Earthquake Survival Kits

3 Comments

1. Bluecjay
   Posted November 19, 2010 at 12:53 am | Permalink

   It isn't just a "Mormon" thing… Many earthquake experts here in California recommend 3 – 6 months. But mostly 72 hours kits!

2. JMann
   Posted November 20, 2010 at 4:02 am | Permalink

   1 – It should sound okay.

   2 – Wired to 1 ohm, that amp will be more than sufficient. It's good quality and in all of my testing it can attain it's rated wattage without clipping.

   3 – You probably don;t need 200 ft. of speaker wire. 100 will probably be enough. If you use a harness adapter for the head unit, you may not need more than a few feet.

   4 – The box should be good. Those subs work pretty well in a smaller, high tuned enclosure.

   5 – It looks like you have the bulk of the necessities for the amp install. You'll probably need a few ods and ends, screws and such.

   6 – From the looks of it, you'll have to hook the mids and highs to the head unit. You would need a seperate, 4 channel amp to power them any other way.

   7 – Yes, you can wire 2 dual 4 ohm subs to a one ohm load. Wire the coils and the subs together in parallel. Use option 1 from this link.

   All in all. The only thing that I would change in the set up would be the head unit. The legacy units aren't very good quality. They have a tendency of crapping out after a few months. In my opinion, you would be much happier with a different unit. Look for a Clarion, Alpine, or Eclipse that fits your price range.

3. nyoandricky
   Posted December 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

   those subs r real good they hold there own for spl comp. as far as the amp you probably want to change the brand cause a long time ago when i first started to get into audio i got the riot series and they sucked. if money is a factor i would go with hifonics 2000rms 1 ohm on ebay for about 250. as far as the other post about RF p3 they really suck they dont even last 5 min with 1000 watts thrown at them
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