Sound sytem pics and hyper-ground pics - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

Ostornadoe · 01-13-2005, 07:13 PM

Finally got around to taking pics of my sound system and custom hyper-ground system....

Here's my 900 Watt Rockford Fosgate amp...

Here are my 1200 Watt max, 350 RMS watt 10" Audio Mobile subs. Total of 2400 Watts max or 700 RMS.

Here are my upgraded wires and my custom hyper-ground system...

dna59 · 01-13-2005, 07:56 PM

Looks good. I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't good to put your amp unto your sub box. Somehting about the vibration and the amp. I don't know how true it is though.

Ostornadoe · 01-13-2005, 08:01 PM

Hmmmmm.... Well let me know if you see or hear about that again. I've never heard of that, but the subs would make it vibrate a lot. Thanks.

Ukrainian102 · 01-13-2005, 08:28 PM

Yea man the amp has a lot of internal workings in it, you don't want that thing to shake more than it needs to.

But cool stuff!

Ostornadoe · 01-13-2005, 09:08 PM

Well I guess I'll probably move my amp to the back of the seat, so it's basically in the same place, just not taking the vibrations straight off the box.

I haven't done the Alt+ to battery + yet, but so far it hasn't really helped dimming much. Might be because I'm just pushing a lot of watts through the system, and the alternator is pretty small. Either way, it makes my engine look cool

DarkMastyr · 01-13-2005, 10:31 PM

Don't worry about the amp on the box thing. I have both my amps nailed to my box (see here http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t61045.html )

I've never had any issues. Not unless you have a horribly crappy amp should you worry.

McTimson · 01-13-2005, 10:38 PM

I think the issue was that when you use lower quality wood, like thin particleboard or something, the vibrations would be too much for the amp to handle, and over time, capacitors would actually come loose from the PCB, and that just messes everything up.

You should take bigger pics! It looks good, but I can't really see the ground system.

Luc · 01-14-2005, 09:32 PM

You'll have no problems with mounting the amp on the box. The "internal workings" can sustain the vibration, since they are all soldered onto the circuit board. All board manufacturers MUST perform vibration tests to make sure nothing falls off.

The capacitors, transistors, resistors, or inductors will NOT fall off (for a company like RF), they are more likely to break down or deteriorate first (all companies).