I have an 84 Thunderbird 3.8. I've got a pretty powerful system with an Alpine CDA-9805 head unit, and old Craig Powerply(or play) 500 watt amp and 3 Jensen 10" subs in the trunk. I had the deck in my 86 Stang and in both rides it seems like the deck cant push the speakers very well. I want to be able to turn the volume up louder than 12 (even though its pretty loud) sometimes, but when the bass gets either to low or too high, the deck shuts itself off. I know it shuts off so it doesnt fry the thing but is there anything i can do to put more volume into my system without the deck turning off and possibly damaging itself? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I finally have a nice, powerful system but want to play it louder to show off a bit.
Thanks
Sneado
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Import Driver---Twas last friday night and caught at the light, Was a domestic V8 and no cops in sight, I will try, I will try, I will try with this small motor, To beat this damn Mustang, even with its juiced motor, As the light goes green and I pull like no joke, The Mustang erupts in clouds of tire smoke, Now Smasher, now Rev-ver, now Stroker, now Blitzin, These are the names of my four VTEC pistons, Racing ahead I'm the star of the action, But I know I'm in trouble when V8 gets traction, Grabbing second, I hear the RPM's sing, My mirror is blocked by my shopping kart wing, I now hear the roar of the big monster gaining, All I can do is keep my four-banger straining, In a second, the shock wave hits with a blast, And my stickers go flying now a thing of the past, Don't bother with third, cause now it's too late,
Just try to act cool, like you can even relate, Looking up at the taillights as they get smaller, The driver backs off just to give me a holler, "You can't win them all," he says in fling, "You may not win any, in that silly thing," I smiled and revved as he pulled out of sight, With my new mods tomorrow…it will be a better night.
The deck is going into thermal shutdown from generating to much heat on the transistors. You can either put a fan on it for cooling, or try a larger/better ground. The factory harness if you are using it is good enough for the factory deck which usually have seperate amplifiers so they dont generate as much heat or pull alot of amperage. I would try a bigger ground directly to the battery first that seems to cure alot of problems as far as overheating. Behind the dash does not get alot of airflow and that is another issue as well thats why I said try a fan.
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Thanks for the info. The deck does have a fan but I'm not positive if it runs. Ive never noticed it on when fiddling with it after its run, if its not running is there an easy way to get it working again? And also when it seems that the deck is pulling a lot of power the buttons dim down quite a bit. Is that from too much heat? It does it even right after the deck comes on.
Thanks again,
Sneado
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Import Driver---Twas last friday night and caught at the light, Was a domestic V8 and no cops in sight, I will try, I will try, I will try with this small motor, To beat this damn Mustang, even with its juiced motor, As the light goes green and I pull like no joke, The Mustang erupts in clouds of tire smoke, Now Smasher, now Rev-ver, now Stroker, now Blitzin, These are the names of my four VTEC pistons, Racing ahead I'm the star of the action, But I know I'm in trouble when V8 gets traction, Grabbing second, I hear the RPM's sing, My mirror is blocked by my shopping kart wing, I now hear the roar of the big monster gaining, All I can do is keep my four-banger straining, In a second, the shock wave hits with a blast, And my stickers go flying now a thing of the past, Don't bother with third, cause now it's too late,
Just try to act cool, like you can even relate, Looking up at the taillights as they get smaller, The driver backs off just to give me a holler, "You can't win them all," he says in fling, "You may not win any, in that silly thing," I smiled and revved as he pulled out of sight, With my new mods tomorrow…it will be a better night.
Im probably going to get a cap in the near future but I dont see how that would help the deck from draining/dimming. Has anyone else had the same or close to the same problem with Alpine or other companies?
