knogoodidleft

Well i took out my handy pocket knife and scraped the grudge off of it, the ground was plenty fine beforehand. But after the first time the amp turned on but produced no sound, I figured that just scraping it clean wasn't good enough. slept in this morning and had to do some errands before work so didnt get around to it today, but i'm going to meter all the wires tomorrow after i try the bass boost saz.

ill just do it for a second...or two just to see if it works. If it does im going scratch a bald spot in my head from confusion. Ill run the meter over the truck tomorrow.

I just cant understand why the amp only moves the subs with the bass boost all the way up. tomorrow i will hook up the saz3000d and crank that boost, and cross my fingers for the health of my bls.

there is 3 pairs of RCA outputs in the back, I have always used the top, worked on the past 2 systems in the truck, and worked fine with the free air on the saz3000d. he put them to the bottom. and I guess i flicked the master/slave switch, so he had it on master. and he ran the RCAs to the lowest pair of outputs. I rewired up the acoustik and it was moving the subs a little, then I remembered when I got home I noticed the bass boost was cranked really high, and that I put it back to 0. So I started turning up the bass boost, and volia - it works. bass boost is damn near 100% up, but it works. Never used the bass boost on any previous amps... so I was out about testing songs and what not, after about an hour it just stopped. now the protection light is on and nothing I do seems to remove it from protection mode. amp and subs never got warm.

alright, the guy at the shop said i had the headunit wired wrong. he put my rcas in the lower slots, then switched the amp to slave mode and plugged the rcas on that side. everything was fine, got home, unhooked the amp, mounted the saz to the box, wired it, nothing.... so i wired back up the acoustik, the subs get a little volume, but not like earlier. i dunno.

I have the alpine-x100 deck, I do have a meter, just haven't ran it on the RCA's, I will tomorrow. I do have the big 3 under the hood, in 1/0. it does get pretty warm pretty quick, not over heating, but getting a lot hotter a lot quicker than it should. I'm pretty sure its not the amp itself, and now I'm pretty sure the saz3000d isnt broken. same symptom on both amps. I'm running 2 18'' full loaded BLs 1ohm dvc

pretty much my truck is telling me no to this system. I installed my box, wired my subs, wired the amp, fired it up... nothing amp comes on, zero output to subs. I do hear a whine through the door speakers if I rev the engine. -installed new RCA's -I have a 1/0 copper wire running to the frame as my ground. and after no sound I grinded the frame down to bare shiny metal. -checked all the fuses. -checked all the wires. -Rechecked all fuses and wires. -moved and jiggled the whole length of RCA -took the remote wire out and jumped a wire from the power to the rem When I turn the volume up on the HU as soon as a hard not comes through, the amp hits the subs once then goes into protection mode until turned off. About 6 weeks ago the amp and subs were running fine, i fired them up free air. But for whatever reason I figured the amp has cease to live. Bought a $320 bandaid (power acoustik 5500) and wired it up in the parking lot with giddy, fired it up...nothing So I took it around to the shop and asked them, wtf is wrong. since today is sunday they only had 1 guy working on cars so i had a long line, never got to see him. but the guy let me bring a little 6x9 out to make sure it wasnt my subs. hooked up the speaker and nothing. So I went home and did some research and found it might be my headunit, so i just went out and got a LOC, wired it up, turned it on...NOTHING troubleshooted the LOC, still nada. i have a alpine ida-x100, 6 weeks ago everything was working fine, today - nothing. there is no Sub setting on this headunit so everything should be fine. tomorrow morning i'm going to the shop to let them run a rca from a other headunit to my amp, then see whats up. the amp does get warm to the touch after a min or so. anybody know what else I can do? I want to lean towards head unit issues.

thanks for the quick reply, those connectors on the 3000d confused the heck outta me. happy holidays.

