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My mids are in my doors in the stock location and my tweeters are up near the sails on the piece of plastic by the sideview mirrors. Soundstage is about as high as the tweeters are, so just under ear level.

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11 with my subs at 400W. I'm guessing probably 13 when I figure out what the hell is causing my alternator to not give out anything more than about 80 amps.

The belt is definitely tight on there, and I can't make it any tighter. My tensioner is spring-loaded and does the tensioning itself. Also: I have checked my grounds. They're good.

So PowermaxUSA replied awhile back and asked if I had used the smaller pulley that came with the alternator. I definitely didn't change the pulley on it, so that's not the problem. I bought a new battery, made no difference, tried temporary larger wire runs, no difference. At this point it's...

But don't actually do this, unless you like frying stuff and possibly harming your alternator itself.

From what I can find his alt is 130 amps stock.

My thoughts exactly. I see it as a source of distortion, nothing more.

Sent a message to PowermaxUSA. We'll see what they say.

Yeah, and the calculator said 0.17 volts, where I measured 0.15. So it's pretty accurate. At the absolute max I'd ever have my subs, and accounting for amp inefficiency, it says 0.48 volts, which is still pretty negligible when we're talking about starting from 13.8 or higher. The voltage drop...

I'm no longer running those voltages. I currently have my subs at 350 watts (as low as I can get them at 1 ohm with this amp) until this is resolved. The voltage drop is far less severe at this wattage. Also, I'm measuring with a multimeter at the amp's terminals and the battery terminals. At...

I may be interpreting it wrong, but assuming I'm at 150 amps for the sake of easily going with the chart, the power run from the alt to the battery is 7 feet and would be equivalent to almost 2 gauge due to running a 4 and an 8 gauge wire. The grounds are 4 gauge and both significantly less than...

It's a 2007 Mazda 3. I'm not so sure about that. My 4 gauge is capable of 200 amps up to 20 feet, and 200 amps is more than the amp can possibly output, and I'm running nowhere near 200 amps to the amp. EDIT: The eBay alternator you linked above is the one I have in my car right now. EDIT2...

Big 3 has been done. This is a new alt. It's a 200 amp alternator from eBay from California Alternator and Starter.