Im lost without the PW thread!!!!

[AdaminMN]

Minnesota has no sales tax on used boats, at least from a private party. They only tax the trailer. You just have to tell them how much of the purchase price was the trailer portion. I think I told them $500 when I bought mine.

[AdaminMN]

Windows update complete.

Rebooting in 5, 4, 3, 2,

[skippabcool]

NV has great tax laws! Private party no sales tax! There has to be a catch, how does NV make up for it? Income tax? High initial purchase tax? High reg fees? They have to be screwing the people some other way.

Colorado is the same on the boat. And I only paid about a 1/4 of what he had to pay on the trailer.

I know from Utah the other taxes here in CO are a lot higher. I guess it doesn't which pocket you have it in, Uncle Sam will find it.

[skippabcool]

Windows update complete.

Rebooting in 5, 4, 3, 2,

Hope you come back up

[Iwndr]

Wyoming has no state income tax and a 4% sales tax, They get most of their revenue from Oil, Gas and Mineral taxes
Mt has a State income tax but no Sales tax and when you register any Boat, boat trailer or RV you have the option to register it permanently in MT for a very low fee.
In Wyoming you need to register and get taxed on all property annually

[robert theisen]

Tall was vey diplomatic!

[philwsailz]

No pictures of this, it would be hard to take a picture anyway... Last night I went in and clipped the interior/cabin speaker wires off the back of the Sony radio in my sailboat I am working on and installed an amplifier.

The particular amplifier I am using is pretty neat, as it has a full DSP front-end, programmable by way of an RS232 cable. It has a power output of up to 46 watts x 4 at 2-ohms, with an additional 100 watt subwoofer section. Trick is, you need to provide a 1-ohm load to get that much power out of it. The amp is hovering at around 90% efficiency, so very little heat is being given off during operation. It has a peak current draw of just under 30 amps and has a normal average draw of only 5 amps at normal(?) listening levels.

Back to the DSP. With the computer connected, I can go in and tweak a lot of paramemters for each of the five channels... gain, compression, crossovers, crossover slope, delay, channel mixiing, two different sets of EQ, what have I missed?

Anyway, I took advantage of some very basic surround sound theory, specifically that rear information is largely encoded in a "left-minus-right" and "right-minus-left" manner. For the rear speakers, I employed this basic technique to remove all center channel information, leaving only ambient information and steering cues intended by the surround-sound mixing engineer. The result is pretty convincing. While it is not Dolby Pr-Logic, or any of the other newer surround sound technologies, all of them are based upon this fundamental method of rear-decoding and it works pretty good. It also is MUCH better suited to music where you still want a stereo image, as opposed to "all center speaker, all the time" way many surround systems treat music.

I will be adding a subwoofer... I have the actual woofer in the shop now, I just need to build a sealed enclosure for it and get it wired in. It is an 8" unit, and will probably go in the forward dinetted seat base. The enclosure needs to only be about a half-cubic foot, and it will mount inside the dinette seat up against one of the seat base walls, with the woofer firing into the listening area.

I took advantage of the radio's fader control in all of this. It is easy to fade back so that only the cockpit speakers are playing, or I can fade all forward, so that only the surround sound cabin system is playing. I can also set them both at a comfortable mix of front to back, so that there is sound everywhere.


After all of this, we will probably never watch TV or movies, instead just using the stereo for music, but it is fun, and helps me keep my job a hobby, so I do it... Pics soon hopefully, once I get everyting tightened up.

[AdaminMN]

Too cool Phil, do they make a larger alternator for the Atomic 4?

[dingleberry]

Is Bad getting a new boat?

I don't think he plans to at this time. If I remember correctly, he just doesn't use it as much as he hoped, so he thought he'd try to get a good price for it. If he can't get the price he wants, he'll keep it and try to get what use he can from it.

NV has great tax laws! Private party no sales tax! There has to be a catch, how does NV make up for it? Income tax? High initial purchase tax? High reg fees? They have to be screwing the people some other way.

No income tax. Pretty high sales tax rates. Some mining tax (not very high, though). Gaming tax (much lower rate than most states). Moderate property tax.

We love visitors who come and gamble and purchase things here, as they really help support our tax structure. Of course, we are dealing with a massive tax shortfall and the state (and local gov'ts) are having huge budget issues.

Must be hoe tax in Nevada.They would clean up.

We already have clean hoes here...if you go to a licensed brothel, they are tested regularly and must use protection with the customers.

The street whores, on the other hand...

[AdaminMN]

Productivity abounds here at work today.

And I can even squeeze in a post here and there too.

[dingleberry]

Phil is waaay over my head on the stereo technical stuff. I'll take your word for it, that it will sound great!

[Iwndr]

Phil is waaay over my head on the stereo technical stuff. I'll take your word for it, that it will sound great!

X2 All I can say is I bet it is nice

[philwsailz]

Too cool Phil, do they make a larger alternator for the Atomic 4?

They do. YOu would soil your pants though to see what they cost... I saw an alternator the other day, hogh output with external regulation well over the $600.00 mark...

[philwsailz]

Too cool Phil, do they make a larger alternator for the Atomic 4?

I believe mine is a 55A alternator, but you can get one that is a bolt on that is 120A here:http://www.moyermarine.com/cgi-bin/s...rebuilder.html

[AdaminMN]

120A? That would take all 30HP that motor had.