Car Stero Set up?

Question

Hi all, I brought a cheap 6" sub w/ box that includes the amp inbuilt... but when i came to installing it i was at amazement at how to get it to work. I'm trying to coordinate it with a sony head unit that I installed myself and i'm not shore weather its not working because of my lack of electrical know how o weather the sub box is faulty. I have included photos of the sub's amp and the stamatics of the sony head unit. Please could somehow illustrate how i'm supposed to set this up:-)
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Answer 1

Ok is easy just follow step by step. First you need to get power wires for the amp, a 4 or 8 gauge wire (about 15 ft)is recommended and a fuse holder connected to this wire no more than 6 inch from the battery, this is to protect the wire and your electrical system. Also need ground wire about 3 ft. These are the power wires connected to the amp. Now the remaining power wire is the remote. This is virtually the on/off switch of the amp. Whenever your radio is turned on, the amp is powered too. This is connected to the back of the radio to its remote wire, if the radio wires are universal the is the blue one (only one , which power your antenna if applicable). Connect the ground wire of the amp to the chassiss of the car no more than 8 inch from the amp to reduce noise to the lines. Now the amp has power. The next step is to connect the input audio signal to the amp (RCA cables) . They 're connected from the back of your pre amp outputs of the radio to the input terminals of the amp (LF, RF, LR, RR), In the case your radio has only 2 ouputs (L,R) then you need a RCA Y-type splitter to have 4 channels connected to the amp. Now the only remaining connection is the speakers wires. Connect each speaker in its respectively output terminal of the amp. Now it should be all ready to go, just adjust the gain and the crossovers to your acoustical needs.

Go to this site for wiring diagrams and installing instructions.
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Answer 2

Using RCA cables, connect the "sub out" on the head unit to the "low input" on the subwoofer. This will allow you to use the head unit's built in subwoofer volume control.

Connect a wire from the REM terminal on the subwoofer to the blue/white wire on the Sony head unit. Others have told you to use the blue wire. This is incorrect.

The 12V(+) wire on the subwoofer should be connected to the battery's positive terminal. Don't try using 4-gauge or 8-gauge wiring; from the looks of the picture, that's a tiny amplifier and doesn't require such large wire (in fact, it would be very difficult if not impossible to connect large wires to those power terminals). 12-gauge or even 14-gauge wiring should be ample; if that system draws more than 10 amps of current, I'd be very surprised. Do put a fuse on your power wire within a few inches of the battery terminal; if you're using 14 or 12 gauge wire, use a 15 amp fuse.

Use the same wire gauge on the ground terminal; fasten the other end securely to a metal part of the vehicle in contact with the vehicle chassis. Scrape off the paint in the area where you make your connection, and make sure it's tight and can't pull away. Your ground wire shouldn't need to be more than a foot or two long.

Answer 3

OK, your blue antenna remote from your player will have to be shared between the pwr antenna it is currently connected to and the amp's remote terminal. Just share them. Your power on the amp needs to come from the battery. With it being so small, you can run 10 gauge wire. Make sure you put an in-line fuseholder up by the battery on the power wire.

For your ground to the amp, find a good ground close to the amp. Seat belt hold-downs are a good spot or make your own to solid metal.

For the RCA's going from the CD Player, you have two choices. You can use the Subwoofer out RCA's or the Rear Output RCA's. Your amp has a crossover built in with adjustable frequency, so I would probably go with the Rear RCA outputs and use the crossover in the amp. If you use the Subwoofer RCA outputs, you're at the limitation set by the subwoofer out crossover points (fixed) on the CD Player.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Run powers wires to the back amp
Ground the amp
Run AV wires from the subout from the deck to the amp
Run wires from the amp to the speakers.
Its easy

Answer 5

i imagine you need to be on the radio station function and then carry the clock button for 3 seconds. in case you seem heavily on 2 of your radio station preset buttons, one must have a (m) and yet another must have a (h) . If no longer, in basic terms disconnect the vehicle battery or unplug the radio and plug it decrease back in or reconnect the battery at 12:00 noon.

Answer 6

you need to get the adapter to plug the rca plugs into the correct location in the deck. are you using the "sub out (mono)" plug in the deck? if not thats whats wrong