couple of problems

SouthPole1989 · 01-18-2007, 12:17 PM

ok so last night i hooked up my amp. it all worked worked good. but untill my 0 guage wire comes in for my big 3 upgrade i only hooked up one to my amp in series. which gave me 500 rms for my alpine type r. now last nightthe sub stoped doing anything. since it was at work i just hooked up the other sub and went home. now though when the sub stopped it was onlyat 25 out of 62 in the volume. now my other thing is when i ran the power wire through my firewall i used a wooden skewer to see where each exsiting hole went to. and in one hole i hit a wire but it looked like it did nothing but now my left speakers don;t work. only occasional will they play. witch would mean to me that is a connection porblem. now i will be willing to rewire my left wide speakers if i have too. but i want to aim not to.

DSeiber83 · 01-23-2007, 11:34 PM

Most likely a short in the power or a loose ground ( i had this problem before, wasnt getting a solid enough contact, would shut off now n then and annoy the heck outta me when driving). If you want to check the speakers real fast to make sure something funky hasnt happened to them, take a battery from an electric screwdriver/drill and run some wire from the metal terminals to the speaker terminals, if the speakers good itll make a dull pop sound. It wont hurt the speaker, not enough power, just enough to make a sound.

SouthPole1989 · 01-24-2007, 12:10 AM

i don't totally get it. the only thing audio that is grounded are the hu and amp, you don't ground speakers. and i followed Satyllac guide running my rca through the center console and my power by the driver side door. now i did noticed that my luck ran the power wire through a bar that had a hole in it. but the power wire has like a 1/8th of an inch of insulation around it.

Satyllac · 01-24-2007, 01:48 PM

So...

1.) The sub stops working intermittently, but the speakers play normal all the time?

2.) Are you completely sure that the three mandatory connections on your amplifier are solid? Ground, power, and remote?

3.) Is the amplifier showing any signs of abuse when it shuts off? Examples being an "Overcurrent", "Impedance", or "Thermal" warning lighting up.

4.) Impedance: What is your amplifier stable to? What do you have it wired to?

Explain the problem a bit better and you'll receive the answers you seek.

SouthPole1989 · 01-24-2007, 07:33 PM

it's not the amp. the subs work/play fine it is my driver side front speaker that will sound like pure ass when bass hit.

right now i have 1 sub hooked up to the amp in series. it is a dvc 2 ohm sub. sothe amp is seeing a 4 ohm load. the amp is stable down to 2 ohm.

my amp only got a little warm when i had it blasted for like 2 hours with the windows up and no a/c on.

now the ground is the only one that i might not be sure it is the best spot cause the ring was to small for where i wanted to orginaly put it. (i orginaly wanted to use the middle seatbelt bolts. i have the ground now on the tire well area. (when you put down your seats go on the driver side and pull back the grey carpet before the rear deck and that is where i have it grounded. [ and yes i sanded it downed.]

but is it just possable that i blew the woofer and not the tweeter for the speaker? since it only does it for bass.

DSeiber83 · 01-26-2007, 02:52 PM

Now I'm scratching my head a little. Do you have your normal speakers (non- sub) running form an amp? If they are, then it could be possible to have popped the woofer part of the speaker w/o affecting the mid- high ranges, assuming that you don't have or didn't set the high-pass filter on the amp, seeing as how usually (atleast what i'm used to) is that RCA channels on stereos dont use the filter built into the deck. Additionally, if your normal speakers aren't amped, it might be worth looking at the head unit to see if your RCA channel runs on front or rear or a neutral channel. It's possibly the eq settings you use to turn up the bass could be affecting the speaker, but most likely aren't.

As far as connecting the ground, I don't know what kinda car you drive but on my SL I used the bolt mounts for the trunk itself. It's probably not as clean-looking as the seatbelt bolts that you said, but its right to the frame and worked well for me.