Phoenix Gold Phorum

I went and picked up roadster #52 from scott29 today and hade a 3 hr drive back to dream about how to use it in my mustang. I think it should be a pretty good match for both my diamond audio hes 3 ways that I have now, or the Ti Elite 3 way Ti9 -5 -1 I have on its way now(been an expensive month had to break out the credit card). Not sure when I will actually install it, still dreaming..

My question, is that I remembered that in my closet I got a R-link complete with a SDT display. I noticed that the amp doesn't have the rddp output but does have a protection led that comes on for thermal monitoring. Would it be posible to get the two to work together? I know the voltage is no big deal for the r-link, but is the protection led output compatible? I am already running a dakota digital power(Wattage) meter and have the exact amount of room next to it behind my smoked plexi display to replace the volt gauge with this one.

anyone have the schematics or the inside to be able to answer this?

The pinout for the RDDP isn't a problem. The R-link system was able to monitor voltage, power on/off, thermal protection, and overload protection simultaneously. The "Tech Support" section of the archive is chalk full of all sorts of goodies!

http://download.phoenixphorum.com/TechSupport/

On the Roadster side of things the power on/off should be pretty straight forward as there will be an easily accessible "teather" from the board to the light on the removable top of the case. The tougher part of making it work is figuring out the Roadster protection circuit. I can't find anything to tell me if the protection circuit already differentiates the thermal and overload protection. The RSD's don't specify which problem had tripped the protection so there's a good chance it doesn't. Was there a Roadster66 specific manual or did it just come with the 600/1 and 500/4 manuals? All I really have to go by is a shot from ampguts...

http://ampguts.com/gallery/showphoto.ph ... e&cat=1372

Either way, once you figure out where to tap into the protection monitoring you are left with the challenge of getting the circuits to the outside of the amp case/heatsink.

it is a roadster specific manual and it really doesn't talk about the amp internally much.

I am not too concerned with the conections or getting the wires outside of the chassis as where there is a will there is a way.

The sdt display looks to be made by dakota digital which is the same as y power meter. The two next to each other would be just like two perty TITTIES!