Well, I hooked everything up and I went to go test my amp and sub and it worked while I was listening to a radio station but when I pressed source on my deck to listen to the CD I had in at the time, the amp shut off? Can someone sleep help me?
that sounds like a head unit problem... not an amp problem. the amp only receives audio signals that are fed to it from the head unit. it doesn't care if it's radio, CD, whatever.
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unless the cd levels out are so high they are shutting off the amp.
but more than likely its not that
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It's a common mistake..... where did you hook the remote turn on line to? What kind of cd player do you have? some will have a power antenna lead and a remote lead. was it blue or blue white coming off of the harness? just make sure it is hooked to the blue white. if that does not solve it then hook it up to ignition.
Is it possible I tapped into the wrong wire? You know the 14awg that goes from the amp to a head unit wire. I just maybe did the wrong one. This 14awg wire runs beside the RCA jumpers.
I have a panasonic CD player. The wire I tapped into is solid blue. It was just connected with the connector and not running through the harness. So the wire was just kind of hanging there and had no purpose so I tapped that ass.
just make sure it is hooked up to the blue white wire behind the radio. i know panasonic has both antenna and amp turn on. what happens is that while listening to the radio the blue wire is energized for a powered antenna. now when a source is changed per say cd source, then the stereo turns off this wire so it can retract the antenna back into the fender for some vehicles.
Now the blue/white wire supplies voltage for as long as the stereo is on, which supplies a turn on for external units
So I just cut into the middle of the blue wire with white strip and just tie my amp wire to it?
If you hooked the amp's remote turn-on lead to the power antenna wire of your head unit (blue), then the amp may very well only be on when listening to am/fm. This is because certain head units only send a signal through the power antenna wire when the antenna is actually in use (ex. listening to the radio), and put it down when it is not. Fortunately, these head units also come with a wire specifically for turning on and off amplifiers (a different color than the blue wire, refer to your manual) which is active whenever the headunit is powered on.
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yea they are right...hook it up to the blue white wire...if there isnt any then use the red wire....
Donnie Darko wrote:So I just cut into the middle of the blue wire with white strip and just tie my amp wire to it?
if what he said did not work there is always the radio fuse for remote turn on just make sure it's on the fused side of the fuse and you can get fuse taps later on to make it look sweet any ways keep us filled in if it does not work
also if you have a cap make sure the amp is wired right for the cap i have seen amps wire backwards because of misread direction's what it could be doing is sending power up that remote turn on to (bad amp) screwing up the radio if it not back wards hooked up
