In my car I have a Jenson JP1500 Powerstation tower (with a 15" driver). It is actually from a home audio system, and it is rated at 8 ohms. However, I want to hook it up to a car amplifier. The power tower there is rated at 500 watts peak (although it doesn't say what RMS). I have a few questions: What wattage amp would be ideal, rated at 4 ohms, for this 8 ohm speaker? If I just hooked up the driver instead of the mids and tweeters with it, do you think it would handle more power safely? I have limited resources $ wise (who doesn't), so I don't want to waste money and get a 15" car audio speaker (I got the tower for $30). I was just hoping I could get some decent sounding bass out of it, right now it is hooked up to the head unit (which is 20 rms, 50 peak) and it sounds decent. I am really curious what ten times the power would sound like!! Any help would be much appreciated.
i have 8 -8 ohm speakers in my car it will sound fine i would jus put it to all pass not low or high pass thats really a voice speaker correct i ahve all that in mine and it is damn loud get like a 2 channel 800.4 rf that will work
The RMS would probably be around 175-200w RMS...so you would have to get an amp that puts out 400w RMS @4 ohms or 800w RMS @2 ohms. You could hook up the midrange and tweeter as they really wouldn't make a difference.
Not to mention how crappy this is going to look :P
Sorry kids...It's all I gots. If I wanted to drop 500 bucks on just getting my bass to sound decent, I would. However, I don't have that...I'm working with about 150 bucks to get probably a California Profile amp and a amp wiring kit with a .5 fared capacitor from Wal-Mart. I know this box is ridiculously large, I kind of like it like that. I just have a hatchback, and it's kind of fun to open it up and people are like "Uh...holy @#$#." I already have two 4" Infinity References in the front, and some 100 buck 6 by 9" Pioneers in the rear. Right now, however, I don't have the pioneers hooked up because those two wires are going to the RIDICULOUS box. I just want to free them up again to hook up to my Pioneers so that I have some highs in the back again. I don't really need the mids or tweeters of the POWER TOWER...so, I think I may hook the amp up directly to the woofer, with about 100 Hz lowpass filter. I'm a cheap basterd (or I'm poor), so I just can't afford to spend another 200 on a box and sub, and if I did it would STILL sound pretty shitty. SO...I just wanted some advice on the amount of wattage I should get for my amp.
STOP. I know exactly what wiring kit you're talking about at Walmart...it's the Scosche 4 ga kit with that tiny cap, right?
You don't need that heavy of wiring, and you most definitely do not need a cap(the cap boosts the price about $60). Get a wiring kit without the cap and use the money from the cap towards a better amp.
Thanks Jexx. Yeah, I probably will. I might still buy a heavy gauge wiring kit (no cap) in case in the future I somehow come into some money (Yes, I do work, but part time...min. wage...that sort of thing). That way I can still wire up a cap if I feel like it and can still put something crazy in there in the far, far, far off future (if my car lasts that long). So...anyways...thanks for the advice.
