Old skool amps
13-07-2015, 09:46 AM
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nope and google image search didnt bring one up either
13-07-2015, 06:15 PM
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I remember the purple mosfet Amps. The guy I was apprentice to had a mk3 xr3i with two 12" subs in separate boxes and two 400w mosfet amps, was pretty bloody loud for 1996!!
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13-07-2015, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Glenn_
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13-07-2015, 06:51 PM
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14-07-2015, 08:49 AM
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Mosfet amps - the Motorworld store favourites!
I currently have an oldskool Rockford Fosgate amp in the car...ready to be wired in (new set up using old but trusty amp)
I currently have an oldskool Rockford Fosgate amp in the car...ready to be wired in (new set up using old but trusty amp)
14-07-2015, 09:14 AM
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PG M series rocked back in the day...alongside Rockford, Alpine V12, Genesis, even Pro Plus were big back then!
These days, PG is pretty over priced for their performance although their Elite range looks extremely impressive but is way too expensive even at dealer cost!
RF produce some good stuff but are no where near as good as they were in the 90s, products are now cheaply produced in a lot of cases IMO and their specs aren't anything to write home about.
Alpine are just too mainstream and again, you can get so much more for your money
Pro Plus are out the game
Genesis, Gordon shut the operation down but it was started up by another guy in the last year or two.
Talking about Alpine V12...heres an old install we did;
These days, PG is pretty over priced for their performance although their Elite range looks extremely impressive but is way too expensive even at dealer cost!
RF produce some good stuff but are no where near as good as they were in the 90s, products are now cheaply produced in a lot of cases IMO and their specs aren't anything to write home about.
Alpine are just too mainstream and again, you can get so much more for your money
Pro Plus are out the game
Genesis, Gordon shut the operation down but it was started up by another guy in the last year or two.
Talking about Alpine V12...heres an old install we did;
14-07-2015, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by salsheikh
Mosfet amps - the Motorworld store favourites!
I currently have an oldskool Rockford Fosgate amp in the car...ready to be wired in (new set up using old but trusty amp)
I currently have an oldskool Rockford Fosgate amp in the car...ready to be wired in (new set up using old but trusty amp)
14-07-2015, 10:01 AM
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Question for you guys, why is that that the cables we use are so thick that the connections on the amps are not made to cope? look at the alpine pics above, no way could that take thicker cable than shown or am i doing something wrong? The spade connectors used are too big to insert into the gap.
anything more than a 12AWG cable and your buggered.
I recently purchased some 0AWG cable (was planning on a big build) and then realised the amps could take the cable size so sold it and my dreams of the big build were dashed.
Going to use some 8AWG cable and have a normal 1 amp 1 sub combo
anything more than a 12AWG cable and your buggered.
I recently purchased some 0AWG cable (was planning on a big build) and then realised the amps could take the cable size so sold it and my dreams of the big build were dashed.
Going to use some 8AWG cable and have a normal 1 amp 1 sub combo
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14-07-2015, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Karl @ FPT
What's funny about those MOSFET amps is that MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) is just the type of transistor used in the amp and pretty much all amps! So they really have no brand name as such, they are just describing themselves! lol
14-07-2015, 06:44 PM
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i remember the purple speaker eaters, the mosfet ones, les smiths used to sell em.
i built a few demo cars over the years, still got most of my stuff albeit slightly higher grade than mosfet......
i built a few demo cars over the years, still got most of my stuff albeit slightly higher grade than mosfet......
14-07-2015, 09:12 PM
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Question for you guys, why is that that the cables we use are so thick that the connections on the amps are not made to cope? look at the alpine pics above, no way could that take thicker cable than shown or am i doing something wrong? The spade connectors used are too big to insert into the gap.
anything more than a 12AWG cable and your buggered.
I recently purchased some 0AWG cable (was planning on a big build) and then realised the amps could take the cable size so sold it and my dreams of the big build were dashed.
Going to use some 8AWG cable and have a normal 1 amp 1 sub combo
anything more than a 12AWG cable and your buggered.
I recently purchased some 0AWG cable (was planning on a big build) and then realised the amps could take the cable size so sold it and my dreams of the big build were dashed.
Going to use some 8AWG cable and have a normal 1 amp 1 sub combo
It's about resistance over a long run. I run 0awg from the battery to the boot, then 2 separate short runs of 4awg from a dissy block to my amps.
Unless you are running very powerful amps 0awg is probably overkill.