Noob needs a lot of help

You have nice equipment. Kinda sad to see it not at its full potential. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif
Like said' date=' The red plugs are RCA's. You can get a whole new set of them for ~15$ or so.

Or, you could take the plugs from the "non-functioning" amp and plug them into the "functioning" amp. The signal is coming from the same source. So shouldn't make a difference.

If you can find someone local to help fix the broken amp, and it really isn't major surgery, it could be around 20$. To ship it to JL, I'd estimate 30$ shipping round trip plus whatever they charge you.

Best of luck.[/quote']

I would love to look for help locally but I am not sure how. I would definitely be pretty cautious meeting someone online with all this equipment and my car. Like I said I would like to learn how to do some things myself. I have never been happy relying on an audio shop to do my work. I really dislike going to them actually. I would like to make these repairs some type of on going weekend project for however long it takes. Also I suppose I made my money situation sound worse than it is. I can afford around 50 bucks to get this stuff working. I just think any type of repair work done by a shop would surely be out of my range.

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The RCA's on the "non-working" amp are yellow //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
RCA's come in many different colors. But they all do the same thing. Put the Yellow wires into the spots that the red wires were in' date=' and see if you get your "working amp" up and running again while you try to get the other repaired.[/quote']

That is exactly the type of info I need. I am that new that I did not even know that I will try that tomorrow morning. This should hold me over until I can hopefully learn how to tackle the input problem. Once I do that I just need to learn how to run the new RCAs to the amp that will no longer have them and then all should be good.

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This shows what wires go where on that amp.

The Yellow wires on the working amp are in the output section. The input section is what broke' date=' needs to be replaced by the other yellow wires, or by new RCA's.

It's quite hard to know how everything is hooked up from a few pics. But these are my best guesses without being able to get my hands on it and trace the wires to source, ends.[/quote']

Every answer brings new questions. I know you can't tell me for sure but where do the output wires possibly go to? Why doesn't the broken amp have any output wires?

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OP, you need to take everything out of the car and go from there. If the broken amp can be repaired for a reasonable price, that's cool. If it turns out to be an expensive repair, you should use the functioning amplifier to power one of those w7's. You could then sell the other w7 & the damaged amplifier. They're worth enough that selling them would be beneficial. You could use the cash to upgrade your front stage with a pair of budget components and a nice little 2 channel amp. Then you could have everything reinstalled by someone with a little knowledge.
There's no shame in running a single subwoofer...and adding some amplified components would make your system a hell of a lot nicer. That's what I'd do if I was dealing with this situation myself.

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Yeah' date=' that'd be my guess too.[/quote']
So if this is the case switching the good ones to the good amp will accomplish nothing? Well I have been living with this problem for upwards of at least a year and a half. I suppose now is as good as any time to take this opportunity to learn something. I will see what I can get done tomorrow and possibly post some pictures of the inside of the amp. I will try to look at all of this as a positive experience and go one step at a time.

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