OT: Stupid question but I gotta know.
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Silver Member Username: Usask8er1Appleton, Wisconsin USA Post Number: 157 Registered: Jun-05 | Over the past few weeks, weve had storms like every other day. I was just woundering as I was driving down a empty country road last night with my music crankin and lighting all around. Do subs increase your chances of getting hit by lighting? I know its a stupid question but im just curious. |
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Silver Member Username: Alias747MN Post Number: 968 Registered: Apr-05 | Cars can't get hit by lightning because they are grounded by rubber tires, so rest easy bro.  |
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Silver Member Username: Usask8er1Appleton, Wisconsin USA Post Number: 158 Registered: Jun-05 | Well i know for a fact they can get hit by lighting I found this on a .gov website "Your vehicle and its electronics may be damaged if hit by lightning." |
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Silver Member Username: SweatyogreErie, PA USA Post Number: 112 Registered: Mar-06 | Yes vehicles can be hit by lightning, but you don't get harmed. They're also not grounded by the rubber tires, tires are insulators. If your vehicle gets hit by lightning the electricity will be dispersed into the ground by travelling through the chassis and then jumping due to it's extremely high power. Subs won't affect your chance to get hit. |
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Silver Member Username: Livin_loudNy Post Number: 178 Registered: Jan-06 | Well after some thought on this I would think the magnets on a speaker would actually increase chances of it happening, but I'm no scientist here, so don't take me seriously. And I do remember a video of a storm chasing van getting hit right on the antenna. |
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Silver Member Username: Usask8er1Appleton, Wisconsin USA Post Number: 159 Registered: Jun-05 | I guess im less worried about me and more worried about my system, i know the chance of getting hit are slim but latly theres been like nonstop lightning around here and it just poped into my head, what if my car got hit? would my system be fried? |
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Silver Member Username: Livin_loudNy Post Number: 181 Registered: Jan-06 | Well its obviously going to strike from the outside. It must go through your engine and power wire in order to reach your amp, which has a fuse(s) in it, so I'm pretty sure you have nothing to worry about except blowing the crap out of the fuse(s). I dont think the power wires could harness that amount of electricity either... but like I stated above, I'm no scientist |
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Silver Member Username: TweekerPost Number: 109 Registered: May-06 | In the news about a year ago they showed an old lady was driving on the freeway when lightning struck the front of the cargoing up thru the windshield nothing happened to her but she was shaken up and she dint even have a system lol. |
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Silver Member Username: Thomas_gNM Post Number: 807 Registered: Oct-05 | U fu*kin lier tweaker!! LOL im jk wut up man!!?? |
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Gold Member Username: Chaunb3400Huntsville, Alabama U.S. Post Number: 7256 Registered: Jul-05 | well, i no somebody who's car was hit by lightning and he got 2nd degree burns, it cracked his windshield, blew all his tires, and ruined all his electrics in his car..... Also u guys do relize that u have GAS in ur car, and that could catch on fire and blow u up.....Thats why i try not to drive while its lightning out..... |
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Bronze Member Username: NorthomahaPost Number: 90 Registered: Mar-06 | I think if your car got hit by lightning your system might be one of your lesser worries. But if it can mess up your existing electronics Im sure it can mess up aftermarket electronic stuff. But i highly doubt that you would be blown up by your gas becasue gas its self doesnt blow up its when its mixed with oxygen it blows up and its real hard to get the combustable mix right. either way it would suck |
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Silver Member Username: Thomas_gNM Post Number: 810 Registered: Oct-05 | Tel em chauncey, tel em. U know da answer 2 my ? bout port displacement? |
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Silver Member Username: TafkamTexas Post Number: 311 Registered: Apr-04 | Ok I will chime in here, very interesting if nothing else. Here is some stuff I found on starryskies.com: Are you really safe in your car during a storm? I once heard of a woman who hated and feared storms so much that every time it stormed she would make her husband get into the car and drive her around until the storm was over! Generally you are safe in your car. The rubber tires provide some shielding but it is the metal body of the car (which provides a safe path to ground for the lightning) which provides the real safety. This does not mean your car cannot be struck by lightning however, and it is a terrifying event. A car in Des Moines Iowa was struck directly by a bolt of lightning. The car stopped dead, its electrical systems fried. The occupants were uninjured, but the car had small holes in its body, the tires went flat and there was a yard wide crater