This question is gonna sound retarded but please help me?

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Im gonna use my friend's DMM to set the gains on my sub amp and speaker amp. Well, i breifly read the sticky, and noticed some people saying the ideal voltage is like 35 volts on their amp. How the hell do you get such a high voltage? Don't most car batteries only go up to 14.4 or so? Am i missing something here? Also, what mode to you put the DMM on to measure voltage on the amp to set the gains? I apologize if this is a dumb question, but im very confused.

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[kuijo 10+ year member]

Hence the word AMPLIFIER. The 35 volts is coming out of the amp.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Hence the word AMPLIFIER. The 35 volts is coming out of the amp.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif thanks. Also, if i have a component amp as well, does that sticky say how to set speaker amp gains? And should i set the sub amp gain level first, or the speaker amp gain?

 

[mattmcss 10+ year member]

Go and read through the sticky again so you know what voltage to expect out of your amp.

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

35 isn't ideal. Ideal is diffrent from application to application, amp to amp.

Which one you set first doesn't matter. And setting speaker amp is the exact same except you use a diffrent tone.

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Go and read through the sticky again so you know what voltage to expect out of your amp.

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Also, If your amp is rated higher than your speakers (RMS) then use the speakers RMS rating. That way you wont overpower them.