does it really damage amps mounting them to boxes

[outspoken 10+ year member]

... this statement starts out with a profound misunderstanding of physics and ends with you just making an *** of yourself.
Get a silicone board, solder something onto it. Shake it rambunctiously... If you know how to solder... shaking it won't do anything.

You also have to remember... if you make a wave, anything on that wave will be disturbed less when frequencies (ZOMG, hertz?) are lower, and will be more disturbed when frequencies are high.

Subs perform from ~10-~110 Hz... your car rattles upwards of 1K Hz.... Hard mounting it to your frame will be the same as mounting it to a box.

Not to mention if your box is flexing, you did it wrong.

The best way to mount any amp is to use rubber grommets under the amp to reduce the effect of ANY vibration. From either the sub, or car.

thats what i thought...

 

[johnbubby5]

plus if you remove your amp or get a new one, you get screw holes/air leaks.

no just fill the holes with the screws... duh. lol

 

[GavinVoy 10+ year member]

this is why we have vibration frequency, right?

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

Either use rubber grommets or a good deadener between the amp and the box. Problem solved.

Or if you are really worried about it go box, layer of deadener, piece of mdf, rubber grommets, amp.

 

[Mass Car Audio 10+ year member]

never mount your amp to your box it willkill it.

 

[outspoken 10+ year member]

never mount your amp to your sub box it will kill it.

why?

 

[Mass Car Audio 10+ year member]

why?

All electronics hate vibrations, they will fall apart over time even if mounted with rubber mounts. That would be like mounting your seat in your car to your engine block and it shaking the crap out of you.

 

[outspoken 10+ year member]

All electronics hate vibrations, they will fall apart over time even if mounted with rubber mounts. That would be like mounting your seat in your car to your engine block and it shaking the crap out of you.

so i will ask again, where in the car is a "safe" place to mount where vibration wont effect the amp? keep in mind my box is bolted to the frame of my car...

 

[Mass Car Audio 10+ year member]

I put my amps in the trunk of my car beside my batteries and I even have the amps rubber mounted to a 1 inch peice of MDF thats fiberglassed to the floor of the trunk.

 

[outspoken 10+ year member]

I put my amps in the trunk of my car beside my batteries and I even have the amps rubber mounted to a 1 inch peice of MDF thats fiberglassed to the floor of the truck.

and it vibrates less there than on the box? how did you measure this?

my bad double post

 

[outspoken 10+ year member]

I put my amps in the trunk of my car beside my batteries and I even have the amps rubber mounted to a 1 inch peice of MDF thats fiberglassed to the floor of the truck.

and it vibrates less there than on the box? how did you measure this? and how much less vibration occurs in this magical zone you have created? could you post some numbers or something so i can clearly understand this?

my bad double post... **** slow forum...

 

[Mass Car Audio 10+ year member]

Theres no room in the cab for my amps. I have a wall where the back seat was so I had to mount them in the trunk. But if you have your subs in the trunk that wont work because a trunk holds back alot of sound pressure.

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

All electronics hate vibrations, they will fall apart over time even if mounted with rubber mounts. That would be like mounting your seat in your car to your engine block and it shaking the crap out of you.

What about mounting my ECU near my engine against the metal of the car, why hasn't it fallen off after 15 years and 211,xxx miles?

Your statement is not full proof.

You think my ECU in my Honda Prelude is any better built than a 3600 dollar amp?

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

... this statement starts out with a profound misunderstanding of physics and ends with you just making an *** of yourself.
Get a silicone board, solder something onto it. Shake it rambunctiously... If you know how to solder... shaking it won't do anything.

You also have to remember... if you make a wave, anything on that wave will be disturbed less when frequencies (ZOMG, hertz?) are lower, and will be more disturbed when frequencies are high.

Subs perform from ~10-~110 Hz... your car rattles upwards of 1K Hz.... Hard mounting it to your frame will be the same as mounting it to a box.

Not to mention if your box is flexing, you did it wrong.

The best way to mount any amp is to use rubber grommets under the amp to reduce the effect of ANY vibration. From either the sub, or car.

My cheap *** Boss amp has been mounted to the back of my sub box (with rubber grommets) for more than a year, and it still works perfectly.

Well if what i have seen happen to amps from being mounted on the back of a box makes me look like an ***, then so be it. Maybe i should have also stated ive seen caps and transformers fall of boards as well.

 

[Mass Car Audio 10+ year member]

What about mounting my ECU near my engine against the metal of the car, why hasn't it fallen off after 15 years and 211,xxx miles?Your statement is not full proof.

You think my ECU in my Honda Prelude is any better built than a 3600 dollar amp?

A ECU is made to take the elements of the outdoors and the vibration of the engine and the road, that would be stupid of a car company to make a ECU that would fall off driving down the road. A amplifer is way diffrent that a ECU for a car.