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Today Todd will finally have bumps in the trunk

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todras

Pretty fly for a white guy *cowbell*
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It's only taken about 10 years since I've had some bass. LOL! Nothing special. I have a Pioneer deck and Pioneer 6x8's in the doors. Adding this to the trunk. Think I'll paint the grill T-Red to match the car.
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I had this amp in my old Mustang. Yea I think I bought this amp in 1994.:shocked: It will still fit my needs though. Just wanted a little extra omph.

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I was 9 and rocking a :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:in BMX bike when you bought that amp you old bastard
 
Todd,

Don't feel bad.... I still have 2 of the 3 Pioneer amps I bought in 1994 for my SQ competition car. I used them until 2001 when the current system was put in. Some day they may get put in something else.
 
Damn whipper snappers. After installing this I see how you guys get into this. I need a different amp for sure. I'm pretty low on the audio IQ scale. Was taught a little today. This 4 chan amp should be used for my front 4 of course and I need a designated amp for the sub. I think I'm going to ditch it in favor of a smaller mono amp that just powers the sub. Using one channel out of 4 to power a sub is silly. It sound pretty good for what I have into it though which is peanuts.
 
todras said:
I did think about that but how safe is it?
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I don't recall anything about it being not safe, I just don't think it's possible. I'd direct you to some very old posts, but I was a retarded n00b who knew nothing so I don't feel like embarassing myself.
 
The audio gear collecting dust in my basement makes me cringe every now and then. 2 NAK amps (from the SVT), 2 a/d/s amps (NIB)and a pair of a/d/s component speakers(NIB).

Someday...
 
ya thats what i meant when i said to bridge them!

if you look at the speaker connections below them there might be a line conecting 2 different outputs, use those to bridge it.

and yes it will be fine, couldnt find any manuals for that targa model.
 
I don't have an easy way to bridge 2 channels. Do I just rig speaker wire to 2? I don't see how it could damage the amp. Isn't the amp pushing the speaker? Can an amp over work when do by using 2 channels?
 
todras said:
I don't have an easy way to bridge 2 channels. Do I just rig speaker wire to 2? I don't see how it could damage the amp. Isn't the amp pushing the speaker? Can an amp over work when do by using 2 channels?
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normally you use the plus terminal and a negative terminal of two channels and that bridges the channels.

now on a 4 channel amp I don't know if I would do that since only half of the amp is being used and therefore would be unbalanced. but if it is set up to have basically two halves, ie 2 gain controlls then it should be fine.

i have a 4 channel amps for my 2 subs, and it works well. in my other car I have the sub bridged to a 2 channel amp.
 
I'm going to get a different amp. Do not want to try to bridge the one I have a fry a channel. Don't think it's meant for it. I need a sub amp.
 
could you safely bridge a 4 channel by running a jumper wire from the middle channels to the outside channels, then bridge the outside channels as if it were a 2-channel amp?


Chan1..Chan2..Chan3.Chan4
|+....- ||+....-||+....-||+....-|
|......|__|.....|__|....|__|.... |
|......................................|
|..................................... |
______ + SUBWOOFER - ____
 
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Ray said:
could you safely bridge a 4 channel by running a jumper wire from the middle channels to the outside channels, then bridge the outside channels as if it were a 2-channel amp?


Chan1..Chan2..Chan3.Chan4
|+....- ||+....-||+....-||+....-|
|......|__|.....|__|....|__|.... |
|......................................|
|..................................... |
______ + SUBWOOFER - ____
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Not usually.

The normal construction for a four channel amp is that it is two 2-channel amps in a single chassis. With this design it is possible (in most cases) to bridge channels 1 and 2 to make a single output, and also bridge channels 3 and 4 to make a single output. But channels 1 and 2 don't typically want anything to do with channels 3 or 4 for bridging purposes.
 
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