When I connect the remote wire the protection lite comes on. It worked in the store last night when the tested but the connected 12 v directly to the remote switch, will 12 v to remote fry the amp?
2007-03-21 08:23:34 · 6 answers · asked by RYAN B 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Audio
When I connect the remote wire the protection lite comes on. It worked in the store last night when the tested but the connected 12 v directly to the remote switch, will 12 v to remote fry the amp? The speakers are good, I dont have any frays and the ground and power is connected properly Im almost 100% on that.
2007-03-21 08:40:14 · update #1
The speakers are good, I dont have any frays and the ground and power is connected properly Im almost 100% on that.
2007-03-21 08:40:37 · update #2
Sounds like it 'sees' a short. 'Ground' may be your issue. In a nutshell, there are two 'grounds' negative power and'floating' ground. For example, if you take your speaker 'ground' (usually black) wire and connect it to the car's body, you have probably connected a floating ground to negative = a difference in voltage = shutdown (or worse, a blown amp is poorly designed). Speaker wires shorting anywhere??? That'll do it as well... check all speaker connections do not have frays of wire touching car metal or the other speaker wire anywhere.
2007-03-21 08:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by waynebudd 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disconnect your speakers and power up the amp. If it turns on...no protection light...you have a speaker or speaker wire issue. Could be as above a grounded speaker lead but, it also could be a bad speaker. Connect one at a time and see when the protection light comes on. That will narrow down your trouble shooting. After you find the defective channel then disconnect speaker and try again. That will tell you if you have a grounded lead or bad speaker.
2007-03-21 08:36:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
im not sure, but i think the remote wire has something to do with the signal to the amp to know when to power on and off so if you hook up the 12v to it, it may do nothing. Did you make a clean connection into the amp,b/c some times the wire isnt in all the way.
2007-03-21 08:28:15 · answer #3 · answered by Nooka 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
jumpering the +12 power directly to the rem terminal will NOT fry the amp, but you generally DO NOT want to do that for a number of reasons. first off, you don't want the amp on all of the time. it'll kill your battery! secondly, your amp will be pulling a lot of juice through that power cable and you don't really know what that will do to your amp's turn-on circuitry. i've tested lots of amps that way, but never cranked them up loud. it just seems like something that would suck. so you say it worked in the store with speakers connected and off of a +12v jumper to the rem? but not in your car? my biggest greenhorn stereo no-no occured when i got the ground and power terminals on my amp confused because i was UPSIDE DOWN and could not really read the labels. i went by memory, and it served me wrong. the exact same thing that you are describing happened. hey, we all screw up one time or another, but it took me about two hours of fuming and cursing and re-routing and re-mounting grounds till the stupid obvious dawned on me. oops. swapped all around and works to this day.
2007-03-21 09:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by dali_lama_2k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first I would check the amp by connecting both the power and remote together(bridge them) and if it works fine there shouldnt be any problem, but if it lights up the protection again there is probably something wrong with the amp
2007-03-21 10:52:18 · answer #5 · answered by enano 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 20:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