Thanks
Sneado
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Import Driver---Twas last friday night and caught at the light, Was a domestic V8 and no cops in sight, I will try, I will try, I will try with this small motor, To beat this damn Mustang, even with its juiced motor, As the light goes green and I pull like no joke, The Mustang erupts in clouds of tire smoke, Now Smasher, now Rev-ver, now Stroker, now Blitzin, These are the names of my four VTEC pistons, Racing ahead I'm the star of the action, But I know I'm in trouble when V8 gets traction, Grabbing second, I hear the RPM's sing, My mirror is blocked by my shopping kart wing, I now hear the roar of the big monster gaining, All I can do is keep my four-banger straining, In a second, the shock wave hits with a blast, And my stickers go flying now a thing of the past, Don't bother with third, cause now it's too late,
Just try to act cool, like you can even relate, Looking up at the taillights as they get smaller, The driver backs off just to give me a holler, "You can't win them all," he says in fling, "You may not win any, in that silly thing," I smiled and revved as he pulled out of sight, With my new mods tomorrow…it will be a better night.
I was expirimenting with some new techniques and I might have figured it out. Could running the stock front speakers in my car be restricting the power or doing something to the deck because I switched all the power to my rear speakers which can handel up to 75 watts and I was able to put out more power without too much drain. Could that have been the problem?
Thanks
Sneado
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Import Driver---Twas last friday night and caught at the light, Was a domestic V8 and no cops in sight, I will try, I will try, I will try with this small motor, To beat this damn Mustang, even with its juiced motor, As the light goes green and I pull like no joke, The Mustang erupts in clouds of tire smoke, Now Smasher, now Rev-ver, now Stroker, now Blitzin, These are the names of my four VTEC pistons, Racing ahead I'm the star of the action, But I know I'm in trouble when V8 gets traction, Grabbing second, I hear the RPM's sing, My mirror is blocked by my shopping kart wing, I now hear the roar of the big monster gaining, All I can do is keep my four-banger straining, In a second, the shock wave hits with a blast, And my stickers go flying now a thing of the past, Don't bother with third, cause now it's too late,
Just try to act cool, like you can even relate, Looking up at the taillights as they get smaller, The driver backs off just to give me a holler, "You can't win them all," he says in fling, "You may not win any, in that silly thing," I smiled and revved as he pulled out of sight, With my new mods tomorrow…it will be a better night.
Your little amp in that deck does NOT need a capacitor, your sub amp may need one, but there is no way that the amp in the deck does. Anyway, yeah if your deck is inthermal dissarray, buttons will dim, lights will flash or go out...Lots can happen. If it has an internal fan, and its not working I would take it somwhere and see if theyll fix, dont risk screwing it up yourself as it will be very difficult to not ruin it. If it is not goin into thermal shutdown though, you need a new, more powerful deck, or an amp for your component speakers.
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I know that the deck doesnt need a cap. Ive never heard of one needing one. I think that my problem though is that it was trying to squeeze too much power to the front speakers which are too small. Ever since Ive switched all my power to my rear speakers, it hasnt had any problems so far.
Thanks for the feedback
Sneado
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Import Driver---Twas last friday night and caught at the light, Was a domestic V8 and no cops in sight, I will try, I will try, I will try with this small motor, To beat this damn Mustang, even with its juiced motor, As the light goes green and I pull like no joke, The Mustang erupts in clouds of tire smoke, Now Smasher, now Rev-ver, now Stroker, now Blitzin, These are the names of my four VTEC pistons, Racing ahead I'm the star of the action, But I know I'm in trouble when V8 gets traction, Grabbing second, I hear the RPM's sing, My mirror is blocked by my shopping kart wing, I now hear the roar of the big monster gaining, All I can do is keep my four-banger straining, In a second, the shock wave hits with a blast, And my stickers go flying now a thing of the past, Don't bother with third, cause now it's too late,
Just try to act cool, like you can even relate, Looking up at the taillights as they get smaller, The driver backs off just to give me a holler, "You can't win them all," he says in fling, "You may not win any, in that silly thing," I smiled and revved as he pulled out of sight, With my new mods tomorrow…it will be a better night.
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