soundgate overload!

[Perry, Christoper (EDS)]

Here is a link to the company that makes the adapter I got from crutchfield.
HTTP://www.go2pac.com look for the OEM-2 adapter.  It is apparently rated up
to 60 watts and you can adjust the gain for all four channels.  All in all,
a pretty handy device.  It accepts line-level (pre-amp) inputs and high
level (speaker) inputs. Personally I think the Turbo -x device would work
very well in mating the pre-amp outputs of an aftermarket head unit to the
inputs of the factory rear speakers in my 90q.

HTH,
Chris Perry

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Dikeman [mailto:brett at cloud9.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 5:08 PM
To: Chuck Reisig; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: soundgate overload!


At 10:00 PM -0500 2/1/02, Chuck Reisig wrote:
>     I also have a Soundgate adapter in my '90 V8 and initially had a
>similar problem.  You have to connect the head unit pre-outs to the
>Soundgate, or else you will overdrive it.  Using the line outputs, I
>couldn't turn the thing up past 9, it was too loud!!

Huh?  "Line outputs"?  That term is generally used to describe the
pre-outs.  Actually, the full term is "line level output."  You must
mean the speaker outputs.

>   Changing over to
>the pre-outs of the head unit it seems to work fine.


Hmm.  The soundgate adapter was clearly designed to work off the
speaker outputs.

I think I may have misunderstood the tech; I could have sworn he said
to put the 8 ohm resistors in line with the speaker outs from the
deck, but I'm getting this sneaking suspicion that he said/meant put
them in -parallel- with the adapter.  8ohms would be roughly the same
as a speaker, but the resistors are only 10W, they'd be 4x over their
rating.

I'll call them in the morning; its still doing the same stuff, if not
worse, with the resistors in series with the adapter(installed on the
+ side.)

Brett
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