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Thread: Light dim |
    
Bronze Member Username: Vaio
Post Number: 48
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 11:21 pm: |
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Light dim what are some ways to stop the dimming without get an Alternator are a Cap?
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Silver Member Username: Fishy
TamaracFt.Laud,
FL
USA
Post Number: 689
Registered: Sep-04
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| Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 11:25 pm: |
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Turn it down?
-Fishy |
Silver Member Username: Fishy
TamaracFt.Laud,
FL
USA
Post Number: 690
Registered: Sep-04
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| Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 11:27 pm: |
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or maybe just turn off the light.
You could try running heavier gauge wire from your alternator to battery, your battery to ground, and your battery to amp(s).
Might help a lil.
-Fishy |
Nick_sq Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 12:43 am: |
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You are using power, live with it...your lights are gonna dim a bit, unless you get a cap or a stronger altenator. Its no big deal i had a clarion amp (apx400.2) that only put out 100x2 RMS @ 4 ohm and it dimmmed my lights like crazy!...that was a power hungry amp with a 50 A fuse in it (thats probly why it got so hot at reasonable loads) Just try to ignore it unless its really bad. |
Gold Member Username: Glasswolf
NorthWest,
Michigan
USA
Post Number: 7513
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 10:48 am: |
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if the lights are dimming then your amplifier is clipping. If the amp is clipping, you're sending DC voltage to the speakers and damaging them.
the amps need current. this means you need a larger alternator, and proper gauge power cable for alt to batt, batt to ground, and batt to amps.
capacitors won't help.
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