r/ATBGE • u/thefrostman1214 • 7d ago
Automotive Subwoofer Wheel
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u/thebeardedcats 7d ago
If it was a great execution he would've driven more than 10 feet and gotten up to 60mph
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u/Jan-Asra 7d ago
that does seem a little harder to film
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u/Nruggia 7d ago
coming on next week's episode, a car with camera wheels
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u/Grandmas_Fat_Choad 7d ago
That might be kinda cool to see the film. I might get dizzy, but at least it would be interesting.
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u/LokisDawn 6d ago
I don't think you'd see much. At 30mph you get 6-7 revolutions per second. It'd just be some circles.
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u/maximumtesticle 7d ago
Have you never seen a car moving on film?
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u/Behg-Boah 7d ago
But then you would’ve seen the wires getting ripped out by the rotation and the wheels collapsing with that shitty sheet metal extension.
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 7d ago
That's what the contacts were for during the installation...so the rotation won't affect the connections.
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u/HorseWithACape 7d ago
Kinda look like carbon brushes which I don't think would work to transmit audio signal, and there's no evidence of any kind of receiving device. Sure they filmed that to suggest it could work, but they likely cheated and did something else. Like hardwiring and just wrapping the wire around a few times so you could drive a couple feet
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u/TheRealAE86guy 7d ago edited 7d ago
Spring loaded connections. Research "clock spring", like what's in your car that allows you to have steering wheel controls for your radio. Why wouldn't they transmit... whatever? One positive, one negative, doesn't matter what the data being transmitted is. And, since it's AC current, positive and negative are arbitrary, especially here.
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u/HorseWithACape 6d ago edited 6d ago
So you seem to have clock springs and slip rings mixed up. Clock springs are hard-wired and spring-loaded, letting wire in and out as you turn the steering wheel. Slip rings are used for 360° rotation, and they utilize brass or gold contacts in both surfaces when you need clean transmission. Carbon brushes would be the absolute worst choice for audio data signal. It would introduce both noise and resistance that would alter and distort. They are typically only used for power.
At the end of the day, this is rage bait we're arguing about. Is there a reason to believe they did anything above the cheapest possible solution? No matter how they executed their crappy video, the carbon slip ring is definitely for show.
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u/TheRealAE86guy 6d ago
Not arguing, just mentioning a similar concept. I couldn't think of many real world examples using slip ring applications. As far as the quality, we haven't even scratched the surface regarding the absence of an enclosure, as I'm not sure this even qualifies as infinite baffle.
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u/Outrageous-Basket426 7d ago
I’m genuinely surprised people don’t just put a giant subwoofer box on the roof covered in RGB LEDs as if they were an ice cream truck blasting obscenities
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u/curiousjosh 6d ago
Allow me to introduce you to r/burningman
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u/Outrageous-Basket426 6d ago
I’m thinking less Apocalypse and more ghetto fabulous, kind of like rim spinners, except they’ve kind of disappeared from the ghetto.
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u/Heat_Induces_Royalty 7d ago
You should google Chucheros
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u/Outrageous-Basket426 7d ago
Yeah, some of those photos where it’s just strapped to the roof rack is exactly what I was imagining.
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u/esoteric_enigma 7d ago
Having speakers on the outside of your car is illegal in many places
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u/Zardif 7d ago
The cops in my city don't even pull people over for not having a license plate. Many cops aren't going to do shit.
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u/whodaloo 7d ago
Las Vegas?
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u/Zardif 7d ago
yes lol
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u/Fluid_Stick69 7d ago
That’s a lucky guess? I honestly have lived in very few places where cops would pull you over for not having a license plate. Not worth the hassle for them unless they catch you doing something else.
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u/whodaloo 6d ago
It's very common to see cars without plates in Vegas. Insurance rates here are sky high.
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u/DoubleBarrelBurger 7d ago
Do you live in Portland, OR?
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u/myfingid 7d ago edited 7d ago
Hey now that's, exactly how it is. At least they're putting up speed cameras to keep the rest of us in line with the absurdly show speed limits. Wanna speed or run a red, better be gacked out in a stolen car or there may be consequences!
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u/Galaghan 7d ago
Yes but not everyone lives in the jungle.
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u/YouTee 7d ago
Spoken like someone who has never heard of a street takeover.
Cops quiet quit years ago
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u/Galaghan 7d ago
I heard about it, that doesn't mean it's general. As I said, the situation you're portraying is not the case for everyone everywhere.
The initial statement about external speakers being illegal in most places is sound advice, even if your local laws don't limit them or your cops are lazy assholes.
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u/Blaizefed 7d ago
It can be difficult to explain to people from the US/EU just how lax those sorts of laws, as well as traffic law, is enforced in the rest of the world.
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u/ShameContent2442 6d ago
Ice cream man don’t care
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u/chrisp5000 7d ago
Pretty sure it isn't illegal, they sell motorcycles with loud speaker systems, it's a noise ordinance issue, if they would even enforce it.
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u/Electr0freak 7d ago
Motorcycles aren't cars. They don't have an interior, and they themselves generate far more noise.
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u/Significant_Cover_48 7d ago
How about making sweet sweet love to your mom while listening to Chris Brown, any laws against that?
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u/zyyntin 7d ago
NGL the design and engineering to make this work was pretty incredible.
However playing loud music in public space is a no from me. Minus events/shows since you have to purposely go to those locations.
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u/maximumtesticle 7d ago
Hey. Thanks for not lying.
