Friday, April 18, 2008

Woofer Testing (metal pancakes)

So, the myth is that you can power a sub using a PC power supply. Well... let's see if I can electrocute myself.

I don't want to go into too many details but basically you have to strip an inch or so off of all yellow and black wires and connect them together (not all together! yellow wires together as a bundle, then do the same with black).

Obviously (to some of us), the 12 volt (yellow bundle) will connect to the 12 volt on the amp and the black bundle (ground wires) will connect to the ground on the amp. Now that that fun is over, we get to wake this lazy amp up. In order to do this, you have to cut the green wire that goes into the 24 pin connector (big plug that connects to your motherboard) and connect it with one of the adjacent big thick black wires on the same connector. Now, as you can see below, put a jumper wire from the remote on the amp to the 12 volt and once you turn on your power supply(s) your amp should either go up in a blaze of glory, smell like fresh toast or be ready to beat some tracks. Hopefully the latter. Be careful! Don't use my brief tutorial as a guide because their are many other things you must take into consideration or you will be killing parts right and left. I don't want to be responsible for wasting people's money, unless it's at a bar.


Everything seemed to have worked out perfect. Dance Party!


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