Phoenix Gold Phorum

I dropped the car off tonight...and the monsters are ready to go in!

Only issue is that the installers were concerned about how much current these amps draw (as they remember these amps from their heyday). A lot of concern about voltage drop, and if I'm not careful, blowing speakers...

My good friend told me as long as I'm a careful user, too much power won't hurt, but will be beneficial. Yes, you can annihilate speakers with violent amps, but only if you go over the top (and you can do this with average amps too). Under normal operating circumstances it's better to have more power than less...

Anyways, I have a respectable electrical system at bay. Here's what I have:

140 amp stock alternator
Stinger SP1700 battery
Three 1 farad Stinger capacitors wired in parallel

Someone remind me which wires comprised the "big 3"??

I think I'm in good shape....what do you guys think? I don't wanna regret getting the MS1000, but it is a dope amp.

should be ok, i run an sp1700 and have 5 ms amps and never had any issues with power.

big 3 is alternator to battery (+), earth to battery (-) and engine to earth (-).

stock 140 altinator...is this a bmw by chance?!?

You'll be fine if you're modest with the gains. Number one cause of electrical problems is clipping.

marko wrote:should be ok, i run an sp1700 and have 5 ms amps and never had any issues with power.

big 3 is alternator to battery (+), earth to battery (-) and engine to earth (-).

Earth???What?

That's english for ground

AVICJR wrote:

marko wrote:should be ok, i run an sp1700 and have 5 ms amps and never had any issues with power.

big 3 is alternator to battery (+), earth to battery (-) and engine to earth (-).

Earth???What?

sorry, didn't know you never used the term "earth"!! yes ground

Bfowler wrote:stock 140 altinator...is this a bmw by chance?!?

'05 Pontiac GTO 6.0 actually.

stipud wrote:You'll be fine if you're modest with the gains. Number one cause of electrical problems is clipping.

Nice.

Ugh!!!

Everything is installed and working, BUT the right side of my front stage!!!

One channel off the MS1000 apparently isn't working....passive crossover, rcas supposedly have been checked.

A friend mentioned that perhaps a fuse has blown and it's that simple??

In an amazing coincidence, we have a spare MS1000 that we might use to swap boards in if we can't resolve this any other way...

Any ideas??!

On the bright side, I did get to listen to an 80% tuned system and it sounds richer, punchier, and stronger! A lot of potential, and it seems like the headache has been worth it...

Just need to listen to it in stereo.

since its a ms1000 why dont you use the other end of it to power your
mids and highs

check teh fuse on the board to see if blown

second if only the left works then stick it in bridged mode with the switch
and let it run your subs...
it only needs the left input signal to use it in brigded mode and then use the left pos and right neg, if there is something wrong with that channel
you wont beable to get any output.

let us know.