bigger wire will not hinder it, it will actually improve pperformance although its not enough to notice (due to lower resistance of larger wires).

your power would be much better used bridging to the componenets and running rear fill off the deck (or not at all) than running the amp 5 channel.

 

why? why do i need to bridge to the components? I was told that bridging isn't a good idea. Wrong?

also, when i run the wires for the speakers its ok to be on the same side as the amp power wire right? just not the rca's on the same side.

 

anybody?

 

you would bridge to get more power. i'm not sure why anybody would say not to.

 

well i'm trying to figure out why I would want to bridge to the tweeters when I could use that power on the bigger speakers in the rear...

 

you wouldnt be bridging to the tweeters but bridging to the front components. the answer is this: sound is supposed to come from in front of you (think concert). having more power to your front speakers will give you more/better sound than having lower power to all 4. rear fill is mostly for ambiance and therefore does not require much power (a lot of people dont run it at all). it goes into imaging and i could recite a bunch of stuff but honestly i don't know a whole lot about it other than its goal is to recreate the sound as if you were watching a live performance. what i do know is you want to have a good amount of clean power going to your front components.

 

ok that does make sense. So bridge to the front and run the rear of the headunit. Gotta figure out how to wire that on the avic now.

 

its fairly simple. just run speaker wires from the head unit harness to the rear speakers, or you could prpbably get away with the factory wiring and just wire it up through the car harness. then run the front channel rcas to the amp. you might need to split the rcas at the amp. check out the owners manual for 3 channel operation.

 

well i have enough wire to run new stuff to the speakers. even tho it's massive. But I'll have to see if I have a manual for the kicker that explains how to bridge them.

 

The truth^

 

well that means I got an extra rca cable now if I'm only running the sub and the front speakers. Can I run the 4 channel rca to the speakers and the subs? that's ok right? And I guess I'll try to bridge them. I didn't plan on it but I guess I can.

 

yes you can. do it!

 

so I was looking at all my stuff. You guys are saying to run the amp bridged but can I still run the sub at any ohm? Do I need to adjust the amp for certain ohms?

 

4 ohms (bridged): 130 watts x 2 chan. + 420 watts x 1 chan. (2 ohms sub channel, 210 watts @ 4 ohms)

so you want to wire your subs at 2 ohms for max power.

 

Well I can't run them bridged then. The rainbows run at 2 ohms.

 

New question. How do I wire these x-overs in? I'm trying to figure out the wiring from the amp to the x-over to the speakers. Am I running the tweeters off the amp 1 spot and the woofers off the amp 2? Or is that going to overpower the tweeters? How do I got about this? There is a woofer input, tweeter input, tweeter out and woofer out. Where do the wires come and go?

 

found something that said to split the wires to the x-overs. Does that mean wires for each thing or take the power wire and literally split the strands evenly and route them to the w+ and the tw+?

 

Hi Guys i need help with something...

i just installed a new CD Player to my 98 Maxima and now all the light for my fual guage speed and everything is not working. Does anyone know what could i have done wrong i followed the instruction shown below

http://www.installdr.com/InstallDocs...PDF/647021.pdf

Now if you go on page 8 for wireharness (second one) i removed "H" and "L" wires but it say do not use in the instruction. could those wires have caused the light to go out in my car?

Please let me know.

Thanks in advance

 

the rainbows run at two ohms when you have all four drivers connected. since you only bought the to you can run them 4 ohm. The other drivers being connected to the radio instead of your amplifier will not affect your ohm load here. so the amp will see 4 ohms on each( Tweet and Mid)

as well his xovers are biampable, you can make adjustment as stated and do just the mids bridged though

 

you should have a pm I sent when i came from the field. did you get this done?

 

yeah everything is installed. The daytons were blown but I got the rest in. I had issues with the left side of amp 1 but just put the speakers on left side of amp 2 for now. Might be a bad rca connection. Not sure.

 

What Avic did you go with? Im looking into the z3 and also want to do the install myself. How is the fitment of the Avic? Any gaps/pics? (I also have a 4h gen) Will also be replacing to front speakers with components (not sure what type yet) along with an amp (will mount under the passenger seat) for just for the fronts. Will do rears at a later time but will run the wire back to the trunk so when Im ready all I have to do is wire everything in. Any info will help . If you can send me a pic of the AVIC installed it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

blown? i just got them from parag?shoot, well send me your paypal, ill send you some loot back on them as it didnt go as planned bro. send it to my email. cant.get.ryte@gmail.com

 

its cool man I don't know what the problem was so I dont want to make you pay me back.

 

hello i got a 2000 nissan maxima and i cant seem to find a spot to drill a hole for my poer cable 4 my amp any suggestions,,,greatly apreciated

 

I had a "microfuse" blow out on my pioneer.. i lost preouts completely.. i think mine is a DEH-M7800MP and its just grounded via the metal cage... :P