Recent content by da_guitarist

So I spoke with an electrical engineer who worked with Bose. They have differential signals, unlike most speaker wire signals. He suggests by inputing the differential load (with a floating ground), there was probably a point in which the reference voltage (+) compared to the ground was way high...

I installed it and tried a few things. The rear speakers in my car work now. But the amp still shows the protection mode. I checked the voltage on the RCA plugs coming out of the hi-low LOC converter and it shows no voltage on any output (i tried all 4 outputs in case they were labeled wrong)...

I bought one...it can be used several ways. I need to do line out, high to low, correct?

Haha...funny guy. it's old man! c'mon i'm on a budget. grad student here...

Where can I get a good LOC? Radioshack has a $17 one, and wal mart has a $15 or so one. Are the $5-10 ones on eBay any good? I don't want to spend over $20. Does this present a problem? Thanks!

I have a 99 Mercedes CLK430. It has a factory Bose system. I installed an Alpine R 12 and a Power Acoustik A2100D mono amp. As for wiring, here's what I did: New Amp: -Power/fuse from + battery term (4 gage, 80 amp fuse) -Ground to bolt that battery is grounded to (4 gage) -Remote from...