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    Wattage ????

    my alpines are dual voice coil and there 4 ohm
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    Gain Setting Tutorial

    i have an alpine f 450 and 2 12 inch subs hooked up.they are in parallel hooked up to a 200w rms line. so i would. do i take peak power or rms watts. can somebody help me.
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    Installing sub & amp on stock deck

    to the remote on the deck . oh ya i dont think the factory one has it. i would really recomend going with an aftermarket deck cause you will loose sound quality with converters and a stock deck and it will also be a hell of a lot easier and look better.
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    help wiring alpine HU

    ya i got it it was the gray wire. i called a shop and they said it should be black with a red stripe and i found that farther under the dash but it must change into a gray. funny it even said black with red on the wiring diagrams i found. anyways its working.
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    What's the best way to splice 4ga power cable?

    these are nothing what you described you don't need a crimper. on the package it says twist on wire connectors they have plastic on the outside and a threaded metal insert on the inside that bites and twists the wires together. why wouldnt these be good. do you mean for other wireing or are they...
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    help wiring alpine HU

    im having trouble wiring in my alpine 9831 head unit to my 88 corolla GTS. i have connected the yellow battery to power and black to ground. i havnt hooked up the remote or the illumination or the red ignition. i cant seem to find where to hook up the red ignition and the orange ilumination. i...
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    What's the best way to splice 4ga power cable?

    well you can get these things called t marrets or something like that and you stick all the wires in there and twist and it bites and twists them together and bites really hard. they use them for house wireing two i twisted 3 8 ga together easily.
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    Car speakers

    you could do some cutting
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    Help with port dimensions

    on winISD they dont have any alpine subwoofers? i have two alpine 12 " SWR-1241D what is similar two them their or what do i do? i figured out how to creat one but i only know about half the specs
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    help me port

    that is the one i use however the calcs at the 12 volt are a little easier to use and you get the same answers chance how many drivers you running i cant remeber. hay trixter thank s for all your help on my porting ill be building it this weekend. cause its raining like a b!tch now for the last...
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    help me port

    Vb= the reqired internal volume of the enclosure F3= the frequency that the response is down by 3 db at Fb= the frequency that the vent needs to be tuned to Vas= the equivelent stiffness of your driver Fs= the free air resonance (this is your tuning frequency its a good rule two build it a...
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    why is my vb so high?

    k well on my specs for my subs that the manufacturerer provided it recomends 1 cubic foot per sub. so thats 2 cubic feet not incluning the volume taken up by vents and sub woofer displacement right. well on carstereo's sight to determine your Vb or in other words the ammount of volume neede for...
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    why is my vb so high?

    the factory recomends 1 cubic foot per sub but when i calculate my internal volume for two drivers it gives me 5.452 cubic feet. and i need this to determine vent length. so what the hell?
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    is this true if so whats the best for me?

    IS THIS INFO TRUE? what type of a box should i build my subs are kinda inbetween heres the specs for mine. Qts=0.43 fs=28Hz Xmax=13.87 Vas=2.048251 (cubic feet) Fs divided by Qes = 62.2222222...... based on this info(if its true) should i build a ported or a sealed enclosure? INFO BELOW...
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