Building your own tower speaker

[Sdc77]

Here are pics of the final thing. Next step is mounting it on the boat :

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[a_deleon]

Man that came out looking really nice. Those 8's will be loud for sure, just wish I had time to work on mine. It was put on hold after pulling my transmission off and seeing the starter bendix gear and fly wheel needed to be replaced. I hope to start back on it soon and see how mine is going to sound. I have the amps hooked up but I also picked up an EQ to help clean up the sound and it lets me tune each one of the amps.

[mark456]

Wow , it is really so helpful, Thank you

[Sdc77]

Hey guys,
The speaker box is on the boat. My friend is more than happy with it. It sounds very clear and far far away behind the boat.

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[Wylietunes]

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How are you preventing the mounts from pinching right through the vinyl?

Whats the amp of choice and wiring configuration?

[Sdc77]

Hi Michael,
Screws used are those from the factory tower. So it's 4 screws per side. They actually gows through the vinyl. It does not damage it more than the little slit i do. I did it on the 3 spaeker boxes already done. No issue for years till it's well fastened on the tower/clamps.

I used factory speaker wires already inside the tower. Simply moved unsued sides to the used mounts (dont' know if it's perfectly understandable ). The Focal Subwoofer is a dual 4 ohm coil. so it's 2 channel for speakers and 2 channel for the subwoofer. My friend uses old school RFF amps (trapeze ones) to power the whole boat. A four channel (400a4) for cockpit speakers (front and rear speakers paralleled) and tower speakers, a big 2 channel (800a2) for Inside subwoofer (dual 4 ohm coil as well) and tower subwoofer.
Both subwoofer have their coil paralleled. As RFF have separate gain for Right and left side, so it's 2 ohm load on both channel.

Hope I'm understandable !?

[Sdc77]

Hello Guys,
A new built I've done this season for friends, still DIY HLCD, this time in bullet form.
I've used flower pot for woofers ($20 / side), and SS mug for the tweeters ($10 / side) ! Woofers are Crescendo 8 PWX, tweeters are Pyle PDBT29 (Crescendo didn't had their tweeter available when I placed the order). Add a -3dB L-PAD to match the woofer and tweeter level
I Let you calculate how it costs ...

I removed the mug arm, built wood spacers with resin and black paint to get the round shape to attach tweeters to pots and clamps to pots.
I built 2 models : 1 with existing chrome clamps and external speaker connectors, and 1 with budget plastic (also exists in aluminum) clamps (tubing support).

Here they are :

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Here are links to the stuff i've used :

flower pot (woofer can) : http://www.truffaut.com/produit/pot-...m/266423/25253

Mug (tweeter can) : https://www.amazon.fr/Indian-Tiffin-...837S9H8VXVHPKY

budget tower clamp : https://www.esska.fr/esska_fr_s/Coll...001-15610.html

[markthered]

That's awesome, I love checking out your builds.