Quality kicker for my General Lee

1st off, Dave in New Jersey is not building the Davemade Box's anymore, and hasn't for years. He does still build tho, but mostly just for friends...The Davemades you see most guys running are built in North Carolina by a guy named Joe who use to work with Dave...He still builds the box's however to the same specks as Dave did, so there's no difference there.

As for if Dave's are as good as the hype...Lets just say Davemade is what most other compare their products to...X Force, Fat Boy both got their start by coping Davemade...Along with several others...

I run nothing but Davemade, with the exception of my tube box on my Base set-up, and have never-ever ran into a problem with them...I have a 1x4, 2x4, 2x6, 8 pill, and a 16 pill Davemades and they all do exactly what they are rated at...No hype. Just watts...

When it comes to what you read on the Internet about these Amps that are built for CB Radio, you have to take what you read with a grain of salt, because everyone thinks the Amps they run are the best....I'll be the first to tell ya, Davemades are not the best out there...They are considered to produce what some call "Dirty Watts" meaning there's little if any filtering involved so they can cause you to bleed on other channels...But so will X Forces, Fat Boy's, No Names, and every other C class box...They are what they are... If you use one with a radio that's been peaked out to the max, then you can expect some major harmonics out...but that also is with any amp.

"Dirty watt's in= Dirty watts out, only louder!"

 

Well as long as the $ aint wasted...
A way back i noticed when i plug the charger in for my gps i hear added static..Now i hear it when i touch the screen..Just as i did a gear change in the truck if i let her drop to idle my radio is almost dead quiet with no sq...As soon as i grab some peddle the static starts up again...###..Gettin to the point of selling all my gear abd have no radios in this f*&king volvo..

 

absolutely... When I had a General Lee, I had it hooked up to a straight 4 pill and it sounded great. I also used it with my 2x6, and didn't have any problems either, but I wouldn't recommend hooking one up to something like a 1 pill or a 1x2 or 1x4 because it's going to over drive the 1 pill. (if that makes since)....

Bottom line, nothing wrong with Davemades is the point I was trying to get across earlier, I'm not sure if Charger is even still building Fat Boy's or not, I do know the FCC tried to stick him with a fine a few years ago and Charger took them off his web site...X Force supposedly has gotten better the last few years with their design...I did try a X Force once back around 04 or 05 and had nothing but hell with it, but Carl finally just refunded me my money so I don't have anything bad to say about them now...

Texas Stars are not bad at all either, they do need to be modified for 11 meter tho, but most shops will do that for you anyway...

 

My fatboy is a 4pill. I run the radio on high, had to have it tuned to star with,but it sounds good and clear now

 

I had them demons in my volvo too, would disappear at dead stop... made it a real b!tch to find the problem.
Thanks to help I found here, I ended up putting graphite in the front hubs, and all quiet now.

 

What hubs..Wheel hubs??
If your joking or somethim im totally missing it,if your serious wellll im still missing it..

 

My radio is direct to the battery with 14 ga i think(thicker than stock harness anyways)so you would think it wouldnt affect it..Unless its somethin to do with coax routeing near electrical and some of that rf stuff i dont understand..