Everything posted by nadcicle
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		fuses blew in sundown sae 1200
		
		Is the amp mounted in such a way that it'd be sucessable to vibration? Vibration is #1 amp killer.
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		Sundown Schedule : Slamology / Jake Vacation (6-12 to 6-20)
		
		I'll be sure to stop by the booth and give you a shout Friday. Safe travels!
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		Team IAK IronMan Explorer
		
		Ouch, that sucks man. Too bad you couldn't have tested it before.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Preliminary numbers
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		Team IAK IronMan Explorer
		
		That makes two of us. Mine isn't as purdy as his
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Another little update. I always tend to overlook all the small details that i've done, but I do take pics of most of the finishing to the small projects leading up to the completion. So here we have Senchez and I doing our best to get these things playing by any means necessary. Bracing a little bit. Little bit of ass showing. Subs mounted. So we got a little play with all 4 tonight at 2 ohms. Doesn't seem peaky at least. So I'll be building a second shelf and mounting my second amp on another shelf along with my mids/highs amp soon. More to come.
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		Team IAK IronMan Explorer
		
		Perhaps sharing this with Scott would give him a good chuckle haha
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		Umm, what?I'm sure I know this is to pac-lc1 all bass at once, but cock block? Lol
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Right at 56.5 per sub and the things want 75. While not impossible it was improbable to run the length needed for a proper tune lol. I'll likely have some Lolo's in there if these do well in testing.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Lol, yah. If it weren't for him I would of had a catastrophic failure from one of the major components. Luckily he seen it early and I was able to remedy it. At this point I'd rather not say what it was out of respect to the maker. I'll leave it up to the close-minded to assume its my horrible CT-Sounds amps for now.Over look on my part bring stingy with the glue. Spent all day today addressing the situation. If any of the other spider packs delaminate let me know and I'll send out recones.Thanks Q, I'm making sure before I make the final mount tomorrow. I'll beat them at slam and remove them and inspect again before the next show June Jams in Lebanon TN the week after. I have plenty of CA glue and accelerant in case any others have this same issue. My eyes are tired and I would have missed it if not for Senchez. We hope to get DSS the recognition it deserves even if it's two completely different build styles.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Box is curing. Batts are in. Wires are ran. I will mount the subs tomorrow and redo the amp rack to something a bit more intuative that'd make it easier to get to both amps.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Lol, yah. If it weren't for him I would of had a catastrophic failure from one of the major components. Luckily he seen it early and I was able to remedy it. At this point I'd rather not say what it was out of respect to the maker. I'll leave it up to the close-minded to assume its my horrible CT-Sounds amps for now.
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		Team IAK IronMan Explorer
		
		As someone mentioned further up I would seperate each fuse, instead of one large fuse block, Because if one wire shorts its doubtful that all of those fuses would blow quickly enough to prevent any damage. If you used all 300 amp fuses, 1200amps could cause some pretty instant damage. I notice you keep pressing this. I'm not sure if you're aware of how MECA works, but you want straight bars to share the amperage rating of a single or just a small amount of fusing amongst every positive run to the sub amps. If you find my information incorrect explain how you'd do it differently for our usage.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		Well, I had to choose between mids/highs and finishing substage and I preferred to try and keep it at the substage for now with plans to continue with mids/highs when I get back from slam. Proper mounting hardware 3/4" and 1" Jumped the batts Amp rack covered in vinyl Just a mock up The legs for the sides He just got done crimpin a guys dick after the guy came up short on drug money. Quite possibly the smartest $50 on install equipment i've bought next to a pair of wire cutters. Makes crimping ends so much better than hammering lugs on.
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		Old School amps for sale
		
		Some quality equipment here. That ads keeps staring at me, but I have enough on my plate right now. Good luck with the sale!
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		Team IAK IronMan Explorer
		
		Mostly because of their extended bandwith response. Also, I've seen these designs to work really well in person. From people such as Scott Bowman, 162.x dbs, to Jason Myers, 160.x dbs. And they are doing this well relatively small subwoofer count. It fits my general style. Of doing the most work with the least equipment. And that is what I plan to do with this build. The reason why it may not be best for most SUVs. Is again, space. It all comes down to space. If you're not able to do at least an 3:1 ratio, I wouldn't bother with such design. This box here is almost 50cubes gross. The original flat wall design was only I think, 18cubes net? So I wanted to utilize all the space I had available. You said the main reason I'd use a 4th band design in an SUV. The absolute biggest reason I'd use one is to transfer the most sound possible from a trunk to inside a car. I don't have a trunk so no worries there though so I'm good lol.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		They will be installed Saturday I'm pretty sure of it. As far as playing that's a different story cause the crimper comes friday and I'm not sure how long I can work before I die of heat exhaustion. I dread rings more than cutting for my enclosures. The reason why is because it's actually more overall cutting and I despise mdf dust. It gets on EVERYTHING and I hate it. However, it is the cheap solution for rings and is the easiest to make curves and weird shapes out of. It also doesn't split when making precision cuts. The biggest disadvantage of mdf is swelling and flexibility IMO.
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		nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
		
		So I went to grab my sander to do some light sanding and the damn twist lock removal for the dust capture is broken. Gonna have to send it in for repair. In the mean time sanding by hand sucks. I'll get back on this soon.
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		Team IAK IronMan Explorer
		
		- nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuildLittle update. BTW, if anyone could please merge my two identical build logs i'd appreciate it. I dunno what happened cause I only submitted it once so idk. Anyways, I hate you guys that make this look easy cause rings are a bitch. Got me one of these here rabbits cause I wanna make it look all purdy like. The largest one is mighty close! So, good fit IMO. Now I'm thinking of either just slapping another ring under for extra support or somehow gettin all fancy and putting one on time and rounding it over. I think the second option won't be beneficial as much cause it'd be covered anyways with resin and all. Opinions are welcome. That's it for today. I managed to get 14 rings cut out and still 2 short. I did manage to get all 8 rabbeted at least though. I am tired of breathing mdf dust for the day.
- DSS Tridents and Twisted Sounds S-10. Road to 166dBsCovering up the vents I've gained a few tenths. Covering up the vents I've gained a few tenths.everything above window and in front of b-pillar must appear stock. "appear" Lol. *Draws picture of vents* Vooliah! Few tenths...
- Team IAK IronMan Explorer.45 just ordered me some more today
- nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuildIt's possible. Only 2 10's and the underdash horns will be used for daily. All the rest of it is for just getting silly.
- nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuildWeird, I posted once and it made 2 identical topics.
- nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuildWas previously explained that it managed more power than a Crescendo 5500 and also reflected the same gain on a meter. Only for those 2 reasons did I choose this amp as their isn't another amp for the price/power ratio that would meet/exceed it other than a brazilian. By all means if you can get be a couple ns1's for the same price I paid for these then hook me up. I am not devoted to any brand at the moment unless their performance holds true. Yes they are. I downgraded cone area and went up in power.
- nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild
