Car audio in canadian winters???

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Sep 9, 2005 | 02:21 PM

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fuzzai

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Originally posted by Dukk:
Ok - if you have cold air and introduce dry heat to it (like from an amp) there will be no condensation. Condensation happens when you have warm moist air (like out of your pie hole) and it gets cooled down.

how come i get watter on TOP of my alpine 1507 then in the winter? its in a trunk, and i don't know about INSIDE but the outside gets all wattery....maybe i should leave the seat folded down?

Sep 9, 2005 | 05:18 PM

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pinhead

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Originally posted by Dukk:
(like out of your pie hole)

i heard you can now get plugs to fill those annoying holes

[ September 09, 2005, 06:20 PM: Message edited by: pinhead ]

Sep 9, 2005 | 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by pinhead:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Dukk:
(like out of your pie hole)

i heard you can now get plugs to fill those annoying holes [/QUOTE]I understand that you have quite a collection.

Sep 9, 2005 | 06:16 PM

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In twenty years i have never had a rusty amp or any problems playing my system reasonably loud all year. The only thing I have noticed is the head units tend to take 30 seconds to warm up and display correctly in sub -20 c temps. If there is extra wear and tear, it's probably very little and may show up 5-10 years later...which for me is not a problem as I usually change everything long before that time period ends.

Sep 10, 2005 | 01:24 AM

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Paul Niwranski

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Originally posted by fuzzai:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Dukk:
Ok - if you have cold air and introduce dry heat to it (like from an amp) there will be no condensation. Condensation happens when you have warm moist air (like out of your pie hole) and it gets cooled down.

how come i get watter on TOP of my alpine 1507 then in the winter? its in a trunk, and i don't know about INSIDE but the outside gets all wattery....maybe i should leave the seat folded down? [/QUOTE]I would suspect you have a leaky trunk. What happens is your car warms up and some of the moisture evaporates, increasing the humidity of your car/trunk. After you shut everything down, compared to the rest of your trunk, the amp is both going to cool down the fastest, causing condensation, plus whatever moisture that does drop out of the air as it cools down will be more noticible on something like a non porous metal surface than something like your trunk carpet.

This is physics man, not me making up theory.

Sep 10, 2005 | 01:36 AM

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fuzzai

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Ah thanks
i shall look at the seal.

Sep 11, 2005 | 07:06 AM

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Ray

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I have NEVER had a problem either and I have had different systems for the last 13 years.I also start it slow and warm it up but to this day NEVER had rust,water or even damage(on the sub)I find my system hits HARDER in the winter.