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    ground cable in a boat

    Ok i have a 1600w and 950 watt amp in my boat and am installing a battery separator so that i don't drain the primary battery. To completely isolate them i don't think i can run the ground in the conventional way to the engine block. So i have 2 ideas. Run a double zero ground to a ground...
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    ground cable in a boat

    Ok i have a 1600w and 950 watt amp in my boat and am installing a battery separator so that i don't drain the primary battery. To completely isolate them i don't think i can run the ground in the conventional way to the engine block. So i have 2 ideas. Run a double zero ground to a ground...
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    Amp Rack Help! Help me decide if i can build one and how please

    If you use 1x1 wood spindles. Mark the layout of the amp and drill pilot holes through. Run a countersunk machine bolt through it then mount the amp to the amp rack using locknuts. Then liquidnail the amp rack to the box it makes it much harder to steal. Just make sure that you have a way to...
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    Amp Rack Help! Help me decide if i can build one and how please

    Would be very hard to steal my amp without damaging the boat or special cutting tools.
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    high level vs low level on an amplifier

    The hu is fine i really like the adjustability of it. It has high mid and bass adjustments along with a seperate sub adjustment. Before i got carried away with y adapters i could use a high pass to low pass adapter and still be able to adjust f/r/l/r. But the amp has high level outputs that i...
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    Amp Rack Help! Help me decide if i can build one and how please

    I had a similar situation in my boat. Onviously you cant screw it to the hull. What i ended up doing (and you could still use a rubber dampener between the box and amp rack) is i used liquid nails not to the box but the hull of the boat. Then mounted the amp to the wood using screws. Very...
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    high level vs low level on an amplifier

    I have a 19 ft open bow With a pioneer 50x4 stereo. The stereo has only one set of preamp outputs and this is going to a 1600 watt amp powering 1 12" sub. I bought another amp to power my four 6.5 component speakers and 1" tweeters. So nothing will be running directly to the head unit. Would...
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