4 Fi Audio IB3 18's walled off 15Hz tune in a VAN BUILD LOG

heres a vid of the toggle switch rig and doing the sequence to get video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ktGpYKpQQ

 

well good! As long as people are interested then I'll keep doin it No date, hell I thought I'd have ben 2 weeks ago, but every day i go out there with 4 goals in mind, but after I get 1 thing done, I'm so happy

 

I'm so ****ed right now. years ago I was getting 50 foot rolls of 14 gauge speaker wire from walmart. I'm tired of Best Buy **** talking walmart, thinking they know more and have better ****. They DONT know **** at best buy even with special training. So best buy has always carried Monster Cable, 18 times the cost for the name and pretty color, and, generally smaller gauge.

Well walmart stopped selling it years ago. They do monster cable now too. I had rewards card points about to expire at best buy fro purchases made YEARS ago. I had to use them. So I went and got a 100 foot spool for $50. Today I got ready to start running wire and realized... it's 16 gauge! I'm running 14,000 watts RMS. I'm not using 16 gauge. I have 1 50 foot spool of the old walmart 14 gauge that I have saved for this project for YEARS. I have some scrap around too that I used for my old HT way back when I got all this.

So I have a 100 foot spool of 16 gauge bought with a rewards card cupon. Keep it and install with this? Hope I have enough old "cheap" walmart that is just as good if not better?

Sorry if you work at best buy. I've gotten in fights with employees on forums before. Dont take it personally. I have yet to meet a single best buy employee that knows what thiele small paramteres are, winisd, or anything else that means anything..after all their "training". Too expensive for the same **** everyone else sells.

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alright, i ran to walmart, they have 50 foot spools of 14 gauge scosche for $13 and 50 foot of 12 gauge for $18. its even pretty blue and silver. I think i have enough old yellow to do all this, but if not I can go get more at walmart. Ill take my 16 gauge bb back and get some movies if they let me. gonna go install some wire.

 

so, this morning i woke up motivated (usually it takes me a cpl hours, shower..check email, check forums, drive somewhere...then maybe start working) I was ready to grab the wire I got at BB and start running it. I spent all day running around town like a ree-ree, wasting time. I just grabbed my scrap 14 gauge I've had for years and ran it...all of it except the 2 tweeters... I haven't even opened the roll of yellow yet. It took me all of 10 minutes.

But I'll look at it this way... now i know walmart still carries the cheapest 14 gauge in town. I might get some DVDs instead of the 16 gauge. So the running around was worth it? IDK.

 

I'm sorry Best Buy! I was steamed, now I'm good. Whenever I shop there, I hear so much about how much better than Walmart BB is. But it's not. So I took the wire back, it' a non-return item, but she did anyway..and it was a rewards purchase, so i need to wait for the awards to be reissued. I picked up Inside Man with the cash portion of the refund, and I'll get The Incredible Hulk or something with the rewards.

I forgot to mension I ordered another roll of 50ft 0 gauge, same place, same wire.

 

thanks very much! It's time consuming, so much more work than meets they eye. I've been jelous my whole life... I've always been broke ass. But I caught my lucky break and Im runnin with it as fast as I can!

 

whats crackin! Did you ever answer the PR question? Maybe I didn't ask... is that 2 subs and a PR in your sig? If I missed it, hell if we talked about it and I forgot, I'm sorry!

 

and a friggen PR er wut dudes! I see 2 diff colors on three diff "subz"

 

twice the coil...hmmmm...

 

Alright I let the skeleton template cure and pulled the roof back out. It worked well, I traced the skeleton onto cardboard, ripped the template off, and now I'm glassing off the cardboard templates. I haven't thrown the glass matting on yet becuase the cardboard wants to tip. After the first layer cures then I can hit it with more resin, put on glass matt, and hit it with another layer..process repeat.

 

me either man it seems like its dragging out forever

 

For everyone that has at least given constructive criticism, who has said "hey I would..because" or "I wouldn't have...because" without being condecending, arrogant, or rude... to everyone that has said "hey, looks nice" "can't wait" subscribed". To everyone with something good to say, even when saying something that could be done different. Thank you all so much! It seems like this will never get done, but you all keep me motivated.

To those of you who think i'm cutting every corner, so far as to say this thing is a hazard to innocent people getting demos once complete. To those that said I messed up bad by choosing to foam instead of doing 2x4's (though this thing has plenty of 2x6's ) without doing so politely. The foam situation has panned out, it needed more time, it has cured. To those that knock my use of duct tape... there is no permentant duct tape other than for my wiring, and what i have used it for other than that thus far has worked great. thanks. For those that think I screwed up by not getting pure copper 0 gauge that cost twice as much ( not the guy from AVS, you have been very helpful man..thank you) For those that think I messed up going with "infinite baffle" drivers ( not the SQ world champ that basically set the parameters for the IB3s ) for those that think its so awful I put the front stage, so to speak..correct or not, in the roof (not you Fallen, we never really cared what you thought anyway ) For those that think it's too much power for the IB3's... well Ive run Lanzar OPTI2000D on them, Hifonics BXi2610D, EP4000, as well as Regent HT-391 showing me just how efficient they can be with no more than 150-200 watts.

For you, well, I'm not gonna use glass matt on the cardboard divider for the 4.5's either...so there! As my boy Fiddy said: I need you to hate. So I can use you for your energy.

But I will use the glass matt where the gap is between the MDF roof and the frame where it meets the windshield

 

cracked open that spool of 14 gauge and ran the tweets, 4.5's, and one 6.5 with it and used 3 old for the last three 6.5's. Put some caulk in the corner of the resin for a little extra reinforcement and make sure it stays air tight.