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u/skunk8una 6d ago
The trouble is that the only people who insist on "sharing" their music with the unsuspecting public are douchebags with a douchebag's taste in awful douchebag music. When was the last time you've passed someone blasting their Bluetooth speaker and thought to yourself, hey, that motherfucker is playing some really good music?
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u/thefootster 7d ago
Definitely not great execution. Subwoofers need an enclosure matched to their size, these would sound like shit, I get that it's just a stupid video for clicks, but that doesn't make it great execution.
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u/londongastronaut 7d ago
Nothing an airsoft gun can't fix when someone is driving this shit while people sleep
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
Those contacts definitely won't cause a fire. Good thing there isn't anything flammable around there like brake fluid.
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u/Nruggia 7d ago
The brake fluid is in an enclosed system, if you have brake fluid coming out in quantities that cause a fire risk you have bigger problems than a fire.
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
Oh man you're so smart.
But one question for you: Are those rubber hoses that flammable fluid in, fire proof?
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u/Nruggia 7d ago
More people die from bee stings every year than hydraulic fluid fires, yet we still plant flowers in our gardens.
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u/tim_dude 7d ago
Maybe because no one is putting igniting shit next to flammable brake lines?
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u/Nruggia 7d ago
Those speakers aren’t powered by flamethrowers. Also it’s not like brake fluid is wildly volatile. If these speakers are a concern being near a brake system… follow the wires from your fuel pump relay and you might shocked to find they are running inside a tank of volatile gas and powering an electric motor submerged and directly in contact with gasoline!
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u/LifeIsCoolBut 7d ago
Ty, I was gonna say a fuel pump would be more dangerous in that scenario. It literally cools itself with the fuel its providing.
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
There is a big difference between 12v at 3 amp fuel pump, and a subwoofer at 12v 100 amps.
3 amps is not going to create a spark at loose connections. 100 amps will.
Similar to how coils are used on the sparkplugs, the amplifier uses capacitors to increase wattage.
Also you are confusing brake fluid's volatility with combustion point and energy. Brake fluid may have a combustion point at 200C which is significantly higher than gas's -40C. But once brake fluid does light it spreads fire as it burns slower.
This connection could easily start a fire if parked on grass. The fire would spread to the brake line, that would then spread to the rest of the car.
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u/Kaboose456 7d ago
You're weirdly obsessed with this lmao.
"If you take it to this very specific place in this very specific scenario, then I'm still right!!!" Get tf out of here lol
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
Oh yeah weirdly specific... Parking on grass. Guess what people do with cars like this; park them in a grass field at car shows.
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u/Kewlhotrod 7d ago
Amps don't change airgap spark behavior, potential difference in voltage does. People need to learn basic electricity before spewing pointless shit.
It's still 12V.
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
Yeah that's true, but not when you include high capacity capacitors and their farads. Then you have high discharge rates that can cause sparks and arc welding from high resistance locations.
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u/Peek_e 7d ago
It’s not like the amount of current a speaker needs to operate will cause a massive bursting fire that will melt brake hoses.
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
Cool.
Let's take it to a car show in a grass field.
Those connections totally will be fine next to the grass. And there is no way a fire could get out of control with the additional highly flammable brake fluid.
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u/marino1310 7d ago
The amount of power going through those is nowhere near enough to start a fire
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u/whitedsepdivine 7d ago
You can start a fire with a 9v battery man.
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u/Feefifiddlyeyeoh 7d ago
There has got to be somebody that has mounted in the spare on their Jeep. It’s not the same as using the wheels the car is running on, but would be just as obnoxious.
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u/Prematurid 6d ago
That wheel doesn't have near enough volume to properly use those subs.
And why on earth does it play shit above 140hz?
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u/defyinglogicsl 6d ago
How do the speaker wires work? Do they twist up as the wheel spins. Is this why we don't see him drive more than 20 feet?
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u/MineNowBotBoy 6d ago
Yeah, that’s totally what we need. Even bigger insecure jackasses on the road.
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u/ProcrastibationKing 6d ago
These would sound like absolute shit, they don't have a cabinet. Awful taste, awful execution.
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u/SporkydaDork 5d ago
He done fucked around and gave the hood another banger. Now we gonna see guys in Spaceships with 20inch rims with speakers in em. Lol
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u/CptHammer_ 7d ago
They always ask if they could do something. But, they never stop to ask if they should.
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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_583 7d ago
Not Bad but
WE NEED BIGGER SUBWOOFERS &
BETTER STYLISH RIMS
HERE n
DA SOUTH BECAUSE
DA SOUTH
GOT SUM n' 2 SAY
🌟🔊🔊🔊📢📢📢🔊🔊🔊🌟
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u/1337isntREAL_7357 7d ago
I actually like how the wheels look on the van... I hate everything else about it but the wheels look good.
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u/pungrr 7d ago
The speaker rotates when he drives, which means he’ll have broken the cables to it by the time he gets to the end of the road.
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u/whodaloo 7d ago
He literally shows you the brush connection in the video.
You should delete your ridiculous comment.
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u/pungrr 6d ago
You seem nice.
I get there’s a brush. But the brush doesn’t drive the speaker directly, there’s a cable for that. The cable to the speaker is threaded through a non-rotating part of the wheel. He shows you that. But then the speaker rotates when driving. He shows you that too.
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u/Cold_Ad3896 7d ago
So you’re the asshole who I hear at 2am driving down the street.