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. |
| Finding a good installer |  |
There are good installers and bad installers out there... |
| Aiming your woofer box |  |
Why does aiming your woofer box to the back of your car make the bass louder? |
| Alphabet |  |
Radio operators phonetic alphabet |
| Diversity Antennas | Dual Diversity Antennas | |
| Article | Newspaper | one small article from the newspaper about car audio |
| Books and Magazines |  |
a list of books and magazines that might help an installer or mobile electronics hobbyist. |
| Box Size |  |
How to figure out how big a woofer box is |
| Box Strength |  |
How strong to build your speaker box? |
| Buying Car Audio |  |
on the internet |
| Cars |  |
Automobile information sheets - wire colors, photos, featured installations... |
| CB Radio |  |
CB Radios are coming back, they are now 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 |
| Flash |  |
The benefits of car audio |
| 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. |
| Frequency Spectrum |  |
radio frequencies and what you can hear. |
| 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 |
| Gain Controls |  |
Setting the gains on your amplifiers - its easy! |
| Giant Loudspeakers |  |
Big speakers make big sounds |
| Good Sound |  |
What is good sound |
| Ham Radio |  |
Ya gotta know some tech stuff to get your ham license. |
| Ham Radio Installations |  |
Photos of ham radio installations that we have done recently |
| Head unit Power |  |
More Lies |
| Head Rest Video Installation | HOW TO install video monitors in headrests | |
| Car Audio History | History and Trivia about car audio | |
| Car Warranty Information | Moss Magnuson Act of Congress | |
| IMAGING | How loadspeakers image | |
| How to attract customer to your favorite car stereo store! |  |
these pictures explain it all! |
| The World Famous Installer Mailing List |  |
AKA the IML - This is an email based listserve for installers and those in the 12v industry ONLY! Since 1996 |
| Installer Test |  |
This is what we use at our store to evaluate installer applicants |
| Installer Tool List | what car audio installers need | |
| Loudness Control |  |
Why is it there? |
| Mobile Electronic Mailing List |  |
Mobile electronics enthusiasts (general public) |
| Multi path | FM static and picket fencing | |
| Noise ordinances |  |
How to avoid noise ordinances - Loosing our freedoms |
| Ohms Law with Chart |  |
The World Famous Ohms Law Chart. Print it and hang it on your wall |
| Old Alarm history | Some neat photos | |
| Poor Car Stereo | A story of the life of a car stereo | |
| Pre Amp | pre amp and output voltage | |
| Proper Grounding |  |
how important is the ground wire? |
| Radio Spectrum | Radio frequencies and where they are | |
| Short wave Radio | fascinating world of worldwide radio | |
| 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 | |
| Total Crap - TSS |  |
My opinion of Software specially made for a car audio store |
| 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 | |
| PARTS |  |
Do it yourself installation parts |
| KITS |  |
Dash Kits to mount your new stereo in your car |
| WIRES |  |
Wire harnesses for radios and cars to make your install easier |
| ANTENNA ADAPTERS |  |
Antenna parts for the do it yourselfer |
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 Some of our other great items. |
DVD Double Din Mirrorlink Bluetooth Receiver  KW-NSX1 Great Double Din size Headunit Bluetooth DVD AM FM iphoe or android $549.98  |
harness  raptor fd-5014 Ford into car harness 70-5514 $4.50 |
lights  varad alwpwh 3 led bulb - White $18.33 |
hardware  install-bay 3mytt Yellow 12/10 ga 3M T-tap $1.75 |
harness  metra 70-1770 Into Car Wire Harness $7.59 |
wireandcable  stinger spw318bk 18 gauge Power Wire $0.13 |
dashkits  metra 99-8902 Dash kit for mounting an aftermarket radio $14.95 |
auxiliary-input  kenwood kca-ip202 iPOD Video Direct Cable for Rear USB connection $29.99 |
dashkits  metra 99-8212 Dash kit for mounting an aftermarket radio $28.95 |
harness  pioneer wh-p16c Pioneer Radio Harness 16-pin into radio AKA PIO-16/E $17.95 |
