Installer.com Technical Papers
 | Being around to witness the history and development of car audio and mobile electronics for the last 4 decades
we have some great stuff to share in addition to the many technical papers we have compiled and written to help installers and our customers. Feel free to link to them on your own website. Please credit original author. |
| Car Audio History 101 | I cant remember who wrote this, or when, but it is pretty darn acurate.. | |
| Poor Car Stereo | A story of the life of a car stereo | |
| Aiming your woofer box |  |
How can aiming your woofer box to the back of your car make the bass louder? |
| Article | Newspaper | one small article from the newspaper about car audio |
| Box Size |
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How to figure out how big a woofer box is |
| Box Strength |  |
How strong to build your speaker box? |
| CB Radio |  |
CB Radios never went away, they are still a viable communications medium. |
| Cone Area |  |
Loudspeaker Cone area Myths and Truths |
| Fiber Optic AUX input |  |
2005 Volvo XC-90 - adding direct connect FM modulator Some say this cannot be done |
| Frequencies and wavelength chart |  |
chart with sound wavelengths 1/4, 1/2 and 1 wavelength through out the spectrum. Often overlooked but very important for building serious systems. |
| FS Speaker Resonance |
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and how to find your woofers free air resonance |
| Fuses |  |
Fusing - how and why fuse your electrical goodies |
| Finding a good installer |  |
There are good installers and bad installers out there... |
| Good Sound |  |
What is good sound |
| Ham Radio |  |
Ya gotta know some tech stuff to get your ham license. |
| Car Audio History | History and Trivia about car audio | |
| Car Warranty Information | Moss Magnuson Act of Congress | |
| How to attract customer to your favorite car stereo store! |  |
these pictures explain it all! |
| Installer Tool List | what car audio installers need | |
| Loudness Control |  |
Why is it there? |
| Multi path | FM static and picket fencing | |
| Ohms Law with Chart |  |
The World Famous Ohms Law Chart. Print it and hang it on your wall |
| Old Alarm history | Some neat photos | |
| Pre Amp | pre amp and output voltage | |
| Proper Grounding |  |
how important is the ground wire? |
| Speaker Boxes | Materials, Airtight, Bracing, Dividers? | |
| Speaker Graphs | test page, I will make this into something soon. | |
| Speaker Impedance Testing | Do it yourself | |
| Speaker specs | speaker specs for the layman. This section will be greatly expanded very soon. | |
| Test Equipment |  |
Cool test gear to help our car audio hobby |
| The Perfect Installer | I like it! | |
| The perfect speaker box |  |
is there a such thing as a perfect box? |
| Tight Bass | uncovering the myth of tight bass... | |
| Transfer Function |  |
how your car changes your speakers sounds. |
| Trunk Rattles | How to fix your rattling panels in your car | |
| Wattage | How to measure your own wattage | |
| World Finals | Some History of car stereo contests | |
| 12 dB/OCTAVE CROSSOVER | Chart to help you design your own Crossover | |
| Cat5 vs RCA cables | True story with tests and pictures- don't let marketing bullshit take you in |