for about a month, and I haven't had a problem. Just make sure you set your gains correctly and check from time to time after you have been playing them at high volume to make sure the cone isn't too hot, if it is then your gains are probably not set correctly, or your electrical can't keep up and is causing clipping...