Louder in colder weather ???

[Fish Chris]

Hey Berto, nahhh.... I pretty much assumed you would still have to have a solid alternator(s) and proper wiring.

Still, I think I might look at those VCM setups...

Fish

fish your thinking of the xs power vcm. and i have always figured when its colder the air is dense and so it moves more with less push. plus everything can cool off faster. due to the surrounding air being cold

I believe you're right with the VCM. But I also believe he's misunderstanding the concept of the VCM.

The VCM ensures that your Alt will charge at the set voltage, not "hold your voltage rock solid." You can have a VCM but a garbage electrical and you'll still have bad voltage drops.

[Berto]

Yeah solid charging setup ensures a voltage that has minor drop.

The purpose of the VCM is to move your voltage around. Stock charges like mid 13v, with the VCM you can raise that.

Hey Berto, nahhh.... I pretty much assumed you would still have to have a solid alternator(s) and proper wiring.

Still, I think I might look at those VCM setups...

Fish

fish your thinking of the xs power vcm. and i have always figured when its colder the air is dense and so it moves more with less push. plus everything can cool off faster. due to the surrounding air being cold

I believe you're right with the VCM. But I also believe he's misunderstanding the concept of the VCM.

The VCM ensures that your Alt will charge at the set voltage, not "hold your voltage rock solid." You can have a VCM but a garbage electrical and you'll still have bad voltage drops.

[kickass audio]

I noticed the same thing you have Fish with my Envoy and my other systems ive had installed. When its the middle of the summer my system will play loud but not as loud as it does during the winter. When its like 80-90 in the summer up here, my alt likes to charge at 14.4-14.6v when its hot but in the winter when its like 30-40 outside, i get about 14.9-15.6v output when its hot. The only thing though is i dont think the cold or warm does crap with how your air in the cabin compresses and heres why....

When its warm outside my amps, alts, and sub are already up to the interior temperature of my truck so when i start slamming on them they dont take too long to heat up and once the amps and sub heats up, my power output seems to go down a lot by ear. Now if its cold outside my amps and sub are ice cold so i can slam on them and it will sound a hell of a lot louder to the ear but again if i keep it bumping long enough to get the amps and sub warm it will start to lower the volume to the ear. Now i know for a fact my voltage is affecting the output of my amps because when its colder on the alt, i get way more power output but when its hot, i get less power output from my alternator.

So either way the temperature doesnt have anything to do with you getting louder, its the fact that your equipment is cold so it doesnt have to waste its energy to try and keep up with the power its demanding. Think of it like this.. If you were to run around your block on a very hot day outside, you would drag your butt around the block. Now if it was a reasonably cool day outside you would run around the block without any problem. This is basically what your vehicle is doing. Since the electronics are cold it can slam longer before it starts to heat-up and lose output power as opposed to the equipment being warm and heating up in a short amount of time.