Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Night time means picture time Sorry it's been a BIG weekend, and sadly not the type that involves drinking and passing out... Massive spam of updates coming now!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Hi All, OK first of all apologies for not posting anything overe the weekend, but hopefully when you see everything below you'll understand why we didn't have time... So the last pictures we put up were from Wednesday night when we had the big storm. We admitted defeat that night around 2am then got back to work on Thursday night putting it all together and into the car and bolted the box half together and loaded up all the goodies we would need for the weekend. Friday we worked all day at our normal jobs, then at 5:30pm we started on the Astra. Trav and I got started on finishing up all the bolts for the metal frames...I'm not sure WHY Trav has a hammer though?!? Mick and Dave got stuck into connecting two of the Ti1500.1's together. They removed an end cap from each amp and then bolted them together from underneath to form one BIG amp. This saved us some valuable space on the amp rack! Next up we started making all the jumper leads to connect up the Stinger SPV69 batteries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punkeyboozter Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Good luck lifting and fitting that bunch. When are the subs going in? Loudness is no substitute for musicianship, and partial deafness is no badge of honor. I was once able to hear this advice. Build Log>>> http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/ind...pid=672024& New Build Believe in the order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 While the main battery rack was being wired up the two hidden batteries in the wheelwell also got installed: While that was going on we were unpacking and prepping the 18 Ti212d4's 12" subwoofers, they forced me to do the stupid pose, and as you can see I hated every moment of it!!! While that was going on Fab and Brett were working on the vinyl work for the edge-lit plexiglass sign that would live at the back of the sub box: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Random Action shot!!! Another major task was mounting the subs into the box. To make things more interesting the top subs all had a pair of nutserts and M6 bolts in addition to the screws just incase!!! The first sub installed!!!! Top box done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Starting bottom box, it's been a looooooong night: Our Foreman hard at work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Next challenge was to get the rear wall installed and mounted so we could put in the battery tray: And a look at the inside of the box, with the rear wall installed and the edge-lit plexiglass sign lit up! Starting to wire it up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Sexy yellow amp rack going in... Setting in place the first amps! All amps in place...DAYUM!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthsouthproductionsNC Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 WOW!! That is quite the setup. nice build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Gold Oz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 So basically this brings us up to about 2am Sunday morning. We had worked through from Friday, got a couple hours sleep Saturday monring then kept pushing through Sunday night. Around this time most of the team had crashed out or bailed and I topped up on Coke (a Cola) and got back to work wiring. I was such a zombie that I never took any pictures I just kept working and working and working... So around 7:30am Sunday morning I got the amplifers turned on and tested each pair of subs individually. In my sleep deprived state I did the best I could. We wired up 2 subs per amp with each sub having 2 voice coils, so a total of 36 voice coils. I quickly ran back and forthe testing each amp individually to make sure that the corresponding subs were working. By this time Fab had woken up and Michael had arrived. It 'seemed' OK and so I wired up all the RCA's to all the amps and we gave it a test run. DAMN!!! HOLY CRAP!!! OH MY GOD!!! and many other things were said...but then again we were all running on very little sleep. At this point we decided that we would pack it all up and get on the road to the dB Drag event about 3hrs away. Into the car and away we went to the show. When we got to the show, that's when we noticed that we had 2 subs that had died It seems with my ultra careful wiring I got 1 voice coil out of phase which cooked the sub in the 3hr drive to the show, and once that sub let go it also took out the other sub wired to that amp. So for the show (and all the videos) we're running on 16 subs with 2 big passive radiators LOL!!! Even with this problem the Astra is still a weapon!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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