building your box - do you use speaker terminals?

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

looks like it.

personally i run wire straight out the bottom, sealed up and call it a day. Some people want terminals, as they look cleaner, and i cannot disagree with that, so when they ask for terminals, they will get them.

 

[-01limited- 10+ year member]

The bolt thing is you run the bolt from the inside of the box to the out. On the inside should be two nuts to put your wire in between. Then on the outside two more nuts, one to get the bolt tight to the box and the other to screw down to the first nut to secure your wire. Probably dont understand a bit of that lol, Pics could describe it a lot better. sorry:crap:

 

[Sephious 10+ year member]

The bolt thing is you run the bolt from the inside of the box to the out. On the inside should be two nuts to put your wire in between. Then on the outside two more nuts, one to get the bolt tight to the box and the other to screw down to the first nut to secure your wire. Probably dont understand a bit of that lol, Pics could describe it a lot better. sorry:crap:

Makes sense to me, and was exactly what I was guessing you guys meant.

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

I don't use terminals, I just drill holes in the box and run the wires through it. Terminals are usually cheap and provide more resistance. Even terminal leads on subs provide more resistance. What I've heard is you loose 10% of your power or so with standard push terminals. That's why companies like DD use direct leads, no terminals.

10% LOL, you heard wrong. The owner of audioque was touting the same bullshit on another forum once upon a time. Go get a dmm and see how much resistance a push terminal or terminal cup gives you. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

Haunz, good post, i was wondering how that was even measured anyhow.

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

A lot of the time I just drill a hole.. its cheaper and if you don't move the box around its fine.. But if you are building a box that might get moved around its definatly nice to have terminal cups.. I buy good quality cups to begin with, and after my wires are soldered in I fill them with kitty hair fiber glass to seal the cup and regain the integrity of the box..

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

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[Haunz 10+ year member]

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[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

i just drill a hole and caulk it after mainly because i never keep a box that long im always changing to get it a little better if im every happy enough with a box some day i will probably just do bolts for wiring changes for daily and comp 2ohm to .5ohm

i know someone who does this

 

[DonH 5,000+ posts]

i make my own terminals for all my customers boxes. for normal every day boxes i cut 1.75" long pieces of 10-24 all thread. two pieces one for positive one for negative. then i used 10/24 size nuts. two for each piece of all thread. drill the proper size holes for the all thread to snugly fit through. slide each all thread in. thread one bolt on the outside and one on the inside. then tighten both at the same time untill it is extremely tight! if it comes loose the wood will start to burn. now get some 10-24 wing nuts. 4 total. thread those on and bam the terminal is done. now just use ring terminals from the leads of the woofer. slide them onto the all thread and tighten down the wing nuts.

 

[I Like Waffle]

I dont use terminals in my personal setups because they break easy, and restrict power IMO. I prefer to have it wired straight not flowing through a flimsy *** piece of steel or whatever. For customers boxes i usually do use terminals.

 

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

anybody have any proof that terminals actually effect power? just out of curiosity.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

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Wowzers.

Like I said, I've never measured it. Just something I heard.

I hate putting terminals in. It's so much easier to just drill a hole and run your wire through it.

Oh ya I still have subs with push terminals. They definitely don't keep you from getting loud.