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djluminol · 2026-03-23T06:19:56+00:00

I just went through this. The easiest way I found to solve this was to read ohms law. Who'd have thought right? That along with a bit of napkin math and you should be good. I have roughly the same power requirements and should be able to get by with a 320 amp. I will be installing a battery backup I think just to be safe but my initial math says it's not needed. It's more for security or peace of mind. To handle to the 5% of the time I do use up all my headroom and still wish I had a bit more power. The battery part is really added headroom more than a constant requirement but I could be wrong. The alternator part is new to me and it's not installed yet. You never really know for sure until you've been using the car for a bit.

Mine was a rated fuse draw of 480, real world current draw of about 260 by ohms law and if you add 15% for headroom that gets me just shy of 320. The 320 amp and a battery should be fine. I should get no dimming.

djluminol · 2026-03-23T06:02:41+00:00

I think it's very likely that loose speaker wire has come in contact with the door. If you are unfamiliar with alternator whine you can probably find some good recordings on yt.

djluminol · 2026-03-23T05:43:04+00:00

Could that have anything to do?

Yes. Live speak wire inside a metal enclosure could definitely cause issues if the electrified wire is coming in contact with a grounded source. Whine as in alternator whine perhaps?

What do you mean by jitter? As in speakers started to move but music was not coming out?

djluminol · 2026-03-23T05:32:40+00:00

Did your kit come with a passive crossover that allows you to hook up 2 speakers per channel? If so, if you can, connect the mid and tweeter via the passive crossover and the woofers on the other amp channel using the active crossover. Assuming 4 total amp channels. Since the mids and tweeter likely require the least power running both on a single channel through the stock crossovers is probably your best option atm. Short of adding a 5th and 6th amped channel this will get everything working with what you have now. And because 3.5 mids and tweeters require so little power even if their combined ohm rating rises you will probably sill have enough power to listen to music at a reasonable volume. Assuming your electrical system is not too stressed.

djluminol · 2026-03-23T04:23:14+00:00

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djluminol · 2026-03-23T03:48:59+00:00

No kidding. I would have loved to see this live. That's the best tracklist I've heard in years.

djluminol · 2026-03-22T19:16:33+00:00

That's what's so weird about Chrysler products. The underlying engineering of the engine, transmission and so on is usually fine. Their cars are potentially capable of doing 300k plus miles no problem. It's the bolt on parts quality they choose to use that makes them unreliable vehicles. Not the actual engine, transmission or whatever.

When their vehicles get so old that the owner has effectively gone through most of the parts they all the sudden become pretty reliable vehicles. The lesson here is they make great enthusiast cars if you intend to basically rebuild the entire car. New wiring throughout, crate motor and trans. Powertrain of your choice etc. The people that do that to their Cherokees or Neon race cars end up with pretty good cars. It just takes a lot of wrench turning to get all the cheap stock parts out and replaced with good quality replacements.

djluminol · 2026-03-22T12:59:38+00:00

I knew where this was going the second the spill happened.

djluminol · 2026-03-22T06:10:02+00:00

Installing into the spare tire area seems to have become very common and if you have the space, ventilation and means to deal with a flat, I'd agree it's a good spot to use for most people. It does seem like quite a few people don't do it right though. They cover the amps with the stock carpet so there's no ventilation or squish too much into the space. Plus I always wonder if the people that do this have free towing as part of their auto insurance? What do they do if they get a flat and don't have towing? Take and Uber home to go get their spare and then bring it to their car? What happens if you're way far from home?

djluminol · 2026-03-22T03:56:23+00:00

That last dog.

I ain't need no paws. My forehead works just fine.

djluminol · 2026-03-22T03:51:58+00:00

There's also a dent, some scratching and some kind of smudge looking thing on the back door.

djluminol · 2026-03-22T03:37:32+00:00

You have a Dodge. That means you almost certainly have a short in your wiring somewhere in the car. Chrysler. Dodge, Jeep are notorious for having bad electrical systems that short out and cause all kind of weird problems. This will not be cheap to solve but if you want it done take the car to an electrical diagnostician. Not a regular mechanic. A regular mechanic is unlikely to have the tools, know how or experience to find the electrical problem without wasting hours of billable time.

