Hooking up fans?

oh ok then the mtx amps are for your wife's car?

maybe you can get the little man to set the gains when its put together.lol

he'll be your assistant.

 

cool. what kind of box for the trunk of her car

 

as long as it sounds good.i'm sure she will be happy

 

Cool program! A little complicated though. My guy's name is george, he watches over my system and lives inside the sub box!

 

no, this was my first time trying it, all i drew was the sub box, everything else is just pasted in through the program. I don't like how its set up but i'm sure it can do amazing things if you want to put the time in. I use adobe illustrator pretty well every day for work so i'm used to that program and like how it's set up.

 

I did draw this though from a picture, with adobe illustrator.

 

more..I've done lot's like this. I didn't draw the trees in this one.

 

If you buy some fans at radioshack, they work nice....Just make sure they are DC voltage fans and not AC....I would just power and ground the relay from your amp power and ground, then use the remote turn on wire to turn the relay on...That is how I did it in the past and it worked perfect...you can either turn the fans around to push or pull, or you can wire them in reverse, either way it will probably not make any difference....

If it were me, I would probably put two on each end...Two pushing air in and two pulling air out...The way you have it should work fine too...As long as you are moving air around them...Make sure you lave a little air gap on top of the amps so air can get up around there...Even if the gap is 1/4"..just don't sit the MDF directly on the heat sink (top) of the amp...

Willy

 

in terms of fan placement. think of a computer. the intake fan is at the bottom and in the front and the exhaust fan is at the top in the rear. Heat rises so as the cool air comes in it circulates over the components causing the air to become hot so it rises to the top fan and is easily removed. So just try to position the fans in a way that will allow nature to help out with the cooling. forcing the air where it doesnt want to go will restrict your cooling. im willing to say you could get by with just one fan being used as an exhaust with vents around the bottom of the false floor.

 

http://ampguts.realmofexcursion.com/Elemental_Designs_NINe.1/inside1.jpg

its a small fan tho.

 

my friends nine.1 pushin two 13ov.2s at 1ohm is always cool to the touch.

 

it doesnt run hot.

didnt check after todays beating.will do it tomorrow tho.

 

My Nine.1 runs pretty cool. It'll get warm but never hot. That one little fan does a lot. I can feel the air moving out the sides if I try