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Well I just got back from a comp and well have to say I am very disappointed in my car but am even more disappointed in myself. You see I had noticed that when I finished putting the system back in my car I wasn't getting to much low end from my system and really the only low end was my note, well I chalked this up to everything being set to play this note good, well I get to the comp and make my first pass, whoa it sucked, well I was sand-bagging alittle bit, and coughed that up to that so I turned up all my gains and went to eliminations, well I knew I was gonna be destroyed but was gonna make a run at it, well I made my pass and boom only picked up 2 db, I was like dang, I was beaten by like 18db so I was having to make the long trip home with my tail between the legs, well I get home and start taking everything apart and bam found my problem, seems I had my amps on high pass, and my amp was actually cancelling out my note, and thats what a the whole problem was. I will say I had no chance of winning or even advancing past the 1st elimination but man I would of liked to of seen what it would of done had it been running on all cylinders.
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Posts: 906 | From: Ozark, AL | Registered: Mar 2000
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Congrats, you just pulled an Oly!! I've got some sort of perpetual brainfart going on that makes me make the stupidest mistakes...
Ex: I spend 15 minutes on a math problem, walk up to the teacher, insisting there is a misprint in the awnser check. Once again, I copied down the wrong problem. It gets really hard to convince people I'm not a total dumbass sometimes.
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Posts: 323 | From: Great Falls, Montana | Registered: Feb 2000
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Yep, kinda been there before. The first time I installed my own amp I was running 4 gauge and had the battery hooked up but the fuse holder was empty. We got everything hooked up in textbook fashion and tried to power it up. Nothing. Nothing at all. We couldn't figure it out so we tore it all back apart before I finally realized what I had done. So, I put the fuse in and put everything back together and all went well. But, we learn from our mistakes and I guarantee I did from that one.
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I kinda made two yesterday. When testing my amp to see how it powered my friends subs, I blew the total crap out of one of the fuses. The amp has a weird labeling system, and I put the ground into the power slot, and BOOM. Then when hooking my friends amp back up, not being intentional or anything, I was putting a fuse back in, and my arm bumped the ground and power wires and they touched, and shot this huge spark cloud out at me. Then when I was redoing all my connections, both of my back speakers fell from the rear deck at the same time, almost drilled a power driver through one of my subs, and some other stupid stuff. Just a plain out bad day for me and car audio.
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