Get Power Distribution Blocks from Crutchfield

[KK4AMI]

I'm trying to setup my Mobile in my truck. I managed to cleanly install 4 gauge wire from the Battery to my radio rack. I went to the Auto Parts Stores looking for a power distribution block that would handle up to 50 amps. They all gave me the stink eye and tried to sell me a cheap fuse block. Somebody turned (around 25 years old) me on to Crutchfield. Wow, those kids have to handle much more power in their souped up stereo systems. Crutchfield carries a full line of power distribution blocks that are almost pretty and can handle any mobile RF amp I will ever use.

[kf0rt]

Crutchfield's a great place to do business with, too.

[KK4AMI]

Crutchfield's a great place to do business with, too.

My days of putting stereo systems in cars ended about 20 years ago. I could get along with just an AM radio now. I guess the music has left my soul. Since I listen to talk radio most of the time, I just can't see listening to Rush with 400 watts and a giant bass speaker in my trunk.

[KG4CGC]

My days of putting stereo systems in cars ended about 20 years ago. I could get along with just an AM radio now. I guess the music has left my soul. Since I listen to talk radio most of the time, I just can't see listening to Rush with 400 watts and a giant bass speaker in my trunk.

Why not? It would be a good way to piss off those GD libs and receive the nod of approval from old coots everywhere, on every street corner.

[KJ3N]

Since I listen to talk radio most of the time, I just can't see listening to Rush with 400 watts and a giant bass speaker in my trunk.

I can't see listening to Rush in the first place, but that's another discussion. :neener: :lol:

[kf0rt]

My days of putting stereo systems in cars ended about 20 years ago. I could get along with just an AM radio now. I guess the music has left my soul. Since I listen to talk radio most of the time, I just can't see listening to Rush with 400 watts and a giant bass speaker in my trunk.

Well, I just can't see listening to Rush at any power. :lol:

Crutchfield sells a lot of other a/v stuff too. Bought my home theater receiver there several years ago.

[KK4AMI]

I can't see listening to Rush in the first place, but that's another discussion. :neener: :lol:

Just using him as an example. Listening to him can make me wince with as little as 500 milliwatts. We do have great local talk radio in C-ville. Unfortunately, they do carry some of the national crap like him.

[KK4AMI]

Why not? It would be a good way to piss off those GD libs and receive the nod of approval from old coots everywhere, on every street corner.

... and for miles away! :)

[ki4itv]

Pick up any oxygen free wire?
I hear that's the sht. ;)

[KK4AMI]

Pick up any oxygen free wire?
I hear that's the sht. ;)

Not at my age. I need all the oxygen I can get.

[KA9MOT]

My days of putting stereo systems in cars ended about 20 years ago. I could get along with just an AM radio now. I guess the music has left my soul. Since I listen to talk radio most of the time, I just can't see listening to Rush with 400 watts and a giant bass speaker in my trunk.

Ah shit... I got all excired because I thought you meant RUSH! :rock: Neil Peart is amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USfsPTwSinw&feature=colike

And after watching that video, I think maybe I'll get an Amp and a Sub so I can play RUSH real load and us old guys can remember when we were carefree and invincible!

[KG4NEL]

I'm trying to setup my Mobile in my truck. I managed to cleanly install 4 gauge wire from the Battery to my radio rack. I went to the Auto Parts Stores looking for a power distribution block that would handle up to 50 amps. They all gave me the stink eye and tried to sell me a cheap fuse block. Somebody turned (around 25 years old) me on to Crutchfield. Wow, those kids have to handle much more power in their souped up stereo systems. Crutchfield carries a full line of power distribution blocks that are almost pretty and can handle any mobile RF amp I will ever use.

4 gauge is small these days when it comes to power wires :)

I've also had good luck with these guys for 12VDC hardware, as well as audio cables: http://www.knukonceptz.com/index.cfm

[kf0rt]

For cables, go here: http://www.monoprice.com/

I once won a bet from a guy who didn't think you could buy a HDMI cable for under $35. :lol:

[KG4NEL]

The Monoprice RCA cables were great, but the engineers I worked with would have probably hanged me with their Displayport cables if we kept ordering them. I lost count of how many we had to return, the connectors would crack after two or three uses.

