Jason Brittain

Okay so I found out my voltage gauge is not reading correctly went to adjust it and even just touching it with a screwdriver drop my voltage on the gauge 2v. So I bought a new stinger gauge. So all the way to work today I was bumping pretty hard volume was all the way up to 40 on my Pioneer 4100. now I checked it and that's what I set my gains on so @40hz is what I use to set it with my scole, said I still had another .75-1.0v till clipping on both amps. So i should be perfect. Each 15in 2250 rms zcon is getting 2591watts. But today in my 10min commute i smelled somethin nasty. Got to work and put my hands on the dust caps and they were pretty hot. Kinda got me scared there for a little bit cuz I don't want to blow myself already even though I do have fresh Recones at home and ready to go in case I do but why would it be doing this? I'm going to double check with my oscope and clamp meter tomorrow. It shouldn't be too much power for the subs what could it be that the box that I have versus the power that I'm pushing does doing it or could it be something else?

Ok so the first day I had these amps hooked up together I blew two fuses coming off the alternator. I happened to only have 2, 200amp fuses cuz that's all they had in the store when I got them. So I picked up a couple 300 put them in went fine for a day and a half and then I let some kids in the back seat and forgot to tell them about my RCA plugs so they broke one. By taking it and it was totally my fault cuz I didn't have it blocked off. But since then I've decided to change and run one amp per sub. today I went to a competition and after the competition I put it on term lab out of curiosity. At the beginning of the day I clamped it at 2591 watts for each amp at 14.1v. My drivers window is stuck down 1-1/2in but on the meter and I posted 143.8 @48hz at 13.5v. It was 90 outside and the truck been running awhile. Everybodys scores were down compared to earlier. Wasn't sure what to expect since I've never done it before. But I know there's things like sealing off the bed from the cab I could have got a higher score my window being cracked open a little bit makes a difference my boxer is not design for SPL. Box specs are 7cu @ 33hz. I did it out of curiosity because personally I do not give a crap about what the meter says I do it for me and me alone and what it sounds like.

Ok so i also picked up a tpi clampeter. I got my amps installed, batteries inatalled. For my initial gain settings how use YouTube 40 Hertz tone but it didn't say anything about being 0 dB or -5 db. Gotta go TuneIn and the clamp on it and I came out with 123.1v and 38.2a which comes out to 4702 watts. These cresendo amps straps are rated at 7000 @ 2ohms. Is this normal because of box rise? I know a lot of people hate that saying. I have no idea what mine is because I haven't put it on a meter yet

Okay that's kind of what I thought is underneath the truck that's what I was thinking of doing. Yeah I seen the pictures of the battery bank being grounded but I didn't see the MP so I just assumed they were to the battery. Well that always sucks to hear you got to lose the truck been there though thinking about selling the stuff I would join in the one of the Facebook pages I'm on called avalanche style maybe you'll have luck selling to somebody on there

How did you run your power wire to your batteries? Through the truck or under it? Im thinking of putting my batteries in the back like you did for now til i can do my interior the way i wanna do it. And did you ground your amps to the batteries?

Yeah they are the xl's. I wasnt sure if iiked them at 1st because theyre so completely diff than the focals. But not much bass or no type set up i think the focals would be better, but with my 15's i do think i like these hertz better.

So I picked up a few things in the last couple months I did change over from the focals tooth hertz comps. They are brighter and they are louder so in essence they go great with my subs. I just received the 2, crescendo 3500'ss yesterday and the recones for my zcons. While I do not need to change them now I bought them so I wouldn't have to wait a month in case I do blow them. The tpi o-scope I picked up a few weeks ago when I changed my front stage I set my amp with it then I went and checked my crescendo 2k and found out that I was only pushing 19 amps to my subs. So obviously that's messed up wish I knew something was wrong but I wasn't sure what not my problem was a while back I had electrical problems that puts an amp into protect mode a quite a few times but it always turned back on its always had power it's always play music last week I had to replace my to kinetic battery under the hood I replace those with 2 xs power s3400. This past weekend I also installed 2 out of my 3 d 3100 which I don't have pics of yet. before I start at this whole thing over a year ago I checked into ofc vs CCA wire the only difference I could find was CCA corrodes faster and can't run as much current through I just recently found out that CCA wiring runs twice as hot as Ofc. Which I found out the hard way when I change batteries the amp wire going from the battery to the amp was extremely corroded an extremely stiff so needless to say I'm going to be changing out my way really soon.

I thought you'd like my results, I just sorted that spreadsheet by fusing current to make it a little easier to read. I have a column with $/watts and the crecendo amps and the SQ did awesome. Here is a snippet https://goo.gl/photos/fp5UgXrB7iQCeSya8 Remember, some of these values you may see and ask yourself why the F is he even listing that, but I was having a very hard time deciding between amps and I wanted to list as much as I could. I just ordered 2 of these on friday!! :-D

With all these programs 4 box tuning and design can you tell what impedance of that enclosure is going to be?

Okay so maybe this is a stupid question just because the amount of power should be fairly close to one another. But I have 2, 15in zcon d2. And im going to buy a new amp,next week. I was thinking of cresendo 5500 and running it at .5 ohms like i am now. But somebody local to me is selling 2 svc 3000. If i strap them ill be doing 6k at 2 ohms. Or my origin plan of crezenxo amp which is rated for 5850 @1ohm. Since im running that at .5ohms not,sure how much ill actually be getting theres no spec on .5 ohm. So my question is which way would be better or does it not matter since theyll be pretty,close? Is this just going to be what brand i choose to run or is there more problems with runnin amps straped? Ive never straped amps before so im curious. My electrical is a 370 mechman elite. 2, 1800 kinetics. And or changing to 3, d3100 xs power batts.