THE Thread

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

well im off to work. Wonder if ill crash into anything.

crash into a hot girl, she'll put ya out of your dizziness:naughty:

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/woot.gif.aaa6090e619a97b6090d16dd863c5a69.gif for Prowlah.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/woot.gif.aaa6090e619a97b6090d16dd863c5a69.gif for me as well because I hooked myself a little side work.

A friend of a friend wanted some tunes in his work van.

He's already bought and had installed (by Best Buy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif) a DEH-P5800MP and two sets of Pioneer coaxials running off of HU power.

He wanted a little bass (any bass at all would be enough for him is the impression I get) but refused to buy used or from eBay.

Retail with a full warranty only.

And he only wanted one 10" because of space restrictions and it had to be from a name brand that he at least somewhat recognized.

*sigh*

I hate really strict limitations like this...

But what he ended up with is a pair of 10" CVRs from Crutchfield and a Profile AP1000 2-channel from them as well.

I got him to order the DVC 2 Ohm models so the one that will get installed can be wired to 4 Ohms and run off of the amp in bridged mode.

He and I are going to build the box and I'm donating the necessary wiring.

Ought to make for a decently fun weekend anyway just having something to do, I reckon. Plus he's paying me a little for helping him out and getting him $20 off of his order by using my Crutchfield referral code.

Actually - $250/shipped for a pair of CVRs and an amp with a full 1 year warranty on the subs and 3 years on the amp really isn't that bad when you think about it...

So - he'll have the one in his van and a perfectly good spare in case he tears the sub up after the warranty runs out.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Nice! Those subs should work pretty well in there.

 

[shava 10+ year member]

That is a good deal for the subs and amp. I got ***** on my stuff //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Gah work //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Gah no buddieZ online //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

I was at work too. You know you love work

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

I do?

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

yes you do, you keep going everyday!

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

And im going back now.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Hmmm, I do not like your logic.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://www.auburn.edu/~shephcd/whatyouare.html

What are you?

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

So we got dude's little bit of audio into his work van.

I didn't know it prior to getting stuck into it but we were essentially working with the same interior space as a standard cab pickup.

It's an '05 3/4-ton Chevy Express - with a divider between the driver's/passenger's seats and the cargo area.

He works for a company that builds and installs commercial fire suppresion systems so his van is always full of various types of chemicals meant for that purpose. The owner of the company had all the vans fitted with a divider between the cargo area and the front so that the employee isn't always having to breath in the Ansulex and whatever else he may have multiple containers of behind him.

So - the little setup we hooked him up with sounds better than I was expecting for what it is.

When he told me he was tight for usable space I thought it meant he simply didn't want the clutter of audio gear taking up room.

I was wrong - with all the crap he carries with him for his job there simply wasn't any room for anything bigger than a single 10" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

So - we built him a sealed box from .5" MDF (yeah, I know, but how thick does it need to be for a single 10" on

The amp's rated for 480w @ 4 Ohms mono bridged but it is a Profile so I figure about 400w to possibly 450w being all that it will actually do.

350 is within the sub's RMS ratings while still being enough to get plenty of output from the little guy and allowing for a bit of headroom from the amp.

The AP1000 does have a bass boost function but I didn't bother to look through the manual to see at what Hz it is centered. Just playing with it for a quick second resulted in what sounded like complete //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/sick.gif.b1847c8dabbfeeddbcf1a78052249e10.gif to me so it got left turned completely counterclockwise. Bleah. It wasn't good.

Aside from that one issue (which is easily solved by simply not engaging it) it sounds pretty freggin' good for what he's got running. He had the coaxials being driven by the deck running full range - not bothering to utilize the HU's internal crossovers - so after tweaking those a bit and ridding the coaxs of everything from about 65Hz and lower it really livened up.

Start to finish including taking the van's interior apart and putting everything back in place once we were finished was about 2 hours total.

For my labor helping him install it + the wiring I donated to this little operation he slid me a Grant after it was over with as well as supplying the 12 pack we drank our way through while working.

The cash he paid me in addition to the $20 referrel credit I got from Crutchfield because of his purchase made it about the same as making $70 + a six-pack for 2 hours work.

I'd call that a successful afternoon considering I had absolutely nothing else planned except lazing around in front of the TV or maybe online...

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Nice. I need to make some money on the side doing that. When I put that radio in that honda, I got a bottle of vodka. But that didnt take long at all.