nagrod18 Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Over thanksgiving break I was working on my head unit, I plugged in an Y adapter that plugged into the auxilary RCA inputs in my head unit. so that I have a headphone style input hidden in the ashtray. but when I closed my door, the amp lost power. I think I may have somehow maybe broken the amp remote wire, because both the inline fuse and the fuse on the amp are fine. the remote wire is tight to begin with so I am almost positive that is what is the problem. How can I confirm this without replacing the wire? I just got a DMM that I would love to have a reason to play with. or if anyone has any other input, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenW Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Pull the remote wire from the amp. Turn your HU on and check the voltage on the remote wire. NO voltage? Broken Remote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chieffo Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 could be a loose ground wire also..but thats if no power is going to the amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veneficus Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Other things to check... divert your power from your main power with a small wire (12ga) and plug that into the remote, if the power turns on, your amp is still good and the remote line is shot. Other things to check would be the power line (check your terminals). If not the sub channel could have blown. This happened to me over the summer. The amp will fire up correctly and turn on but it just will not play any sound at all. Its an easy, and fairly cost effective repair when you send it back to the manufactuer. Best of luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagrod18 Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 ok sounds good, unfortunately I have to wait until I am home to w0rk on this. I just have these darn finals to get through. oh well, thanks for the help. I'll let you know what it was when I fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagrod18 Posted December 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 hooray, finals are over and I am home. I took the suggestion of removing the remote wire and checking it's voltage, I got a reading of close to 12 volts. so it looks like the remote wire is fine, I wish it weren't, that'd be easy to replace. I also checked the ground wire connections, they feel fine. lemme know if anyone can think of anything else to check. once again the amp doesn't turn on, everything else is fine, i.e. head unit, fuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderlord Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 hooray, finals are over and I am home. I took the suggestion of removing the remote wire and checking it's voltage, I got a reading of close to 12 volts. so it looks like the remote wire is fine, I wish it weren't, that'd be easy to replace. I also checked the ground wire connections, they feel fine. lemme know if anyone can think of anything else to check. once again the amp doesn't turn on, everything else is fine, i.e. head unit, fuses.←try moving the ground wire to somewhere else... Try hooking another amp up and seeing if it turns on... you don't have to hook up the speakers obviously, if you hook up the power, ground, and remote and the light turns on.... then the other amp may be bad. hth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenW Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Did you check the voltage on the power wire to you're amp?Speaker cables hooked up?RCA's plugged in at amp AND head unit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagrod18 Posted December 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I just measured the voltages of the positive power to the positive amp terminal (no greater than 1.5 V), the negative amp terminal to the negative power wire (no greater than 2.5 V), and then the postive power line to the negative power line (no greater than 1.6 V). I guess my power line is the problem, should I just replace it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veneficus Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I just measured the voltages of the positive power to the positive amp terminal (no greater than 1.5 V), the negative amp terminal to the negative power wire (no greater than 2.5 V), and then the postive power line to the negative power line (no greater than 1.6 V). I guess my power line is the problem, should I just replace it?←Yep, thats the best idea. Go to the store and start with some new wire becasue there may be a short in it somewhere or it could be frayed, etc. Before you do that, take the amp up to your battery with some short lines and test it out just to make sure thats not where the problem is at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagrod18 Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 I replaced the positive and ground power lines and now everything works fine. thanks for all the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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