Dumbest thing you've ever done in an install?
03-17-2011, 09:01 PM
#11
Had my 8 cube box and 2 loose 12's on my workbench, nudged box and knocked one of them 4 feet to the concrete. Gasping I picked it off the ground and the cone would'nt move in or out. A few days go by before I investigate further. I took a rubber mallet and knocked my mis-aligned pole piece back into position. Cone moves in and out, no rub, then I emptied the contents of a selfmixing epoxy onto my shattered motor. Needless to say, that sub is still pounding.
Anyways.. One of the things that just really just made me feel like an utter moron was recent.. Touching up the solder on one of my speaker connections with a blow torch... I had it on really low and I was just rolling blue flame over it... Unfortunately apparently 6x9 speaker surrounds are subject to heat build-up as its mounted to fire up... Set the surround on fire. xD Melted a nice hole in it. Still bumps fine with no distortion.
The other time was in a moment of impatience I passed a speaker over the roof of my car... Forgetting that it's got a magnet on it .. Needless to say it slid a nice gouge across the entire roof of my car. I felt pretty special that day too.
03-18-2011, 04:32 PM
#13
04-20-2011, 09:01 AM
#16
0 Watt CAFz'r
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 8
paid 10,000 for a paint job and let the body shop wire the door poppers while there doing the body work, came home poped the doors car lit up like the 4th of july and almost burn;t down my house with the truck when the gas tank blew.
had 60,000 into it. just can't let it go
had 60,000 into it. just can't let it go
04-20-2011, 09:17 AM
#17
Had a D'oh moment back in early nineties, but never figured it would cause a problem with the amp though. I had an alpine deck ( yeah it was a shaft mount ) with no RCAs out. So I pick up a nice little Alpine EQ with both RCA and speaker level inputs with 3 sets of RCAs out and the built in X-over and level control for the sub. Perfect now I can hook up my 2ch and sub amp with RCAs. The problem arose after hooking up the speaker wires from the deck to the EQ I mounted the EQ under the dash. THEN ran the RCAs and had to hook them up by reaching around behind and of course the 2ch amp got plugged into the RCA input which was somehow directly connected to the speaker level inputs. Amp was toast.
04-20-2011, 12:23 PM
#19
paid 10,000 for a paint job and let the body shop wire the door poppers while there doing the body work, came home poped the doors car lit up like the 4th of july and almost burn;t down my house with the truck when the gas tank blew.
had 60,000 into it. just can't let it go
had 60,000 into it. just can't let it go
