A girl doing a guys job...help! Amp not working and now stereo too!

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

If u can get a dmm it will makes things easier even the cheap ones from walmart will do

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

^^^ my $10 one does the job...

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

Holy ****! Clean up those wires on the terminals before you catch something on fire! Get some Spade Connectors for those wires to fit into the terminals bare wire like that = bad news.

Ok commence the trolling.

 

[pickup1 5,000+ posts]

4 pages and not one pic of the op....

 

[Robert 2001 10+ year member]

Find you. a dmm for testing. Get some good #8 wire for power and grounds as a true 400 watt amp should have around 40 amp fuse. Its possible u burnt the wire your using as it looks pretty small youll need a dmm to find out. Test the voltage at the amp both with and without a load on the amp. Verify signal voltage to subs and ohm loads. Gl

 

[SMFJ 10+ year member]

You may have better luck trying to power sub off the headunit. Those American Pro amps literally don't look like they have more power than a headunit.
And be sure that you don't have a loose battery terminal or have it wired into the incorrect factory wires.

Don't doubt the American Pro as a beginner amp. Mine pushed my hifonics 12s pretty hard before I burned it up from running at bridged at 1 ohm. Lol. That first system bring back so many memories. I actually thought I was pounding.

X2 on the grounds. I'd also recommend upgrading battery and engine grounds in the front.

 

[TheUnderFighter 10+ year member]

Yea, you gotta get some 8 gauge wire on there. That looks like 12 gauge wire or something, way too small >.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Alright before this goes any further. Im going to remind all of the older members here there is no trolling outside of the Dome. Consider this your first and only warning.

 

[ahole-ic]

Oh I thought this thread was about licking vajines.....

clean up wiring. Make sure grounds are good.

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

my bad! that was very rude of me.please accept my apology.sorry

 

[MikePresJr]

Did you check the fuses? Any weird smells? do the sub/speakers work plugged into any other outputs? Does the deck work sans amplifier? Is your inline fuse blown?

 

[dbjunior 10+ year member]

Try a different source if you get another set of rcas and hookup an iPod or something to the amp and get no sound the amp is bad. If it work's it's either your rcas or headunit

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

You can go to harbor freight and get a red DMM for 3 dollars. Works fine for basic car audio use.. Go to walmart and buy 3.5mm aux jack to RCA wire adaptor and that will plug into the amps RCA's and the other end will plug into an Ipod headphone jack. You can test signal with that.. If it doesn't work that way, It is surely the amp. Get 8g Power wire from the battery to the amp and an 8G ground if you dont have one already. If it doesn't work then, your amp is shot.

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

Also, get a small piece of wire and bridge the remote terminal to the positive batt. terminal. This will keep the amp on nomatter what during testing. It eliminates the head unit's remote amplifier function so it helps diagnose amplifier failure.

 

[Falcons 5,000+ posts]

still dont know if this is legit or not. lol