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Travis

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  1. I know I'm in a small box (5 cubes tuned to 35) and I'm stinking the he'll out of my level 6 on my ns1. The damage may already be done and I've tuned by ear. By multimeter. And it doesn't seem to matter. I think my voltage is causing me to clip. I need to pull my sub and see what's going on. There may be a recone in my future. Everything I've tried isn't helping so I'm assuming it's my voltage. Scratching my head and a little frustrated. Had a couple shops try to tune it ect. I don't know it all and I don't pretend to... But very frustrating honestly.


  2. 1 hour ago, Kylar96 said:

    Heard the same thing bro, right with ya. ... . Running one box per alt would be most reliable.  So, we put a box on each, and purchased a better turn on solenoid even.Used LARGE gauge wire all around. Really put some effort into it. LOL, like, a TON of late nights. Fuck me. 

     

     Still had bugs.

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    Used large gauge all around, and we still ran into several issues. It took about 4 months of fiddling around to get it to run as reliable as it does now, which, so far, this season, has been fine. But, hell yes, we have 2 spares we take to large (3x, state, and world finals) shows, just because.  I will say when shes running good, it runs good. Amps run a lot cooler, and the Xfire 4ks do make a bit of power with that voltage up there. ( I mean fuck, they better eh?) After 2 minute runs, and a starting rev of around 1800, we dip just below 16v after full tilt long average runs. After about 30-45 seconds the motor does start to bog down. So, mike helped us there, getting the turn on for the alt as LOW as he could. ,......  so, thats all neato and shit, but man, was it a constant nightmare for a while. There was a time where i wanted to sell all 20 brand new bats at cost, and swap to just a 14v cell, and charge in the upper 15's off the alts, safe for the rig elc,, then throw them on the 2 chargers we have when ever it sat. I know Rusty at DC Audio does this in his van. Uses 14v cells and charges at like 15.4. Then tosses em on the charger when ever its sitting.

     

    Has it helped our scores? Yep, yep it has.But, man, for the cash, time and pain, ugh.

     If i had to do it all over again? Id use 14v cells, and a shit ton of caps. If i could go back. 

     

    But, we fought through it, and so far, its been OK.

     

     I highly suggest the KISS method if your just driving around banging. 

    Bravo man. Killer response. And that's exactly what I'm gonna do.


  3. 8 hours ago, frogcase2002 said:

    Was going to use birch but I have like 4 sheets of mdf sittin around . .Think ill use birch on the face of the wall since it will be 4 or so layers . Going to try to keep everything extra in the car no more than 1000lbs

    Lol. If my new enclosure was mdf it would weigh twice what it does now. But that's how we built my old box. Half mdf half birch. If ya got it use it!


  4. 1 hour ago, Kylar96 said:

    Not sure exactly what your looking for, or why. But, i agree with the above, if you want to go high volt. We have a quad set up, one for the 12v side charging at 14.8, and three for the 16v side charging at 17.9 with 20 xs power d1600s. It was and has been a pain. This season is the first its ran with out issues. The blue transpos are turds, can be finicky as fuck. But, so far, its been fine this year after much playing around. I dont know what all your looking to do, but, if your holding close to 14v now wide open, you probably wont see much if any gain whatsoever with another volt.  If your holding well over battery rest already, then you have a lot of room to grow.

    Well at full tilt on the ns1 it sits 11.6 11.7 at idle. So defiantly going to add another battery in the rear and upgrade the one under the hood that's starting to swell (that'll get replaced in the next couple weeks) adding the second is more of "hey I've got another 240 just sitting here, is it worth adding for safety, or is it going to be more catastrophic on the factory electrical?" That's my reasoning. And I've heard from multiple people the blue transpo's are poo. And decided against 16 volts due to everyone's imput. Thank you to all that responded.


  5. 1 hour ago, jcarter1885 said:

    Quadruple Baffe FTW

    I wasn't even expecting that. 3 inches thick on top. He really built a beautiful enclosure. I hope it sounds as good as it looks. I'll get to play around with it tomorrow 


  6. It's in. Just learned there's a meet tomorrow by me so that'll be the test. Got less than 5 min listening time and gotta go to daddy mode for a while. Super well built and sounds pretty nasty. 


  7. 1 hour ago, ManzKea said:

    What kind of Jeep ?

    Old jeep cherokee lol

     

    53 minutes ago, Nshaffe5 said:

    How do you like the 35.1? I was looking into a 45.1 per sub, also looking into the Orion hcca 5k as they are both reasonably priced. I like the 5 k because it's over 4K rms @ 2ohms so that's good for box rise when wired at 1ohm per sub

    And for the price great amp. I planned on getting the 7.1 to power my level 6 18 but stumbled onto an ns1 v1 for a good price. Don't know what the new setup will do yet as I'm going to pick my new enclosure up. I'm chasing breaking 150 on one sub and I can't stop myself lol. The new orion's seem to be getting good praise


  8. If this is in regards to the as team 18s it's a good start. We broke them in one by one in my jeep. (Waited 3 months for his second sub). My old box was roughly 7 1/2 cubes after displacement 18 sq inches of port and it was good for a 147.9 off a synergy 35. Tuned to 32hz

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