Recent content by Trem

Gotcha. Will try to open it up sometime this week and have a look. Would be one more clue to the puzzle. Thanks again @audiobaun

Really appreciate the review and the input. I've put everything (paneling) back together for now, got pretty frustrated with it, but as soon as I have time, I'll pull everything back apart and check. I should have just grabbed a spare length of wire and checked harness continuity, end to end on...

I think this reply may have gone to the wrong thread.

K, so the Amp does not smoke with just power/ground connected. I unfortunately don't have a way to isolate the PnP harness from the LOC, as the one powers the other. I did think to change out the RCA's this time, to eliminate that variable, to no avail. With different RCAs from LOC to amp, and...

I didn't try without the LOC, no. I do still have the failed amp though, prior to return, that I guess I can do some troubleshooting with. Wouldn't be able to hear any tonal indicators, but would just watch for smoke. I will hook up today, with just power/ground, and proceed to connect more, and...

Well, just smoked a second amp. As soon as I turned the ignition, heard a low pitch tone, couldn't turn volume up from zero for some reason, and I disconnected the power wire as fast as I could, but amp was already smoking. Very frustrated.... At this point, I'm quite sure of my wiring logic...

Was hoping that would be the smoking gun, for smoking amp. K, thanks @1aespinoza

Pulling around on the other connector wires, a second one just effortlessly pulled out also, to the other channel, meaning the other/second channel had a spotty negative connection. (Would I be able to pull those connector pins out with needlenose, to get wires properly crimped in?)

So, I just went out to install the replacement amp, and figured I'd check all visible connections one more time beforehand. Found one of the speaker wires disconnected/pulled loose from the PnP harness connector that leads to the LC2i. In other words, of the two channels leading to the LOC, one...

Again, really appreciate all of the time spent. It is OEM, yep, in '22 F150. I've been over all of this in head and on paper a million times, and seems like everything should be correct. Just hate to repeat the attempt, as I realize the odds are that I've done something wrong vs manufacturing...

My bad. No, the front channel wires on the PnP were also snipped and taped. So all speaker signal going to truck-side PnP harness connector comes from the speedwire/amp.

(Amp power/ground not pictured)

Apologies for the poor terminology. What I meant erroneously by T'd, is that two wires were landed for the rear channels in the slot at the deck-side adapter on the PnP harness. One set of these went to the LC2i, and one set went to the truck-side adapter. I cut and taped off the latter...

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Sorry to bring up an old thread, but have finally had a chance to test everythung with multimeter, with a new amp ready to go. Checked each speaker at amp connection (ie speed wire), between + and -, and each reads ~4 ohms (front 6x9's are slightly different than rear 6.5). Checked all eight...