cobra93

I got a late start today and my camera was pissing me off. It doesn't want to work unless the batteries are new, so I didn't take allot of pics. I made an aluminum mounting bracket for my fuse blocks. Drilled some holes and mounted them. I got 4-1/0 runs down the underside of the truck, clamped well out of the way of anything hitting or catching them. Drilled 4 - 1" holes to bring them into the rear of the truck, mounted the strain reliefs and pulled the wire into the cab. The wires are 1" away from the metal in this pic, it's just the angle that makes it look like there touching. Inside of the truck. These are water tight strain reliefs. Don't mind the other wires in this pics, they will all be removed. I over guesstimated how much cable I'd need. I could run all 4 of these back to a trailer and power a stereo in it if I needed to. Better to have too much than too little and too much is just about right. I hope to get the rest of the electrical done tomorrow and start welding the frame for the 2000d/ enclosure.

I got a late start today. I didn't get all the electrical finished, oh well. My camera was pissing me off, it doesn't work unless the batteries are brand new, so I don't have allot of pics today. I made up an aluminum mounting bracket for the 2 fuse blocks. Drilled some holes and got them mounted.

Keep this in the back of your mind, it's something I've read over and over. A carpc is something that can take allot of time to get right. You could spend weeks/months to get correct, this is what turned me off of the idea of a carputer (and I don't mean setting crossovers and such). They take up allot of space, need proper cooling and don't turn on like a car stereo does. I looked into a carputer and spent allot of time reading about it. Then decided the pioneer dex-p99rs was a valid alternative and am waiting for the price to drop somewhat. Do some reading on the website I listed above before you chose this route.

I have no idea. The quote from shizzon in your last post (second line) could be the reason. He knows more than I do. OT that cat looks pissed!!

I would leave the speaker unhooked, but if the x-overs are effecting that one frequency and not the other or the bass boost is turned on (as shizzon stated) it could effecting the amps output. I'd turn them off or up/down and try again.

I'd look at your manual for the radio. Most/all radio's output 1/2 the voltage with the radio versus cd. This could be the same thing. Do you have a level control for the aux. input? Check out mp3car.com, they have allot of good information on there.

Where are your x-overs set? (infrasonic/subsonic and your low pass) Are they on? Did you have a speaker hooked to the amp when you checked the voltage?

Well, today was almost a total loss. I started by repainting the port and replacing the c.s. screws with button head screws. While I was working on this I was almost run over by two pissed off squirrels. Then my brother comes out of the house to see what I'm doing, he looks up to say something, then his eyes got real big and he took a step back starring a the top of my head. To make a long story short, I thought there was a bee flying around my head or something, so I swatted my hand over my head and hit this praying mantis to the ground. I don't know how long it was there, I never felt it, I was wearing a bandana. It's about 5" long. I thought the screws and the port looked better. Then the brown truck showed up. My fuses, fuse holders, ring terminals, cushioned stainless steel clamps, battery terminal protectors and heat shrink tubing arrived. From this point everything went down hill. I got the black micro-suede out and cut "SUNDOWN" out in 4" tall letters, It looked pretty damn good. I sprayed the super 74 down on the backside of the black, reached over to get the silver suede and the wind folded the black over onto itself. NOW I'M F___KING PISSED!!!!!! I got it laid out smooth again, grabbed the silver and used the roller on it, o.k. I should be good. Right? I flip it over to admire the last 2 hours of work only to see the super 74 bled through the black and it's ruined. :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: :suicide-santa: NOW I'M READY TO START THROWING S__T!!!!!!!!!!! So I head inside to do a search for a better adhesive. I don't find much. I head down to ace hardware to get some stainless wood screws and some stainless finishing washers to do the ends of the box. They had some Elmers spray adhesive that stated "low bleed through", so I bought a can. Well the Elmers doesn't bleed through, but I don't think it sticks either. I wrapped the box and cut the port and holes out. I check in the a.m. to see if it will hold the suede on or if I'm going to have to start over. THIS SUCK'S, a complete waste of a day!!!!!!!!!! If I redo the suede I may try the logo again, but for now this is what it looks like. On another note I picked up some strain relief's from menards to run the 1/0 into the back of the truck. I'll try to get the truck wired this weekend.