Hey, I've got 2 1ohm dvc subs and just wanted to make sure I wire them up correctly. seeing as this is my first "real" system I don't want to hurt it so soon. the saz3000d connectors are in parallel inside the amp. so if I were to run my system like so, would this show the amp 1 ohm? Thanks in advance.

we all like stuffing big things in tight spaces here, but Jons route might be worth looking into: or 2 Fi BTLs(15 or 18) and strap a 3000d to each. are you planning on building the box where the rear seats where and port it to the trunk? plans for sound deadning?

Aight, Ive got 2 18" daily Fi BLs dual 1 ohm, with cooling and flatwind option. Then I got a sundown saz-3000d, iraggi alternator, and more 1/0 welding wire than you could shake a stick at. Now I have very limited box building experince, and I know someone that knows someone, that has some experince. But I think he is limited in proper port designing, maybe. He has a shop called 352 Kustomz, small shop, two guys, do some crazy custom stuff. Very skilled in body work. So they start grinding away on my project, Its going to be more of a show box than a performce one. But he keeps on asking me the "port size" recommendation from Fi. I told him 5-10 cubic feet @ 30-37Hz , and I want 32Hz. He keeps on insisting that the site should give me deminsions for the port . he went to audio school. I did not say anything like, doesent the port size have to do with deminsions of box? thus different box = different port deminsions, thus no "1 port size fits all" thing. I do not have the deminsions of the box on hand, I can call them tomorrow and get the plans. Though the plans have changed 3x, mainly for the good. Orginaly the box was going to be ~16cubes after displacement, but with a fiberglass lid, anything short of measuring foam peanuts in cubes and dumping them in until full, is going to be a guess. was with them most of the day while they worked, should of took some more pics, and sorry for the cellphone pics, I spent money on my audio before camera . Just did the lid today, will finish next weekend I'm off. The box is going to roll towards the front of the truck (05' silverado crewcab) pretty much going to be 1'' behind my seats all the way back with them leaned to where I drive. With the port firing right to the middle of the front of the cab, between the seats where my arm rest folds down. coming together as far as we got and from this side and from that side friggin' sick looking inside angle of sub <---little blurry, but you can see how it looks like from the middle going up to the sub. Just a shell still, Going to put a ton of fiberglass on it, and a layer inside. Then gonna paint it the same color as my truck (forest green), throw a few coats of clear. And yes, When I wax my truck I'll throw a coat on my box as well. When bottom box is constructed people out side will just see the lid above the rear windows, the wood box below is going to be carpet. The faceplate/port is going to be fiberglass and colored as well. Advice time : Should I just get dimensions and ball park cubes, then plug them into ROE or some other calculator and give him those port dimensions, or ??? I don't know. I'm not stressing over maxing the performance out of the subs/box, I know it will have enough knock to make me smile, And look good to boot. I just don't want ports too small and have 2 18''s tuned super high, I listen to all music, mostly rock/rap then country/classic rock almost equally as much. Thanks in advance.

yes, rear seat is out. got plenty of room. they way the silverado rear seat is 2 peices, 1/3 and 2/3. I need to measure with 1/3 of the seat in and see if i can get the cubes, if so theres gonna be a seat next to my box.

pshh build log, okay. Ill take a pic of the shop, the lobby, and me sitting at home for like 4 hours, and a pic of the finished box

guess my first 3 posts WILL be here, any who I live in northern Florida, and travel down to Tampa every now and then kinda disappointed in Jacksonville's lack of ground pounders *sigh* once in a while ill see a 750Li cruising down the street with some bass, its either that or an old car on 26'' spinners, Only once have I ran into somebody with some good bass, was a kenwood 4runner.... i dunno.

Yep...Santa did it this year: 2 x 18 Fi Bl -Dual 1, Cooling, Flatwind, Daily, Non-universal. Sundown Saz-3000d (thanks acex3a) 180max/135idle Iraggi alternator ~40' of 1/0 welding wire still need to get some 1/0 battery terminals and clamps for 1/0 big three and a new battery under the hood. dunno if I want to tackle the box this time around, might just have a shop do it. planning on doing ~15 cubes after displacement, and tuned to 32 or 33 hz. I know nothing about sound acoustics, and the effects of internal design. so plain jane rectangle is gonna have to jive for now.