Quote Originally Posted by 'pjdell',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150944#post1 50944
Quote Originally Posted by 'psychoninja911',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1508 42#post150842
Don't know if I'd mix car audio with home audio... The pendancy of the Type R with the home theater stuff could cause the voice coil the scrape on the inside... I dono. I've heard stories about people doing this and it burns out their subs due to the car sub drawing more current.

I have 3 Alpine Type Rs. All 4 ohm. I used to have 2 4ohms and 1 2ohm... Wired the 2ohm to be 4 ohm I believe... And it ruined the speaker cuz it fired WAY harder than the 4 ohms cuz it was built different. And all this was done inside my care even...

That's just my 2 cents... :/
Yeah, well if i've done the math correctly, it won't hurt anything. I have a pretty weak amp, 200 watts rms on 2 ohms( that may be wrong, i can't remember exactly, but i know that i wired everything to match my amps RMS power) ... which is matched wiring my type rs dual voice coils...

I was worried at first that plugging an amp that is supposed to work off of a 12 volt car battery into a 120v wall socket would mess it up. But thats what the old computer power supply is for. If you take a red cable out of any one of those power cables that plugs into fans, hd, cd drive, etc... it gives out 12 volts... So you just hook that up to your amp and it is essentially the same thing as a car as far as i could tell.

There could easily be something i'm missing. I'm not an expert in this... in fact i know close to nothing about it. But i did a little research on it and it seemed reasonable.

Even so. I have no use for the sub in my car. And i've found that it is not really pleasant to play wow with it on, so i can just switch off the powersupply when i don't want to here huge bass which is cool and it makes it so i don't really use it a lot.
That sounds to me like a purposeful attempt at a major fire risk.

Also practically speaking it's easier to accidentally ruin a speaker by underpowering it then overpowering it. I know sounds like stupid logic but then again I'm not the one with a car sub/amp plugged into a computer power supply to play WoW.