Alright, well last winter i was bought this brand new Insignia NS-C5111, and since i had everything to install it i did. well today a buddy of mine gave me a 10" kicker solobaric sub(old yes but works) and then a Bazooka 500 watt amp. both work. Anyway today i was wiring it up and i swear i have everything wired up cuz the 2-3 friends who have ran theres and know there stuff were trying to help and couldnt figure it out either. It came to the conclusion maybe it was my headunit not sending the signal through the rca cables to the amp.
Now the headunit has a wire coming out of it that is marked with "Subwoofer" but there is only one rca cable preout for it in that wire. Then on the back there are 6 more plugins
Front input
Rear input
Line output
so we tried all those and had no luck. does anyone have any ideas how i can get this damn amp to work? Only thing i could think of is get a 2-1 splitter and run it to that subwoofer preout? also on the headunit, yes i did turn the subwoofer on.
First off, does the amp get power? It should at least turn on.
Second, I've seen this on a few alpine decks. Like you said, you turned on the subwoofer function on the deck, but is there a volume level? If so, make sure it's turned up. The Line out should also work just fine.
I know i frogot to turn the gain up on some new amps. (insert shame smiliy here) or you might have you setting on the amp wrong its self.
try the system with another sub. i'm sure the sub works, but i've had this problem too. i just redid my setup and while i was building my new sub box i ended up pinching the negative wire going to the woofer cone. everything had power, but the sub did nothing, a quick solder and everything worked again.
Corsica Dude wrote:First off, does the amp get power? It should at least turn on.
Second, I've seen this on a few alpine decks. Like you said, you turned on the subwoofer function on the deck, but is there a volume level? If so, make sure it's turned up. The Line out should also work just fine.
The amp is getting power, the power light is Red instead of green tho
There is no sub volume, just went and checked and even broke out the manual.. doesnt tell how to hook amp up to cd player in manual either.
steven - i have no clue, the guys that were helping me i would figure know what they needed to do with gain and stuff, plus it was just working on my buddies car before i got it
sunflower - i dont have another sub i cant try right now...
Well i called best buy's install techs to see what theyd do and the 2 guys both said it sounds like my headunit may be bad and my warrenty seems to only wanna try and fix it and i figure i mise just buy a new headunit.. cuz i dont really wanna have to eff with it..
hmm if the amp light is red then the amp isnt liking something, if you unplug the woofer does the amp light go green? if thats the case then the amp isnt liking the imdedence of the woofer. try unplugging things from the amp (remote, 12v, ground, RCAs) one by one untill the light goes green. if the amp stays red with just power and ground then id say its pooched.
its in protect mode most likely, which could mean 2 things....as sunflower said you got your sub wired wrong or the amp is a paper weight...
yeh thats what i found out today was it was in protect mod... today i plugged it in minus sub wires and it didnt work anyway.. i took it to the local audio shop for them to bench test it, but im almost certain its done for..
Sounds like it is man... time to get a new amp
