Car audio

[PP Mguire]

Anybody know alot about car audio from here in the US? (dont know if its different in the UK)

[FarFarAway]

don't think it's much different mate

I know a fair bit about it (UK), used to play with some loud bits and pieces a while back (6000w+ ftw)

[NickS]

FragTek used to have a pretty mean system in his old pimp mobile, talk to him .

[PP Mguire]

Alright well i just need to know, what do you guys prefer to use for power to a 1000watt amp from the altinator? 12g wire and a crossover or what?

[FarFarAway]

I used to use a secondary battery off of the cars alternator (replaced with an uprated version tho), and power it off 12v line from that

With power wires the beefier the better and I found that always getting one that was over-rated was far better, or you get ummm...fires

[PP Mguire]

Ok well he dosent have any room in his Blazer to put another battery. If we had enough money to buy cable i could possibly put another battery in the back, hook it up to the altinator as well (he has a better one than stock) and then just use a short cable to hook the amp up to the battery. Yet again, we dont have enough money to buy that much 12g cable. Any other ideas? I guess its a given to run with 12g cable, but wheres a good place to hook it up and do i need a crossover.

[FarFarAway]

What's the rating that the cable you've got i rated at? We tended to use high quality highly rated cable at least 200w over the top of spec of the amp

Can you not get some cable rated to cover ~1200w?

[PP Mguire]

Probably. This Monster Cable 12g is really thick. Bout as big as my thumb almost. When we get to frys ill take note of the ratings and buy 1200.

[markkleb]

first what amp is it? and are you talking about the power wires for the amp or speaker(crossover is for speakers)

Second 12ga is fine for the speaker but should NO WAY run any amp over 50Watts.

What size fuse does the amp have?

I have a REAL 880Watt amp and use 00 cable, a 2Ga may work but I like to be sure the current will get to the amp.

Also I would run the power wire to the BATT (also a fuse there too)

The alt really needs to be a 120AMPs or more and needs to have its power wire (wire fron the alt to the batt) made using a larger Ga wire. I used to use a seperate extra alternator to run my systems but now I just drop the Wattage to a more reasonable range.

I built a 250Watt system that was crazy loud. You just need to use efficient speakers.

[FarFarAway]

Aye my memory is a little hazy on details about what the actual wires were called/how they were rated but mine usually had a beefy old fuse and ran straight off of the +'ive of the battery/extra customised rear battery.

When we set up sound off or test cars we tended to use a couple of kits like these:

http://www.caraudiocentre.co.uk/prod...?product=21594

Running off one/two car audio batteries that were fed off of a customised and uprated alternator

The fuse should be within 1metre (at least) of the actual battery too, and always find a safe earth

Get some EMI shielded RCA cables too and O² free wire as that really makes a difference

EDIT@

Something like this should do you ok:

http://www.caraudiocentre.co.uk/prod...?product=21588