My adventures in F6B Audio Upgrade

[BruceN]

Looks nice. Did you vent the saddlebag to allow air movement? Your amp looks like it is mounted where one of my three vets are.
So you have the J&M speakers hooked up to the Polk crossover or no?
Your sub looks like it takes up a little more space than mine. Is that a vented enclosure, did you make it?

Hey Jimmy,

Used the stock wiring for the J&Ms and just wired up the tweeters with their supplied passive crossovers. Two vents in the bag wall behind the sub (tyre side) with frogzkins. Thinking about a third vent, but have not made up my mind location and how to tidy it up. Thinking about just going through the leading edge of the bag and covering up with a speaker grill of some type.

The enclosure is sealed and yes, I knocked it up myself. It is just bigger than the minimum volume required for the woofer.

[Jimmytee]

Hey Jimmy,

Used the stock wiring for the J&Ms and just wired up the tweeters with their supplied passive crossovers. Two vents in the bag wall behind the sub (tyre side) with frogzkins. Thinking about a third vent, but have not made up my mind location and how to tidy it up. Thinking about just going through the leading edge of the bag and covering up with a speaker grill of some type.

The enclosure is sealed and yes, I knocked it up myself. It is just bigger than the minimum volume required for the woofer.

I believe the third vent has been the most effective at hearing the bass while in motion. The third vent in mine is positioned right behind my left leg and so the sound is captured in the air envelope of the rider (me) . Port.jpgPort2.jpg

[BruceN]

Hi Jimmy, yes was thinking about following your lead on that, it would sit behind my amp, but there is plenty of room behind the amp due to the shape of the bag (the amp is not mounted flush).

[alarmman215]

Maybe I missed something but what did you use for amp input if the line converters didnt work for you ??


Thanks

[Jimmytee]

Maybe I missed something but what did you use for amp input if the line converters didnt work for you ??


Thanks

You must have. I intercepted the pre-amp signal from the "Audio Unit" at the harness for the OEM amplifier.

I no longer have any of the OEM electronics on my bike though. I installed a Clarion Hide Away marine unit.

[alarmman215]

You must have. I intercepted the pre-amp signal from the "Audio Unit" at the harness for the OEM amplifier.

I no longer have any of the OEM electronics on my bike though. I installed a Clarion Hide Away marine unit.

What were the wire colors for each channel ?

Thanks

[ths61]

What were the wire colors for each channel ?

Thanks

The first picture is of the front and back preamp wire colors on the harness between the OEM head unit and the OEM amp.

The second pictures shows both the preamp and speaker wire colors.

Click on the pictures to enlarge.

HTH

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