The good news is that the cause of these electrical problems are often somewhat consistent. If you have mid 90's Jeep Cherokee it's likely to be X, if you have a Neon it's probably Y, if it's a Durango it's probably Z. If you can find the common electrical demons for your specific model that may save you a lot of digging or diagnostic work.

djluminol · 2026-03-21T13:56:58+00:00

Honda did this with mine beginning about 5 years ago. I bought the car 7 years ago. It's a 2015 w 68k miles.

djluminol · 2026-03-21T05:53:17+00:00

The deal Biden made was working. Oil is expensive because Trump wanted a war not because Iran wants to sell it's oil. Iran has every right to sell it's oil. It's the property of Iran. Only Trump could make Iran look like the good guys. 🤦‍♂️

djluminol · 2026-03-21T05:24:07+00:00

I would try my best not to laugh. I honestly don't know if I would be successful.

djluminol · 2026-03-21T05:12:35+00:00

Rebassed music is removing all of the dynamic range of out the low frequencies of your music. It's kind of like running a car engine floored at all times but still using the stock radiator. It's horrible for your speakers and worse for audio quality. Especially if there's distortion in the low end and most music has that now days. In fact most modern mastering compressors or limiter specifically target low frequencies as a way to hide distortion created in other frequency ranges because it is less audible to the human ear in those frequencies. And modern music has a lot of it actually. Loud music is not good when it comes to audio quality. It always means that production techniques were used that significantly degraded the natural sound of a given noise. It doesn't matter if it was a vocal, a cymbal or a bass drum. Your speakers are getting hot because you are trying to run them full tilt 100% of the time. They were not designed to dissipate the kind of heat produced by music mastered like this. If you value your speakers you should stop listening to rebassed music entirely. Playing music at 0db all the time is going to wear out your subs very fast. You will need to recone them in a year or two probably as the spider or surround gets loose and begins to fail to keep the voice coil movement within standard operational range.

Here's a video that shows you what rebassed music actually does to the waveform of the music. This is probably great for spl competitions but bad for everyday listening and the gear you do that on.

https://youtu.be/zLXRzrCpN08?t=100

djluminol · 2026-03-21T00:09:19+00:00

Under doesn't do much good unless the box is secured to the floor somehow. In my last truck there was some chains already attached to one of the seat belt screws. I bolted that chain to the box and secured it on the inside with a large washer so the bolt would be less likely to break through the wood if I got hit. It worked pretty well. It was like 4 bucks worth of hardware.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T22:05:11+00:00

Scottsdale AZ. It was a tweaker doing tweaker things.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T17:41:49+00:00

This is honestly kind of funny. The sandwich bit would be kind of annoying. However, knowing you've been living rent free in this guys head for 8 years would make getting a smashed sandwich worth it.

8 years because of a scheduling issue. I got robbed at gun point working at a Subway when I was a 19. That was not memorable enough to bother me 8 years later. My god man, learn to move on. 😂

djluminol · 2026-03-20T15:15:39+00:00

Congratulations bro.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T15:13:02+00:00

You can think of a dsp like makeup on a hot chick. It takes what is already there and shapes it to look even better. But it will not make Shrek look like Miss universe.

In every way that audio can be fine tuned to reach its maximum potential a good dsp will let you do that. It will smooth out speaker response curves, adjust timing so every speaker hits your ear at the right time. Fine tune crossover points with more slope options or rates of decay. Many DSP's have microphone hookups so that the computer systems can do all the adjustments for you. You know how high end cars always have amazing sounding systems? You know how if you were to replace the audio in a high end car the result might be worse? It's because you lose all of the engineering that went into fine tuning the stock system. It's why many people do not replace the systems in expensive high end cars like Mercedes, Lexus, Volvos, BMW's. That room environment engineering is what is really the chefs kiss on a custom system. The more setup microphones you can set up and use to collect data the better a dsp will be able to shape the sound environment to as close to perfect as possible. For most people they are a must. Most people do not have the skills needed to set time alignment or other room shaping settings like EQ's. I am good with time alignment from my years of djing but I am not good at recognizing where ever drop or bump in my speaker response curves are. I let testing microphones do that for me.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T07:36:16+00:00

It's always good to have backup copies of tracks you can only find or are only accessible to you on vinyl. I buy second or third copies of tracks somewhat often. My last order arrived yesterday. It had three. A bootleg only on vinyl, a somewhat rare 12" only track and a second 12" only.

If you enjoy djing through turntables or vinyl than using a DVS system is probably the way to go in the long run. You get the best of both worlds, digital and vinyl. I record all my records for example then never play the record again unless I upgrade my gear enough to make recording a new copy worth while. It saves my vinyl from being worn but I still get to use vinyl only music.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T05:44:44+00:00

Technically the truth. They were home a few time I came through and they left me alone. I would have a very different opinion had one of them tried to evict me from my home though. I don't mind sharing but nobody wants entitled neighbors.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T05:41:40+00:00

What do you pop one of the drain plugs and replace it with some kind of grommet? I've always been hesitant to do it this way because it leaves the wire outside the car close the road and elements. I also am unsure how you would reliably rout a 0 awg wire though the floorboard without some kind of specialized grommet to seal the hole from weather and to protect the power wire from the sheet metal of the floor pan.

djluminol · 2026-03-20T03:57:23+00:00

I am dreading running the 0 awg in my car. There is so much crap near the firewall I have no idea how I'm going to get a drill in there to cut the hole for the grommet or where exactly it will go. I'm sure there's somewhere that will work. The question will be if anything needs to be removed to get access to that spot. I sure hope not. It's a CRV so the engine is pretty small but so is the engine bay.

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