Hiding amps, and cooling them help!

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

okay guys here is the deal! i am have gotten 2 new amp from sundown! killer amps the 1000d's!

anyways i wnat to hide them under my rear seats in my car! but i image i will run into some problem aka heat and maybe condensation and to much heat and water doesnt' mix well with amps.

so i was thinking of hiding them under my seats and then put a 120mm fan or 2 in to cool them off? i think i will have to go bigger

basiclay my question is has anyone done somehting like this before? b/c i don't really know what to do. i just have an idea and no clue if it will work!

i want to hid my amps under nearth my rear seat to save some space in my truck and alos if someone wnat to rob me some how it will be harder and more work to get to the amps/ extra batter also (hc2400 kinetik).

so please someone get back to me on this!!

thanks for your time

Ken

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[jrwalte 10+ year member]

condensation? You need something much 'colder' than the air around it to create condensation. Something heating up won't do that.

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

well couldn't it up and say if it was winter time and then i turn my car off and it goes from hot then right away to cold wouldn't condensation form?

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

so ya another quesiton to pick ppl's brains if i did put my amps under my seat i would have to worry about heat so i would have to put a fan under my seat and mount it similar to a computer fan? have one cooling them or should i put like 2 exhaused fans to get rid of the heat?

 

[rc10mike 10+ year member]

You would only get condensation if your amps were somehow colder than the air around it.

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

They may not need any fan at all. Just install them and see how hot they get. Worst case, they go into protect mode and then you know you need to spend the time to figure out how to install fans.

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

i guess i could jsut wing it and if i ended up needed to cool it down work from there, but if the amps go into protection mode due to overheating... wouldn't they be getting hurt?

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

That's what it's there for. Going into protect a few times won't hurt it.

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

question though lets just say that they do over heat and give me problems! how would you go about fixing this? like put fans into the rear seat as exhaust fans or should i jsut put too fans in there to move the heat around? or can someone venture an alternative idea??

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

You'd want the fans to blow across the amp.

An alternative would be to run a vent from your car's air system and turn the AC on //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

lmao that is a killer alternative idea! lmoa!! i like it lol! thanks for the idea jrwalte you rock!

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

2 fans on each amp on the side where the power/ground connections are blowing down the heatsinks would help. That's what I did with the ones under my box in the spare tire well....

partsexpress has them for like $8 each and use a single relay to wire/power them all.

 

[GMCJimmyslt2000 10+ year member]

u will be fine... Look at Meades Hoe...hes got a bunch of **** under his seats and i dont think he has fans cooling them.

like everyone else has said, if they do go into protect, than buy some comp fans to cool them.

 

[pawn man 10+ year member]

look at the stinger squirlcage fans. you need to put a couple of fans blowing towards the amps & a couple pulling the hot air away from the amps. i have mounted amps under plexiglass numerous times.