Audio System Overhaul

[Cruising68]

Unfortunately it’s hard to find good help. That’s the reason I usually do my own work. Sucks to be limited in what you can do yourself. Good luck cleaning it all up.


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[BrooseDaMoose]

I took a lot of pictures and went back to the shop. Bryan, the owner, was genuinely suprized when he saw them. He told me to bring him the car and he would clean it all up himself and install the RUX-C810 controller for the DSP. I had already cleaned it all up so I told him I was good. He tried to call the guy who he had do the work but no answer, shocker! On the positive side, he said that when I am ready to run the new wires to the doors, so I can go full active, to bring in the vehicle and he would help me do it the right way instead of drilling through the connector. While I have the drivers side panels all pulled to run the cable for the controller, I want to run the speaker wire as far as the connector. I have about 50'-75' of Stinger 14 ga wire. This should be sufficient for the tweeter, right?

 

[Cruising68]

I took a lot of pictures and went back to the shop. Bryan, the owner, was genuinely suprized when he saw them. He told me to bring him the car and he would clean it all up himself and install the RUX-C810 controller for the DSP. I had already cleaned it all up so I told him I was good. He tried to call the guy who he had do the work but no answer, shocker! On the positive side, he said that when I am ready to run the new wires to the doors, so I can go full active, to bring in the vehicle and he would help me do it the right way instead of drilling through the connector. While I have the drivers side panels all pulled to run the cable for the controller, I want to run the speaker wire as far as the connector. I have about 50'-75' of Stinger 14 ga wire. This should be sufficient for the tweeter, right?

Plenty thick wire.


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[banniar]

I took a lot of pictures and went back to the shop. Bryan, the owner, was genuinely suprized when he saw them. He told me to bring him the car and he would clean it all up himself and install the RUX-C810 controller for the DSP. I had already cleaned it all up so I told him I was good. He tried to call the guy who he had do the work but no answer, shocker! On the positive side, he said that when I am ready to run the new wires to the doors, so I can go full active, to bring in the vehicle and he would help me do it the right way instead of drilling through the connector. While I have the drivers side panels all pulled to run the cable for the controller, I want to run the speaker wire as far as the connector. I have about 50'-75' of Stinger 14 ga wire. This should be sufficient for the tweeter, right?

When I wired my doors, I did the math on power loss of various gauge wires assuming 4 ohm speakers at 100 watts. Using typical resistance values over 25 feet of wire (more than required from the rear of the vehicle to either front door), I found the following:

12 gauge: 1.01 w
14 gauge: 2.03 w
16 gauge: 2.56 w

Considering use of OFC wire only reduces power loss, it was a no-brainer for me to select 16 gauge for relative ease of installation, as the < 1.5 watt difference at full power would hardly register on an SPL meter. This will hold true as you scale up in power. You will run into an issue with heat in the wire at higher power, but if this is to be used only for mid/tweet, I doubt you'd be interested in listening without hearing protection at that point.