1/0 reducers touching..??

[JL Audio 5,000+ posts]

i would do a few layers of heatshrink

going to go pick up some tomorrow and order the reducers, I appreciate the advice guys. amazed it was actually help in a thread you know the forums.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

i'm considering getting some for my AQ1200ds but.. judging from caps's pics of his system.. they seem **** close to each other. anyone else think this may be a little close on these? If they happened to touch.. anyone have any idea what would happen? anyone have experience with them?

What would happen if they touch?

... think. They're two big solid masses of conductive metal of opposite polarities touching.

It'll ground out and sparks will fly.

I've seen people do a bunch of different things, from tape to heat shrink, someone even made a separator out of ABS.

 

[MakeshiftAudio 10+ year member]

You do not need a few LAYERS of heatshrink. That's BS. The only case where you need more than one layer is in high voltage application (1kV or more), and even then, you're doing it wrong if you're relying on heatshrink to insulate your wires/connectors, there are better things like epoxy and ceramic.

One layer is enough. Anything to keep them apart.

On the welding thing: My ooold hobby when I was younger was to make sparks. That's about it. I went from high voltage (200kV+@1mA+), to LVHC(1kV@20kJ) dead short, to HVHC(RF 500kV@20mA+). xD Then there was the LVHC transformers, where you have 50kW worth of 40VAC energy shorted, dissipating a crap ton into whatever you shorted it. Whoo for 4/0AWG wire secondaries when winding transformers around 200lb laminated iron cores from old distribution transformers!!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[JL Audio 5,000+ posts]

What would happen if they touch?
... think. They're two big solid masses of conductive metal of opposite polarities touching.

It'll ground out and sparks will fly.

I've seen people do a bunch of different things, from tape to heat shrink, someone even made a separator out of ABS.

after i had looked over my post I decided to just leave it like I had it but that was misworded.. I was just trying to explain it in my head I guess it did sound right but when I wrote it .. the msg was screwed up in translation lol. Appreciate the explanation anyway bro. Thanks.

You do not need a few LAYERS of heatshrink. That's BS. The only case where you need more than one layer is in high voltage application (1kV or more), and even then, you're doing it wrong if you're relying on heatshrink to insulate your wires/connectors. One layer is enough.

I R Teh heatshrinkerz.

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

I had some with plastic caps covering them. Otherwise, some electrical tape over one will do the trick

 

[MatcoGuy456 10+ year member]

And by the way caps amp is a power acoustic your getting a AQ 1200 I believe the AQs are more beefier and seperated a bit..

 

[JL Audio 5,000+ posts]

And by the way caps amp is a power acoustic your getting a AQ 1200 I believe the AQs are more beefier and seperated a bit..

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif just showed pics for example.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif only thing i had to work with! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

the reducers with plastic stuff already around them would have been nice, i'm going to go with stinger i'm pretty sure, they look very nice.

 

[Stephen_c 10+ year member]

more=better

 

[MatcoGuy456 10+ year member]

I have a pair of stingers there nice..

 

[MakeshiftAudio 10+ year member]

I don't think people get the point.

The rule is, roughly 1mm per 1.1kVDC@60hzAC(Meaning it does not count for RF or RF filtered) You do the math. Pretty much means they have to touch directly.

A single layer of heatshrink is enough. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Itt'd look nice over the ones in the pic I think.