[n2ize]

Why not? It would be a good way to piss off those GD libs and receive the nod of approval from old coots everywhere, on every street corner.

Imagine driving through the heart of ultra liberal democrat left wing San Francisco with 400 watts of Rush blasting out. Imagine shaking and rattling all those liberal commie hippie beattniks and feminazi's and democrats hanging around Haight-Ashbury with 400+ solid watts of Rush Limbaugh !! Awesome !!! A Neocon's dream !!

[ad4mg]

Imagine driving through the heart of ultra liberal democrat left wing San Francisco with 400 watts of Rush blasting out. Imagine shaking and rattling all those liberal commie hippie beattniks and feminazi's and democrats hanging around Haight-Ashbury with 400+ solid watts of Rush Limbaugh !! Awesome !!! A Neocon's dream !!

400 watts is for wanna-be's. The Alpine system in my 4 door Bonneville is rated at 2700 watts PEP, 900 watts RMS (as noted on the amplifiers), at 4 ohms.

I'd prefer to drive through an affluent conservative neighborhood playing Linkin Park with the volume knob at 25 (max is 30). I could split their pointy little heads with that...


ETA: All purchased at Crutchfield's in Harrisonburg, Va when I was working at the (now) Miller-Coors brewery in nearby Elkton.

[ki4itv]

400 watts is for wanna-be's. The Alpine system in my 4 door Bonneville is rated at 2700 watts PEP, 900 watts RMS (as noted on the amplifiers), at 4 ohms.


Certifiably loud as F*** too.
One of the few places I've been, in recent memory, where I could discern the various resonant frequencies of my internal organs. :cool2::yes:

[kf0rt]

Yeah. But... ...in a Bonneville? :lol:

[ki4itv]

Yeah. But... ...in a Bonneville? :lol:
Obviously the THUMPERS with their 24" wheels never see this thing coming. :lol:

[kf0rt]

Obviously the THUMPERS with their 24" wheels never see this thing coming. :lol:

Well, now that's a good point. :yes:

[ad4mg]

Yeah. But... ...in a Bonneville? :lol:

It's a sleeper. :shock:

My wife calls it my mid-life crisis. i think she's grateful it isn't a motorcycle!

[kf0rt]

It's a sleeper. :shock:

My wife calls it my mid-life crisis. i think she's grateful it isn't a motorcycle!

Did you "get it for a song?"

Be honest, now... :lol:

[ad4mg]

Did you "get it for a song?"

Be honest, now... :lol:

Ha! I think I paid $1800 for it in 2006. It's been a pretty good ride, still in good shape. Here's a picture I took in '06 at the house we stayed in on Massanutten Mountain, just outside of Harrisonburg:

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Stealth isn't just for fighter jets... :)

[KG4NEL]

One of the first SPL competition vehicles I sat in was a Bonny, actually...

32 8" subwoofers, around 4kW at a quarter of an ohm or thereabouts, IIRC. Needless to say, it wasn't that stealthy :-D Capable of over 150dB at the driver's headrest.

[n2ize]

Why not? It would be a good way to piss off those GD libs and receive the nod of approval from old coots everywhere, on every street corner.

I prefer putting a shortwave receiver in my car so I can tune in to WBCQ and drive around listening to Brother Stair with the volume up full blast.

[w0aew]

Ha! I think I paid $1800 for it in 2006. It's been a pretty good ride, still in good shape. Here's a picture I took in '06 at the house we stayed in on Massanutten Mountain, just outside of Harrisonburg:

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Stealth isn't just for fighter jets... :)


Ohhhh. I thought you meant....

[K8YS]

Crutchfield is a good resource for mobile equipment, BUT... you will find the same thing a whole lot cheaper at Parts Express.

I did the same thing when I put a big amp in the van. Distribution blocks, fuses, fuse blocks, #4 copper from a field that used to install 220V stove connections, it was beautiful.