Accidentally bought long RCA;s

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Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby Stacks » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:17 am

Hi guys,

i ordered some RCA's from Amazon because they were literally 1/3 or the price they are locally, but i had a brain fart and ordered cables that are 17ft long instead of 12ft. Since i've got these now i might as well use them so i was planning on just coiling the excess under the passenger footwell, is there anything under there that i need to look out for in terms of interference?

(if some one has some stinger 6000 12ft cables they'd like to swap of course i may be open to suggestions...)
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby BillyCorgi » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:25 am

Can you cut one end, shorten the cable and regerminate the RCA plugs one end?
Possibly with new plugs from JAYCAR?
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby Stacks » Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:56 am

Would really prefer not to chop them up, i've found those connectors from Jaycar to be hit and miss. Sometimes they were really well, but others they're loose or don't contact cleanly.
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby mihai » Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:52 am

Where is the amp located?

I have some stinger 6000 RCA's left over but they were short (headunit to under front seats short)
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby Stacks » Tue Nov 24, 2015 5:35 am

the amp will be under the seat. how long have you got? i assume they're new?
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby mihai » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:16 pm

Nah, not new. They're long enough to reach from HU to under each passenger seat as that's where I had my amps mounted.

Let me know if you're interested as they're just sitting in a box in the garage at the moment along with some 0 and 4 gauge wiring.
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby TwistdInfinity » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:56 pm

I would avoid coiling, I stead snake them back and forth and cable tie together into a bunch.

Coiling has more inductance
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Re: Accidentally bought long RCA;s

Postby Stacks » Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:57 pm

Went ahead and installed with the longer cables. Running them in large loops and don't appear to have any issues, just a bit more messy than i would've liked. I'll try post up the install details tonight.
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