Teh Noise

_gonz_ · Post by **_gonz_** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:43 am

Bwcad1 wrote:ok i can take your points into consideration but not this one it should be no more than 6 inches i have never seen a battery that you would have to put the fuse 18 inches away thats just crazy talk! lol

You don't Have to....
It's just the maximum allowable length away from the battery for safety. You should get it as close the the battery as you reasonably can.

SPL competitors sometimes use no fuses at all, because god forbid they lose that micro-fraction of a volt!!!

Rather the whole car go up in flames

Someone on CAF got into a heated argument with myself, and another pretty knowledgeable guy, because he was adamant that you never fuse at the battery. Advice like his has gotten people killed.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:47 am

exactly thats y i say it should be as close as possile. and i know i always run fusing even in my comp car that .01v or what ever it could be just isnt worth it to me.

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:53 am

I second that. I've seen kids too cheap to buy the fuse and have something short in their trunk. That power wire can burn for quite a while. lol.

_gonz_ · Post by **_gonz_** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:56 am

Bwcad1 wrote:ok i can take your points into consideration

Also take into consideration that, we do things above and beyond, when we're really trying to do it right.

Theres convienient...
And then theres "optimal".

To say your RCA signal cables have to be on the opposite side of the car from your power cable, is incorrect... in my view and experiences.

To say "the optimum way to run cables is to isolate them" is actually correct. The only part I'd argue with is where and why you'd see any negative effects... because you should'nt see an actual difference either way.

I hope I'm making sense here.
So if we're ripping apart both sides of the car anyhow, and running RCAs down one side, and power down the other is easily doable... ask yourself, why not take the optimum approach?

But if you have a noise problem, I really don't think moving the cables to the opposite side will fix it. If it does actually eliminate the noise, I'd immediately replace that cable, because at that point I'd conclude it's faulty. In essence, the problem being with the cable itself, not it's location.

With home theater for example, people want their power cables away from their RCA cables. Well, at some point, your wires are going to end up crossing over one another... or else, all tucked behind the entertainment system in close proximity to one another anyhow. So end result, it's usually just foolish to worry about a non-existant problem, when with wiring, it's hard to keep things apart, sometimes.

Now when, and if, it really does become a problem, that would be the time to confront it. Fortunately, these days, it really isn't an issue. And it does'nt mean $3,000 interconnect cables are necessary, just decent quality $10-$15 sets will suffice.