Okay that makes sense now. Thank you, once again LOL.
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Okay that makes sense now. Thank you, once again LOL.
Sorry I missed the q till now. In 9 channel set-up (2 amps) You run your front rca's from your deck to the amp powering your interior speakers. Even though it is technically a 5 channel amp you can you have 3 rca inputs on the amp.
You flip the switch that lets the 4 high pass channels run off of one set of rca's. You then can chose to run an additional rca from the deck sub output to signal the sub for better control through your deck, or flip the switch and let the single set of rca's run the whole amp. That is why most muli-channel amps have a remote bass boost because if you let the one rca set run the amp then you loose bass control. This is in case you have a limited amount of rca outputs on the deck.
Then you bridge the towers to the other amp and run those off of the rear rca out-put, and switch it to single signal input, as razz pointed out earlier.
Clear as mud?
I hate mud ;)
Me too, the worst part is when you get in it on your finger you have smell it to make sure that its not just mud!:p
Dude that is just wrong:) Correct but wrong.
Had to bring that up as well huh? ;)
Thats funny!
OK its time to do the deed. Time to drill some holes in my tower and mount these new speakers. Be back later with some pictures. Successful pictures i hope.
Just take it nice and slow. Also invite Newty over for a beer or two so you can have him dril the holes for you. :D
You bring the boat up here and the beer and I'll show you how to do it!!
I'll even let you use my drill.
Well how did it go? Get it figured out? Can't wait to hear it!
If i was allowed to drink beer i just might have done that. Just might have. Still holding off on beer till i get closer to my goal weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by jester
Actually the truth is i don't want to take the boat across the I5 bridge to Vancouver in rush hour. Plus is i went to Newty's to drink beer and work on the boat i think more beer and story telling would get done then work lol.
I will take Newty up on an offer to bring beer and the boat to his house but it will be to make Sub woofer stuff this fall or something LOL>
Well the update is, i got the speakers mounted. I got the wires fished down to the first hinge. The hole is drilled after the first hinge.Quote:
Originally Posted by newty
Allergies were kicking my arse today my eyes were so red and swollen when Claudia got home she was teasing me. Pinchi Cabrona.
Anyhow i didnt have any of the plastic wire tubing, so i went to Home Depot to get some.
Tomorrow i have to drill the hole at the base of the tower into the boat area with the amps. Then run the wires in there and hook it up. I have several pics and ill have a few more tomorrow to post after the install.
Pinchi Cabrona, good to hear. there should be a little hole already there under the tower foot.
OK got everything done finally today. Drilled the last hole and the most important one. The lower tower mount to the craw space. That was a very nerve racking hole because i didn't want to remove the tower as Cab did. I just don't have the space or a safe way to do it without risking the tower getting damaged.
So i drilled that hole and the lower section of the tube after the hinge was by fare the hardest to fish wire. Its at a weird angle at the base where it goes in. I finally got it after a good hour of crawling into the hole and back out. Two people would have made this a lot easier.
Anyhow after i got that it was a matter of running it to the amp and then reinstalling the 2 batteries.
Got the speakers tuned as best i can in the driveway, they are echoing off the house LOL.
I do have to say its incredibly loud in the boat now and the sub just doesn't seem to keep up. Thats a winter project im sure.
Pic 1 tools for the job
Pic 2 my debur tool. All i had but it worked well.
Pic 3 holes in top of the tower
Pic 4 Holes in the cross tube at the hinge point.
Next thread.
Pic 1 wires now fished threw upper tower
Pic 2 wires fished threw the cross tube hinge section
Pic 3 Wires fished threw lower tower mount into cubby hole
Pic 4 Wires all ran to the amps.
Pic 1 Tower speakers mounted.
Pic 2 another angle showing the plastic wire covers
Pic 3 Factory look to match the light wires on the Drivers side.
Pic 4 All done batteries back in place.
Looks great nice job.
Looks good. Now i can't wait to hear it on the water. You should just bust the tunes in the driveway just so the people next door know you have finished installing the tower speakers.
Nice work Mike! I can't believe you were able to fish that wire thru the hole at the tower foot into the boat. That must have been a nightmare! So I guess your tower feet are welded to the tower tube like mine is? They must have been bolted only for 2007, or maybe that was an option?
Ohh you know i cranked it up brother. I had my neighbors on both sides come out and ask how it was going. They seen me working on it the last couple days and today when i was done i cranked a few tracks.Quote:
Originally Posted by jester
Sat back and listened imagining i was on the water. Only complaint is man that tower is heavy now when i fold it down to put it in the garage lol.
It was a huge pain let me tell ya. I had to fish the wire UP the up to the top, then tape it to the loom where the boat antenna is to hold it up in there. I went to the hinge and pulled it out then had to fish the speakers wires down and use a long thin screw driver to get the speaker wires to drop threw the deep hole i drilled threw the fiberglass plate the tower bolts to.Quote:
Originally Posted by cab13367
Yea i was running the risk the tower wouldn't be hollow at the base but it was thank gawd. I figured if i drilled the hole and the tower wasn't hollow at that weld point then i would deal with taking the tower off the boat.
I do want to toss some thanks out to those in need of it.
Cab13367 for the excellent pics of your tower install, man that made it a lot easier.
Razzman for your help with amps, speakers and wiring advise.
Newty for your help with amps, speakers and wiring advise.
The rest of the Moomba people for support of other things here and being a great group of people to talk to and get help from.
I couldn't ask for a better group of people to call friends that i have never been able to actually meet yet.
Lookin' good! Nice clean install! That's what's nice about a good owners forum such as this one, everyone's there for each other to pass banter and advice.
Agreed Razz!