Mount Amp on Sub Enclosure?

[CBhedwar]

How damaging / dangerous is it to mount an amp to the side of a sub woofer enclosure (assuming there is room for the amp to breathe)? Will it affect performance any more than mounting a few feet away?

 

[TrueProtege]

Mounting the amp on a subwoofer enclosure is accecptable, but some say the excess vibration can cause connections inside the amp to break lose and cause a failure. Many use this option (and I have b4) and never have a problem.

 

[got wake?]

you shouldn't have any problems with a well built amp. hell, even my old power acoustik amps were mounted to the enclosures and i never had any problems with them. think about how much vibration any amp has to deal with when it's mounted in a car, whether or not it's secured to the enclosure. they are designed to take a beating.

 

[rednecks_r_us]

I have never had any problems mounting an amp to the sub box. I even had this set up with an amp hooked up to my bandpass box with 3 12's in it in the back of my old Cherokee. I used to wheel the hell out of it too. Fallen trees who cares just climb over them. Whats a few scratches and dents in an old beater.

So you can safely mount your amp to the sub box.

 

[loccusst]

We do this all the time at the shop. Companies have testing facilaties for things like vibration for their components.

 

[MP5_509]

If you do mount the amp to the sub enclosure its a nice little package for theives to get if your car gets broken into. It happened to me. I had 3 10" w6's and a Xtant 1000w amp mounted to the box. They both mysteriously disappeared one dark and stormy night in 2002. So now when i put my 10" in my P5 the amp is goin under my seat.

 

[got wake?]

it doesn't matter where it's mounted. if a theif wants it, he'll take it, depending on how much time he has. a good 2-way alarm and a mossberg 500 are the best way to prevent stolen equipment