high level input
Printed From: the12volt.com
Forum Name: General Discussion
Forum Discription: General Mobile Electronics Questions and Answers
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=6738
Printed Date: July 05, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Topic: high level input
Posted By: mustangadam
Subject: high level input
Date Posted: December 15, 2002 at 3:55 PM
I have a couple of amps that have high level input jacks, but no connector for the jack. I am installing one of these amps for a friend with an old head unit, and he doesn't have pre-amp outs. Where can I find the 4-pin, square plastic connectors to plug into the amp's high level input? Thanks ------------- Adam Donald Flournoy
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
7E7 "Dreamliner" Project
Replies:
Posted By: webguy
Date Posted: December 15, 2002 at 4:06 PM
Try your local installer's junk box, if they will let you dig around in it.
Another thing I've done (God, I hate Mickey Mouse) is to use some butt connectors pushed over the terminals (if they are male prongs on the amp)
Just a thought......Good Luck
------------- Clean tools = Clean work!
Posted By: bberman1
Date Posted: December 15, 2002 at 7:45 PM
Another option is to buy a High to Low converter than you can use the RCA inputs on your amp better than halfassing it no offence webguy
Posted By: webguy
Date Posted: December 15, 2002 at 8:35 PM
None taken! I was in the middle of administering my other website, wasn't thinking the answer all the way through. Nice follow-thru, bberman1....... Earlier, I was trying to get back to this post to let "mustangadam" know about this PAC accessory at: https://www.go2pac.com/products/loc.htm, and somehow couldn't find it. But here we go...... Again, I am far from professing to have all the right moves. (I hate to Mickey Mouse!) ------------- Clean tools = Clean work!
Posted By: crroush
Date Posted: December 15, 2002 at 9:49 PM
Yes, if you do not have the correct plug for the amplifier it is a lot easier to install it with a high-low level converter. I would recommend doing it that way any way, simply because you would have to run back to the amplifier X number of sets of inputs based on how man channels you have, so thats a lot of speaker wire, and a lot of mess to deal with, plus a lot of amplifiers high-low converters that are onboard usually are piss-poor design, and the actual components are cheap that they use, (this depends a lot on who made the amp, and the care they took into making a good high-low level onboard converter). So for about 20 buxs you can get a decent high-low, actually you could even buy a cheaper brand that has gain adjustments and it will probably be just as good for your likes. Typically will high-low converters, if you are just running a sub, you can use a cheaper one, since most of your "loss" or added distortion/attenuation occurs at the higher end of the spectrum, and for lower frequency stuff simply slap on your low pass filter then you are set!!! hope that helps some what! Craig
Posted By: bberman1
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 11:50 AM
webguy what is the url on your site if you don’t mind me asking?
Posted By: webguy
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 12:29 PM
bberman1, I haven't any 12volt related websites. I administrate a site for a company at: https://www.globalnetworktradingcompany.com, and I have a consumer advocate site that I created earlier this year in response to an online company's deceptive advertising methods (which they tried, unsuccessfully, to sue me for. I was well within my First Amendment Rights, plus I could back up everything with proof..www.cjfa.org) and a local website that I recently am taking a stab at, which is a Dining Directory for our local area's independently owned restaurants...www.avdining.com But, as I've stated, I am seriously considering returning to the 12 Volt industry, probably after the first of the New Year. I have had a lot of fond (and not so fond) memories. ------------- Clean tools = Clean work!
Posted By: bberman1
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 2:36 PM
Visited your site www.cjfa.org I congratulate you on going after those people and or businesses that are out there to screw you and take your money. We need more people out there that are willing to go after companies like you do instead of complaining about them. But I see you live out in the Palmdale area I’m in the San Fernando Valley in Sherman Oaks.
Posted By: webguy
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 4:47 PM
Well, howdy neighbor! Are guy's getting as much rain as we are right now. It finally calmed down a bit. But considering this forum is viewed the world round, the distance is nothing. I was gone for a few hours. We were having power surges from the storm, so I shut down for a while. I will probably run into you sooner or later, because I have pretty much made up my mind about coing back to the biz. Later.....Robert ------------- Clean tools = Clean work!
Posted By: bberman1
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 6:28 PM
Rain just let up I haven’t seen this much flooding in my neighborhood in a few years. But I hear you guys have had some strong winds out that way.
Posted By: webguy
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 6:43 PM
Strong winds, downed power lines, flooding. The biggy was the intense dust storm prior to the rain coming. Everything was slimy and what the rain didn't wash off left a thick layer of dust. Just looking at Channel 7 news and seeing how backed up the 5 is. I have a feeling we're gonna get our butts kicked this year, but my son will love it! He goes snowboarding at Mountain High every weekend.
------------- Clean tools = Clean work!
Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 7:54 PM
I remember when I lived in Long Beach, CA the annual rain fall was around 7 inches or so per year. That still the case? I now live in Mandeville, LA and a few years ago, we had over 18 inches in 36 hours. My house was ½ inch away from being a bath tub. Good luck with the weather out there. BTW, mustangadam, if you post a pic, I may have just what you need.
Posted By: webguy
Date Posted: December 16, 2002 at 8:15 PM
Thanks, mustang. Nope, we have been having the a drought seasonally for the last fwe years, so aqll this rain is a belssing to some, a curse to others (like all the Richy Riches that have $1.5 mil plus homes on the hillsides) I originally grew up in Florida, which is a half a lifetime ago. Moved to So Cal in 79. Went back to Florida twice this past year to visit. God, I miss the green of everything. I had forgotten how much grass just grows everywhere, and now I live in the Hgh Desert. What a change. Will probably think about moving back there in a few years, after my 10 year old little sweetheart graduates, or maybe sooner. Yeh, y'all back east have been havin' some weather, and now we are finally gettin' our's...It is now 7:15 PM and everything has calmed down and is clearing up. Just got back from getting milk and some streets are still shut down due to downed power lines. I am calling it quits for tonight, catch up tomorrow......g' nite.. ------------- Clean tools = Clean work!
|