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    New to ms8......question or 2

    if its popping you may have a bad ground, small possibility of a bad component in the amp, could try a ground loop isolator from radio shack just to check, and or check where your grounding. if you are concerned about protecting the speakers put an inline fuse on one side of the speaker wire,
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    New to ms8......question or 2

    if you want to protect it from overpowering it you can put in a fuse inline, I guess u could use the cap if u wanted to, usually if a crossover is going to fail the crossover blows and nothing will get to the tweeter
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    New to ms8......question or 2

    putting a cap on the tweet is the same thing as a passive crossover just a cheaper setup. If you have your tweets run independantly on there own amp then just use the MS8. As far as raising your stage I have 2010 f-150 i added a second set of tweets high in the pillar and crossed them at 8k for...
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    Largest or biggest CCA battery Made

    Throw 2 of these in there?? Rolls Flooded Deep Cycle Battery, 6V, 530Ah S-530
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    Electricity is very important to car audo. Why is it not discussed more often?

    Is an interesting post im curious what difference the flow is in the case of car audio, its an argument that really has nothing to do with our systems other than what we hook our red and black wire to, but to more confuse or enlighten you yes Electrons flow from Negative to positive, but...
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    Post your job/career

    Electronics Field Service Technician for school disctrict. pretty much anything low voltage, or plugs into a wall socket, i fix it, do alot of intercoms, fire alarms stadium and auditorium sound systems, install repair, maintenance, $22.00 an hour, pension, health benefits and lots of time off...
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    Have I messed my system up?

    Are you only running amps off your headunit?? try disconnecting the rca's at the headunit play the the tone see if the fuse pops, if it does and you prolly have an issue with that deck, speeding up and slowing down is that on a cd or when u have mp3 or a usb hooked up, could be motor spinning cd...
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    Lincoln MKZ Double DIN?

    well taking a second look the top part of the dash where the display is looks to me like is what you would be taking out, if it were me i would take that top piece apart and look how its mounted, if its attached with 4 screws in a typical ford radio fashion then chances are you can use the navi...
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    Lincoln MKZ Double DIN?

    NM i see the problem that one i think wont work the one listed there is also listed for my truck lemme check the dash kit i used
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    Lincoln MKZ Double DIN?

    you got a picture of you dash??
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    Whats the first system you ever had?

    Alpine 9813 Deck 2 sets boston pro 6.5LF Alpine V12 MRV F400 highs amp 2 JL 18w6's on 2 PPI PC-2150 amps. installed in 1990 nissan maxima
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    $100 sub

    friend of mine picked up some 12's not a bad sounding sub. Infinity Kappa 100.9W 10" Smart Impedance 1400W Car Subwoofer
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    Anybody good with small engines? (2 stroke)

    ahh sorry didnt see that
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    Anybody good with small engines? (2 stroke)

    your carburetor is probly gummed up and needs cleaned out.
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    Help setting gain.

    could do the big 3 and add a second battery and you should see a pretty big difference.
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