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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 2 Table of Contents Welcome to Club GTi ............................................3 About this Manual .................................................3 Autosound at its Best ............................................4 Designing Your System .........................................4 Component Placement..........................................5 Installation Warnings and Tips ..............................5 Mounting Instructions .....................
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 3 Welcome to Club GTi About This Manual Thank you for purchasing the finest Because of the performance capability automotive woofer/midrange JBL has ever of your GTi Competition Series product, produced. As a GTi Competition Series and the variety of potential system owner, you are a member of a select group configurations, we strongly recommend of people who enjoy the most advanced that you have the system professionally mobile audio products available
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 4 Wire High Temperature Fiberglass Voice Autosound at its Best Designing Your System Coil. This voice coil uses lightweight The 400 and 500GTi’s are built to The availability of separate aluminum wire to maintain the agility to meet the same rigorous standards of components makes a variety of system reproduce high frequencies while its large construction and performance that have designs possible. Because of their small diameter assures extremely high t
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 5 Woofer/Midrange, and a laboratory- 2. The best center image will be Installation Warnings and Tips optimized crossover. The most popular achieved when the distance from the • Be careful not to cut or drill into fuel left speaker to your left ear is as equal system configuration is a hybrid using an tanks, fuel lines, brake or hydraulic as possible to the distance from the active crossover for the subwoofer to lines, vacuum lines or electrical wiring r
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 6 5. Replace the stock speaker panels. speaker which will align the grille logo Mounting Instructions in the desired orientation. Pick a mounting location after reading 2. Cut out the speaker hole at the the recommendations in the Component mounting location. Drill 3 pilot screw Location section of this manual. 1 holes using a /8" (3mm) drill. MOUNTING 3. Run speaker wire to the hole location RING Mounting Speakers in ADAPTOR making sure that either a
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 7 Logo Orientation on Grille to the amplifier. A minimum wire gauge of FABRIC The orientation of the logo on the 18AWG is recommended, with larger size DISPLACEMENT grille relative to the grille frame can be wire suggested for runs longer than 10 feet. RING adjusted. Simply remove the metal grille The polarity (the positive / negative and reassemble the metal grille to the orientation of the connections) for every grille frame utilizing a different tab
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 8 that the 400 and 500GTi should always be frequency operation, it should have its high perfect, it is advisable to keep your crossover connected in the same polarity as the tweeter and extremely low frequencies blocked by points away from the range where your however. It is possible, that due to the electrical means in order to achieve the best hearing is most sensitive. Therefore we difference in the distance the sound travels system fidelity and th
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 9 to tweeter transition. Set the high crossover best performance and system reliability, you improper setting of amplifier level controls. An frequency at or above 5kHz if a 12dB per should select an amplifier with an output rating exception to this is if the passive crossover octave crossover is used and at or above greater than the maximum power likely to be components are mounted near a source of 3.5kHz if you are using an 18 or 24dB per used to gene
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 10 Specifications: 400GTi 500GTi Frequency Response Without Crossover: 80Hz – 5kHz 60Hz – 5kHz Recommended Minimum High-Pass Crossover Frequency for Medium Power Operation: 80Hz 60Hz Recommended Maximum Low-Pass Crossover Frequency: 5kHz 5kHz Continuous Power Handling With 12dB Passive Network High Passed at Recommended Minimum Frequency: 100 Watts 150 Watts Continuous Power Handling With 12dB Passive Network High Passed at 150–200Hz (Midrange Ope
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400/600 MANUAL.QXP 7/17/98 11:10 AM Page 11 Thiele-Small Specifications: 400GTi 500GTi Free Air Resonance (Fs): 125Hz 100Hz Electrical Damping (Qes): 0.52 0.51 Mechanical Damping (Qms): 5.17 5.14 Total Damping (Qt): 0.47 0.4 Equivalent Volume of Compilance (Vas): 0.0388 cu. ft. (1.10 liters) 0.1059 cu. ft. (3.0 liters) 2 2 Effective Cone Area (Sd): (0.0060 m ) (0.0092 m ) Center to Peak Linear Excursion (Xmax): 0.126 inches (3.2mm) 0.126 inches (3.2mm) Voice Coil DC Resistance (Re): 3.4 ohms
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