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Some dmms you have to touch the leads together and whatever it reads subtract from the total I believe. Try touching the lead together an see if you get a 1 ohm reading. I may completely wrong here, someone correct me if I am.

Deka Intimidator 9A31 Battery Good choice for a rear batt. Others cost ALOT more and do the same thing.

I am running 1500 watts + 320 watt to the doors off stock 80 amp alt, redtop under the hood, 55ah in trunk, big three grounds in 0 awg db link, big three alt to redtop in 2/0, and 1 run of 2/0 from front to back. My voltage rests at idle ~14.1-14.2 and dips into the mid 11's full tilt. Hope this gives you some idea of what your lookin at. I'd say upgrade your front batt to Optima or equivalent and 2 100ah in the back (I will be upgrading my 55ah to 100ah soon) and you should be ok. The only thing a HO alt really does is take some of the load off your batts and charge them a little faster.

Stinger Volt Meter FTW! Put the positve wire for the volt meter in with the 0 gauge power wire in the amp's terminal, that way you know what voltage your amp is actually seeing. Don't forget to dial it in with a DMM.

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Pure and utter INSANITY!

FUCKIN AWSOME bruh! Sick build! Airbag Flex FTMFW! Lulz.

Great lookin build! Nice craftmanship on your part. Sucks about the 3-Sixty, I had two amps in a row blow on me the first time I turned the vol up past 20 on one build, lol. Took like a month and 1/2 to finish the install ftl. So State Farm just bought all this stuff, or you bought it with the check they gave you? Just curious as you keep refering to themas State Farm packages.

90% of the time that is not the case. Normally the one and only thing that changes is cone area, motor, coil, softparts, they are all the same so power handling is not effected. Right. Most models of subs use everything the same for each size of sub except for basket size and cone size. In this case the power handling among different sizes would be exactly the same. However, the slightly larger moving mass from the increased cone size can slightly shift several parameters. Is it enough to be heard, maybe. Sometimes a 15" in this scenario has an fs 3-5 hz below the 12", which may be discernible. Having boxes at the same tuning might actually make the difference more audible due to the difference in frequency response. If you want to compare the different sized subs in similar boxes, you actually need to equalize the Qtc and the f3 point of the boxes. That may mean you have to tune the 12" to 29 or 32 hz, or whatever. Some models of subs actually use different motors, or at least coils, in their different subs. I know I've seen lines where the 10" and 12" use a 2" coil, whereas the 15" uses a 2.5" coil. I think MTX used to do that. Alpine might also have. In that case, nearly all bets are off depending on how closely the manufacturer wanted to make the specs. The 15" could be such a different animal that it could actually belong in its own model line and not grouped with the 10 and 12 inch versions. Or they could make it so that the 15" has very close specs to the other sizes by machining the motor a little differently. My V1 MOFOs are like this. The 15" I had last year had a 4" voice coil and a 340oz motor, where the 12" I have now has a 3" voice coil and a 270oz motor. As for the different size subs, what I have found out is it's all about properly taking advantage of the room you have to work with. You can get better output and sound by using 1 12 in an optimal ported enclosure, if that's what you have room for, than just cramming a 15 in not enough airspace. As for the myth that bigger subs get lower, I'll leave you with this:

Ascendent Audio Chaos, rated for 800 rms but I gave mine 1500 daily with no problems. Just don't use the bass boost as stated and be easy on the gains. In a 2.8^3 box tuned @ 30Hz it hit 143.7 sealed up legal on the dash on a 40Hz tone off my AP15001D and it was still very musical as well, Bass race 139.9 class on music with ease. Tank of a sub.

Wow, when I scrolled down and seen that beauty it literally took my breath away. That is definately the best looking enclosure I have ever seen. Top notch. BTW, with that white paint in the box, I say black light ftw. Would react off the white paint and look great thru the plexi at night.

Maybe I am misunderstanding the question, but you should never run your amp "full tilt". The gain on your amp is to match up your amp's output with the output voltage on your head unit. Do this with a dmm, o-scope, or atleast by ear using audible distortion as a stopping point , then backing down a little. If your asking can the fully loaded BTL take 3K daily, then the answer depends on you. Do you know how to look for signs of stress in your system? Smell coils getting hot, hear the sub bottoming out or unloading. Alot of subs can take more than rated rms if the power is CLEAN. Keep it clean and pay attention and you should have no trouble. BTW, nice choice on the gear. GLWB!

Bracing would be a better idea than deadner imo. If you can, put some a dowel rods in there for support. But honestly I don't really see it being that big of a deal.

Thanks for the info Jacob! This works right into my plans as I have only ~2.5^3 after displacements and am really interested in using 4 of these bad boys in my next setup. Now all I have to do is wait on the funds, lol. Come on income tax !

Wow, great to see a company coming straight out of home sweet home . Lived in Tampa my whole life and I wouldn't have it any other way. Wish you the best of luck in your new venture. Maybe oneday some of your products will find their way into my ride .

Lookin great man! I just took a serious look at the SA line for the first time like 2 days ago. I am really diggin those beastly 8's. Just might have to order me 4 to run off my AP15001D.

You guys are my heros, lol. Adjustable wall socket power ftmfw!

It's over dude. Someone won already.

Sweet, never heard of the amps or 12's. Have to check them out. Nice work.

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Looks great bro. Check out my rats nest, lol . <---------------------------------

I use a remote gain att. I have 3 kids and when they're in the car I like to just have a little tiny thump for a full sound, then when it's Daddy time I run between 1/2 and 3/4, and on demos I can run it up full tilt. Very covenient little thing to have as long as it is a true gain att and not a bass boost knob.

Looks great bro! Nice box build. Love single sub setups. Just much more impressive to me to see someone gettin loud with 1 sub. Bout 6 months I will be rebuilding, goal is 145 out of the trunk with a single 12. I think it is realistic. We shall see.

PURE SEX! I LOVE KERFED PORTS! Solid ass box. Beautiful craftmanship right there.

Just got the back story on Thilo and TC Sounds, not really something I want to get involved with. Lil to shady sounding to me. I think the Xcon is gonna be the best choice for what I want. Was just keeping an open mind to other possibilities.