Dimming lights

[ppia600]

Originally posted by jol50
You can grab an older alpine 30wx2 off ebay cheap and they work pretty well if you run HP on them. Just make sure if it takes plugs or DIN they come with it (the old black ones some have plugs). Maybe $20-50 will get you one of the smaller ones shipped. They sound nice, if you want really loud it will cost you more. Even the 30w x 4 go cheap often, the 40-50w/ch are more. Pretty sure the old black ones are mostly rated at 12v, so 30w is more like 45 at todays ratings. Or of course, get some other amp if you want...if it were me I'd rather have a real 30w x2 amp than any HU running speakers. I keep a couple amps like that around just in case.

Haha, yeah. I just lost an auction on one. I was trying to get one to run my center channel. There are plenty of them so Im off to search again.

[DigitalJunkie]

I had a bit of a dimming issue on my old Clarion deck.. Even with 12awg wire straight to the battery it dimmed a bit on heavy bass notes..So I connected a 10,000(?)uf cap across the power leads,right at the deck,that seemed to help alot.

(I'm kind of picky about dimming,it annoys/distracts me. )

[jol50]

Alpine, here is one dirty old rag that will be shipped on a gold plated UPS truck to you... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ALPIN...spagenameZWDVW
I see them go for under 20 at times, never the times you need one naturally! I meant to get another so I could bridge two but forgot about that project after I found a 4ch like that.

If you are not into wiring, you might try the fuse box, most cars are wired for 60+ amps or something in the fusebox. I was running a 150wrms and a 60wrms old school amps on a 8ga out of the fuse box. Then I put a 300wrms old school amp on the sub, but never cranked that one at night. Then I put a 5ga wire in from battery and 700wrms, but a new 5ch amp rated at 14v and its not much better. This in a smaller 4cyl car. It dims a little at wot.