I am having problems wiring my amp up. I put a fuse tap in my wiper slot. The wipers come on so im sure the fuse tap is in right. I then wired my remote wire from my fuse tap to the D/C spot on my switch. I then wired the rest of the remote wire from the ACCESSORY prong to my amp. Then the ground to ground. Now I know I have power because the switch light was comming on. However my amp isn't turning on. I do have it connected to the positive terminal of my battery and the ground is connected to the chassis.

As far as I can tell, everything is exactly how it should be but I dont seem to be getting power to my amp. I checked all the fuses and their good. Anyway to tell if I am getting power to my amp. I tried looking for a light tester but none of the 3 radio shacks around me carry them.

Edit: I did try a small LED light, but ended up blowing my switch, I can say that it never lit up when connected to the acc prong and was turned on, or when I connected it from power to ground on the switch.

 

umm only thing i could think of to make sure its your wiring and not the amp is hook the remote wire up to a 12v source and see if it turns on. if it turns on then you know its the wiring. if it doesn't then try something something else. and how did you blow your switch if all you did was put a small led on it.

oh and if you can post some pics up of your setup that might help me and others help you figure out whats wrong if it is your wiring.

 

Here is the setup. I used direct links since thepics are huge. Edit: Fuse blew when 1 wire touched another while fidgiting. I replaced it but still no change.

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Here you can see the red connector lengthing the remote wire...if you look to the left,its hooked to the third from the bottom prong of the amp. That is the voltage, so hooking it right to the voltage didn't turn it on either.

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Here you can see the switch is on and lighted.

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here you can see the switch is off. So there is power going through the switch.

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here I hooked the remote back to the send from the bottom (where it belongs) and hooked the 12V to the battery back to the 3rd from the bottom (where the remote ways) with no change.

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this just shows its connected to the battery.

So yeah, it doesn't turn on.

 

show me a pic of how you wired your switch. cuz you've wired everything correctly to the amp but the switches can sometimes be tricky especially the ones with the led's in them.

 

To dark for a pic, but ill explain it really well...

I used a fuse tap to tap into my wipers. I then connected a inline fuse to the tap then connected fuse wire to my Power prong on the switch. I then wired the ground prong to a screw above the fuse box thats connected to the chassis. I then ran a remote wire from the middle prong (the accessory one) all the way to my amp remote hook up.

 

have you tried disconnecting the ground wire and trying it like that and have you tried bypassing the switch and hooking the remote wire directly up to the fuse tap?

 

not yet. but ive tried 3 different switches...

 

ya i would try those 2 things and let me know how it goes.

 

tried both and nada...

 

pm emperor(sp)JJ and ask him... hes really awesome at audio...

 

do it with your fog lights. and where you grounded it. if there paint you might wanna scratch it off a lil bit to accually get metal

 

no pain there..

 

ya but the ground should only be for the little led light that comes on to show that the switch is activated. the remote wire in my eyes should be a direct connection to a fuse slot that turns on and off with the car rather then being on a switch. so either the connections to the switch are wrong or the amp is faulty. those are should be the only 2 options.

now another option if you can't figure it out on your own is drive down to a local audio shop and see if one of them would take a look really quick for free and see if they can spot anything.

 

aaaaaaaaaa switch wired wrong no buenos mida melt down mexican style


get a prewired 2 prong switch. there will be 2 wires coming off the switch. hook one wire up to the fusetap side and one wire to the amp side. there should be no other wires hooked up to anything else or have any other nonsense in the way

 

well he could use his switch that he has but he has it wired wrong somehow. i know exactly which type of switch he has its just your basic rocker switch with an illuminated LED.

 

yup but how he has it wired wrong i dont know. easiest way to fix it is KISS. personally id rather have a working amp then a lil led but whatever

 

whats a kiss?

dont want this to sound rude...but I did say I wired the remote wire direcly to the amp from the fuse tap and still didn't work...the switch wasn't there at the time..

 

kiss is keep it simple stupid.

if u wired it direct and it didnt work then u need to figure out why it didnt work... was power going to the amp? (12v to the remote?) if not then u need to test that circiut and figure out why its not working and fix it or find a different one that will work

also check ur power ground rca ect on the amp make sure they are all reading what they should

 

Its working now. when I hooked the remote wire to the 12V nothing went to the remote slot earlier which would explain why it didn't go on. But what I did was unhooked my bass cannon power and ground and hooked it to the amp and it turned right on. I hooked the power/ground that was to the amp to my bass and it turned on. Put them back the way they were original, bass came on and amp didn't...so I guess there is something faulty when the power/ground wiring for the amp (even though it worked with sub...dunno how that happened) but ill buy more wire and rework it

Thanks for the help guys...now I need a new amp to run my 12's instead of this gay bass cannon...

 

ya i'm the same way. i would have actually done a tap directly into a fuse slot that ran on the same line as the radio and not even bothered with a switch. and rydis glad you got it figured out

 

I wanted the swtich in so I can turn it off even when the car was on, if for whatever reason. I could turn it off with the stereo but well..already goign black/red theme and was only 2 dollars and 3 hours worth of problems lol.

I do got 1 more question though. I have a enclosure set with 2 bass speakers, but they are different speakers and I want to turn them off a amp. However i am unsure of the wattage and impedence of the speakers (and their different I believe)...any way to figure this out?

 

ya you would either take the subs out of the enclosure and it will say on the back of the sub or you get the part number of the sub and look that up online.

 

test it with a multimeter to get the ohms.

oh and dont run 2 different subs.

 

They are both 4 ohms, but I want to run this by you guys real quick...

THe cobalt has a ground for the battery right to the left of it. I have a ground wire set there going to my sub, and the positive going to the battery..the sub works fine...if I hook it to the amp, the amp works. So I hooked another set of wires, 1 going to the same ground, 1 going to the battery. This set didn't work (as we found out above)...I thought wires and connections were bad. So I wired new wire for the ground and the battery with different wire and different hook up connectors. I now have the same problem. This second set of wires isn't working.

When I connected to the amp, I had 11 Volts between remote and +Power and 0 between +Power and ground...hooked these to the sub...didn't work. So thats 2 sets of wires that are wired the same way as the working ones, and both do not work...can I not hook more then 1 thing to the battery or to the ground..this has me puzzled...

 

in theory that should work the only thing that you would possibly notice is a little bit of a lower current but the new wires should work with power. what are you hooking the new wires up to? and when you are hooking up the ground are you using more then 3ft of wire?