beneath the car! Traveling in your car during a storm is still not wise and you should not do so unless necessary. I had a friend who worked for the telephone company and who was on duty during a severe storm. The lightning posed no direct threat this time, but he was killed from a falling tree. And from Tafkam.com freakin weirdo Do not, in any circumstances, listen to Rap or Hip Hop music when in a storm. This type of music really pi**es off the Gods and you will be hit directly through the magnets of the sub na woofers which through you are listening. The Gods know Crap and they will spare you if you listen to 80's hair bands or more modern Metal. Just ask Judas Priest, Rob Halford has been hit by lightning over 80 times and although G*y as a San Franciscan schoolboy, he remains alive to this day. Wow the things you can find on Google. Freakin amazin!! |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2974 Registered: Mar-04 | the lightning will take the path of least resistance to the 'ground'. lightning is created when negativly charged particles in the air build up and form an attaction for possitivly charged particles on the ground. if you car happens to be in the path of this field, then you stand a chance of getting struck (my neighbor got struck in his logging truck a few years ago). water + electrolites = conductive medium also, as Chauncey said...your electrical system in your car can get smoked |
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Silver Member Username: TweekerPost Number: 110 Registered: May-06 | lol f u ck you tj . sup lol. yeah i forgot to add her tires were flat too and her car was all fucked up. what causes the tires to go flat anyways ist it force of the strike? |
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Silver Member Username: Thomas_gNM Post Number: 816 Registered: Oct-05 | Tweaker- "what causes the tires to go flat anyways ist it force of the strike?" TJ- maybe. |
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Silver Member Username: Livin_loudNy Post Number: 186 Registered: Jan-06 | You didn't mean like pushing the car down (like a boulder was dropped on it) and popping the tires did you? |
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Silver Member Username: Livin_loudNy Post Number: 188 Registered: Jan-06 | Oh yeah, and  |
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Bronze Member Username: BelieveIllinois Post Number: 97 Registered: Jun-05 | sub magnet vs flux capacitor i think 1 kilowatt of power goin through a sub is enough to have an affect on the lightning in the event of being actually struck interesting.. on a 12 volt system with an exhaust putting out roughly 50 volts in a small energy field so where does my theory go that 50 volt exhaust could be considered capacitence instead of resistance.. and in essence of flow.. resistance being discharge but capacitence because the 50 volts was a bolt on and not a true root power an algorithm with no variable in existance and since theres no termination in a defined end state.. rather dissipation in the defined end state i would have to say that with the lack of termination at the end state... variously defined as it be.. would push instead of suck anyway.. i need some meat after taht brain storm oh btw.. i blew a sub watching a lightning storm best way for them to go! |
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Gold Member Username: FandimReno, Nevada United State... Post Number: 1043 Registered: Jun-05 | you can say fucked now? Odd. I cant even post the name of my car.. it's a forbidden word..  |
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Silver Member Username: MadeupnamePost Number: 221 Registered: Sep-05 | fucked? wow |
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Silver Member Username: Thomas_gNM Post Number: 835 Registered: Oct-05 | lol Seth. FUCKED!! |
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New member Username: PeterstvGainesville, Florida U.S.A Post Number: 8 Registered: May-06 | Rubber is an inductor. Rubber has a certain amount of inductance. Lightning's amperage is a lot greater than the inductance of rubber tires. Just because you have rubber tires does not mean that you are safe from all electricity. You are only safe from electricity that does not exceed the inductance level of the rubber tires. Also, I was told that tires are made out of a synthetic material now. I don't know if that is true or not, but if it is, this synthetic material may not even be an inductor at all! As far as the subs attracting lightning goes, the actual metal material of the sub always has a chance of being truck, all metal does. But having them on wouldn't increase your chances of being struck. --Ted Peters Jr. --Peters TV and Electronics |
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Gold Member Username: PelonaPerris, California USA Post Number: 1546 Registered: Dec-05 | fucked |
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Gold Member Username: PelonaPerris, California USA Post Number: 1547 Registered: Dec-05 | holy sh1t it did work!!!!! |
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Gold Member Username: PelonaPerris, California USA Post Number: 1548 Registered: Dec-05 | but u cant say sh!t....duuummmm |
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Silver Member Username: PanochaPost Number: 183 Registered: Jun-05 | yeah i always put my seatbelt on when i see a cop lol. |
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