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* This is the box, otherwise known as our "ghetto test box" - we use it in the shop just to drop woofers in and power test them. Not made for SPL *at all*

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* Our crazy wire mess trying to get four 1500Ds in here playing as quickly as possible

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* I bet you guys want to know what those little amps are, don't you ? Not telling!

I'm sure glad ugly = loud in SPL.

Test results so far:

2x 1500Ds = 144.1 dB

4x 1500Ds = 147.0 dB

So... appears to be no power compression on this sub yet. We are running out of x-max as the box is tuned quite low and our peak is @ 52 Hz - the port area is also WAY too small for this beast sub.

We are going to build a decent box this weekend and I am fully expecting to break 150 dB.

This is with the "daily" 8-layer round coil... once (if?) we tear it up with too much power we are going to re-build it with the 12-layer flat SPL coil to see what gains we realize with it.

- Jacob Fuller

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Oh yah... the alternator is the stock Jeep alternator. This thing has to be like 30-amps... when I added the Powermaster batteries it can't get over 14v anymore.

We do have a stock replacement battery under the hood as well with a single run of 1/0 from front to back.

You see everything else in there in the pics... no sound dampening yet, no mods... just folded down seat to mount the amps to.

- Jacob Fuller

- Owner, Sundown Audio

- Sundown Audio on FACEBOOK

- Please DO NOT PM ME -- use my email address -- [email protected]

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Oh yah... the alternator is the stock Jeep alternator. This thing has to be like 30-amps... when I added the Powermaster batteries it can't get over 14v anymore.

We do have a stock replacement battery under the hood as well with a single run of 1/0 from front to back.

You see everything else in there in the pics... no sound dampening yet, no mods... just folded down seat to mount the amps to.

Yea jacob the older Jeeps had some really week Alternators, The newer Jeep grand cherokees arent Bad 136 amps stock I believe. But either way Looks like you guys over at Sundown are always havin Fun haha. Keep up the Great Work. :good:

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Yea jacob the older Jeeps had some really week Alternators, The newer Jeep grand cherokees arent Bad 136 amps stock I believe. But either way Looks like you guys over at Sundown are always havin Fun haha. Keep up the Great Work. :good:

We try to have a good time :) That is what car audio is about!

Trying to find a good deal on a new alternator... this one looks original too and it has 151k miles on it!

- Jacob Fuller

- Owner, Sundown Audio

- Sundown Audio on FACEBOOK

- Please DO NOT PM ME -- use my email address -- [email protected]

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tiny prototypes are nice

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What are those tiny amps? :)

Nice scores btw!

I don't think that they're tiny amps. I don't see any power and ground going into them. If I had to guess I'd say that they were crossover's.

2013 VW Jetta GLI 2.0 Turbo

1 Sundown Audio SCV2000

1 Sundown Audio X15 V2

1 XS Power D3100

Audio Control LC6i

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146.4 sealed on the dash at 37hz

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155.2db unofficial on dash at 43hz

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