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I hate how much I love this Taylor Swift song...
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I think for me the part that makes me nervous is the unknown. The fact that I don't completely understand them. How do you know how many you need, etc? Do you replace batteries with them, or if you had batteries would you run them along with those batteries? Stuff like that. If you're replacing a battery with these, say you had a D7500, how many would you need to equal that?
I won't like, I saw this on facebook yesterday too, and I thought "hm xs power came out with an energy drink". You know like NOS did. LOL
OH RIGHT, Like none of you thought the same thing!!!
The usual supercap used is the Maxwell 3000F 2.7V.
6 are required in series to be able to function in a 14V vehicle environment.
The 3000F Maxwells are rated each at about 200A of max continuous current draw.
Current in series is the same so a bank of 6 are still restricted to that ~200A (max continuous). 1900A peak.
So to be safe, you'd want at least one bank for every 200A of current your system consumes.
If you have an amp which draws 1000A, then 1000/200=5 banks would give you a very safe buffer.
More banks will naturally give you more energy capacity.
It's difficult to do an apples-apples comparison of batteries to caps as they are very different creatures.
Batteries store TONS of energy while caps can store and release current very quickly.
It also depends on what you use them for....burping or demoing.
If in doubt..........just get 32 banks (192 caps) like AMI has....
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do caps ever die like batteries or do they last longer?
Caps can be drained all the way to 0V so you can't "kill" them by draining too much charge.
They do have a rated life like anything else, but it depends on the the quality of the part and the usage it gets.
I've tested normal electrolytic caps that are 30 years old and they tested out better then some new parts I've purchased.
The two biggest enemies of caps are heat and over-voltage.
Things should get very interesting in the next few months.
A good competitor to Maxwell will be great for pricing....and to further drive the technology.
Excited to see where this goes!
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VU-din as skull eyes on an amp panel...
:mindblown:
Fantastic work Sir!
Killin' it......
Haha thanks man! Glad you like it! Gotta keep it fresh lol!
Wish I had a sweet 9.0k to mess around with...so much room for activities!
HA, indeed there is.
Stay tuned, I got something in the 'werks'...
No skulls with VU meters but I think you'll like it...
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That would be sick! ! But rgb led's are a bit bigger than these so the whole board would be bigger
but could do something with the diy vu the have lots of possibilities there
Changing the LED colors on the VU-din would be easy with different LEDs, but RGBs would be difficult to implement.
Dig the idea though.
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VU-din as skull eyes on an amp panel...
:mindblown:
Fantastic work Sir!
Killin' it......
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Nice giveaway Sonic!
I'm in!!!
No more contest winning for you!
LOL...
I'm on a hot streak so I'm taking advantage as much as I can...
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Nice giveaway Sonic!
I'm in!!!
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Noice trunk score!
WooHoo
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I posted this before but its good for another run...
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Congrats Meade!
Well done on a great forum. Place feels like home.
Member Since 20 Oct 2011
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Anything fun planned for a 10yr anniversary coming up soon?
I know you've done System of the Year before.
System of the Decade?
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Lets check the specs:
- •Input Sensitivity.......................................................................................... Adjustable
- •Voltage required on speaker input for full scale @ maximum sensitivity ....10 VAC RMS
- •Voltage required on speaker input for full scale @ minimum sensitivity......150 VAC RMS
- •Maximum Input............................................................................................200 VAC RMS
Looks to be more tailored towards an amplified output.
You can try it, but it looks to prefer 10Vac for a normal full swing.
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Awesome MOD!
Can't wait to see it in action.
Yeah I've noticed that some LED controllers are NOISY as well.
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I'm sure I was doing something wrong, HandBrake looked like it had a LOT more customization.
WinX was just a lot easier to jump into. Couple button presses and it was rolling.
Surprised iTunes doesn't rip DVD's..............well, no I'm not surprised actually....
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I tried HandBrake and it didn't work for me.
Wouldn't take the source files for whatever reason.
I then tried WinX DVD Ripper Platinum and it worked great and was easy to use.
Wasn't free, but then I'll pay a little for a decent program that works.
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Awesome fabrication!
Love how you go the extra mile to add the details so it looks stock.
Was it difficult relocating all the wires for the HVAC?
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Nice reminder video Steve!
Never ceases to amaze me how people will quickly blame a product and then talk shit about it when it's really user error along with the fact that they didn't take the 5mins to read and follow a very simple manual.
I see stuff like this all day long....
People cut corners and have horrible electrical systems and when something blows, it's always the test equipment's fault.......SMH.
Shows great customer service that you take all these in with no hesitation.
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Nice!
White exterior, black and orange/tan with silver trim.......LOVE that combo!
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The OM-1 is adjustable so you can set it wherever you want to show clipping (or whatever you want really).
You know your system, so I'd say forget the book and just adjust it where your system starts to clip (or whatever clipping level you're comfortable with) and go from there.
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You can think of things in terms of "load impedances" to help visualize what's going on.
As you said, your subs are ~1 to 4 ohms so we can consider that low impedance.
I don't know the number offhan, but I believe the DD-1 has an input impedance of 10kOhms which you can consider the "load impedance".
Therefore the DD-1 draws very little current to do its measurements which is why you can connect it to large amplifiers.
Oscilloscope probes are mostly 1Mohms.
So you can see oscopes draw VERY little power for their measurements.
But since they are sensitive tools, the probes can only handle a limited amount of volts so you have to be careful.
When you have nothing connected to your amp, it's actually connected to the air.
Air has a resistance of probly 100Mohms or more.
You can see it puts a HUGE impedance on the amp so practically nothing comes out.
As was said above, another good way to state it is that power is "drawn", not "pushed".
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Watched the whole thing live on the news.
The guy was finally stopped not too far from my place actually.
Also found out that a girl I know was right next to the lady in the Toyota that got jacked so she could have been next...
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FWIW,
I can slam on mine for quite a while and they play fine.
As soon as I turn up the Sub Level and notice a bit of clipping on my O-scope, shortly afterwards I'll start smelling coil.
If you can smell them, its most likely clipping.
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My go to is JW black label.
I had a dinner with some rich friends (i swear me and you have talked about this fucking couple before). They would buy silly shit, i guess to impress me and Laura. We mostly just giggled at them. Anyway, he got a bottle of ...... Im sure im wrong, Macullans ? Mucllans ? something like that. 20 Year old. I think. I know he liked it. I thought it was complex. But, it was smooth. And it was a couple hundo ..... like 300-400$.
That stuff, is beyond me.
Thats probably zero help. Sorry man.
And, you, with long hair, ...lol, thats comedy.
That would be Macallans.
I've had the 18yr, REALLY good.
So the 25yr, I could only imagine would be phenomenal.
EDIT: Ohh yeah, speaking of JW Black. I just got a bottle of JW Double Black which I really like....smooth.
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LED color in meters
in D'Amore Engineering - High Quality Car Audio Installation Tools & Accessories
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Absolutely.
Fairly easy mod.
Scooter99 wanted the white LED in his 360.3 changed to orange so he sent it to me and I did a simple swap.