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Personal experience or because of the spider that came loose? Just curious. I'm listening to some mid bass speakers today so I'm not in any big rush anyway.

Truly Awesome skills J, especially knowing there's no do overs. That's Ball of steel in my book.

I epoxied the one spider back down, then epoxied the top (suggested reinforcement) and will reinstall them all tomorrow. I hope that was the last if the "issues" I'll have with this setup.

Thank you! I like it as well, but it's now a rolling stereo, err vibrator. I've toying with the idea of a blow thru in order to reclaim some space.

Thank you Sir.

Thanks for the compliment. I did get the amp running well, I wired the subs wrong. One of the spiders glue joint-to-frame broke loose yesterday after about 2 songs. I'm going to do the epoxy thing to strengthen all of them. I still have to order some grills for the fans. I was thinking of these>

I'll make this short. A long time ago in my brothers mustang, I bought him a Kicker xs50 and 4 - 8" comp vr's (dual 2 ohm) , I did the same thing, but the spring terminals are 90* apart on the vr's. I believe there was consumption of alcohol involved that at that time. :drink40: I watched the video on strengthening the spider landing a few minutes ago. If the spider has already broken loose, should I epoxy the bottom of the spider first then fill in the top roll? I believe that's what I'll end up doing, unless I'm told otherwise.

Well, it's confirmed. I'm an idiot, somebody drive over here and give me a "Gibs" (ncis) slap on the back of my head. I pulled the woofers out and wired both coils properly this time. The amp didn't go into protection, but I listened to 2 tracks from Billy Joel and one sa8 started rattling. I pulled it out and found the spider had broken loose. :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: I'll look back at the thread Jacob stated to fill the outside land with epoxy due to this issue. I might as well do all 4 now rather than later. I checked all 8 coils when I had them out, 4 coils measured 1.7 dcr and 4 measured 1.8 dcr. Thanks for the replies everybody!!

I checked the DC RESISTANCE of 4 - sa8's this morning ( 4- D2 ohm, each subs coils in series with a 2" jumper wire, all 4 subs in parallel of the other coil) , my meter reads .6-.7 with 1 wire from the amp removed from the box terminals. I believe they are wired correctly. I may pull each one out and measure each coil individually tomorrow. I looked back at the presale thread and Jacob lists the DCR of a D2 sa8 in series at 3.28 (1.6 each). My meter could be off a little, they should read .8 total by the info in the presale thread. Your thoughts ? SON-OF-A.........I just read what I wrote. I am only wired to half of the coils!!!!!!! :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: I really hate to admit when I screw up, but I'll own up to my mistakes! Somebody check me, to make sure. The coil on the left has a jumper, the coil on the right connected to the amp. Wouldn't that be a .5 ohm load? If it is why does my meter read .6-.7 DCR?

double post, sorry.

So I've got 2 for ohm load so far. The battery will happen soon regardless.

I've been looking to see which battery I can fit under my hood, I think the d6500 is doable. I'd hate to spend $300.00 and find out I still have the same problem.

I don't believe I have the wiring wrong, but I'll check again tomorrow. I'm sure i need a better battery than the one I have. I played a 50 hertz tone, adjusted the gain to ~45 volts. I then set the sub/infrasonic to 32 volts playing a 30 hertz tone, then played a 68 hertz tone and set the voltage to 32 volts again. At this point the subs barely moved with the bass mechanic cd playing "music". Knowing that this is (more or less a guideline, and music is dynamic) I put in a steely dan cd that I'm familiar with ang adjusted the gain (up) from there. The thing that gets me is that it's not low voltage that seems to be the problem. A test tone will make the voltage gauge drop allot, but the amp keeps playing. I don't want to hurt the amp with low voltage supply, so now I'm bassless. Maybe it's the static ohm load, I'll check tomorrow, but I don't know. I ran a small jumper from + to - on one coil of each speaker and connected the other coil to wires to 2 bolts mounted through the box, then to the amp. Kind hard to screw up, but I'll double check and post the final dc resistance to the amp. Thanks to all who have responded.

I have sort out the amp/electrical problem first.

Than you very much ! :drink40:

I got an early start today. I made some panels to replace the rear seats, the cover panel from the frame to the floor, fans installed in the cover panel, amp mounted, subs and box installed and the truck put back together. I'm having issues with the 2000d, I'll post a thread in the sundown forum. The left/right rear seat panels. The cover panel. The cover panel with fans. The cover panel in place. I'm ordering some fan grills, just not sure which one's yet. The box with speaker cutouts. The box installed. The sa8's sound pretty damn good, but I'm having issues with the amp. I assume it's not enough battery, but we'll see what I can find out.