Alpine ERE-G160 Equilizer Wiring help

[Iktomi Zi Zi]

Hello, I have recently found my old (and I Mean old lol) Alpine ERE-G160 Equilizer and I wanted to hook it up. Why? you ask? Cuz i've only used it once and it works great. The problem is I don't know where the wiring harnesses are or the Owner's Manual. I've been searching online for hours trying to find a manual or what pins go to what. Could someone tell me the pinouts please? Thank you. I've already made my own Harnesses from some old ATX PC wire.

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[bjude1 10+ year member]

Call 1-800-Alpine1

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

Nice EQ. Sought after. I found the manual recently, a few days ago. I need to access my home PC and I will get you what you need.

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

This is your unit, correct?

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

pic of G160 harness

 

[Iktomi Zi Zi]

This is your unit, correct?

yep that is the one. I also used to have a phone just like the one you have in the background lol. Anyway, if you could just tell me the color codes and where the wires go and to what pin that would be awesome. That's all I need. I've figured out where the ground, +12, and remote pins are (cuz it says it on the board) but I have no clue about the speaker outputs. Thank you very much.

Oh and that pic you showed me from ebay, I've already seen and that's what I used to figure out the correct pin positions of the power, ground, etc.

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

Glad you've done similar research so far. Not my pic, nor my hand //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif. I don't have one anymore. Used to.

Note that a DMM can get you the speaker negative outputs, they'll be tied together as a common ground. How many pins do you have total? You'll either have 8, 6, or 5 speaker output depending on how they did the common. Back then, it was common to have a common speaker ground for front/rear or all. Make sense? once you figure out the common, you could simply power up and use the fader and balance to narrow down the speaker positive pins. I understand the desire to get the speaker wire colors right the first time. Hopefully using industry standard wire colors. I will see what I can dig up.

 

[Iktomi Zi Zi]

Glad you've done similar research so far. Not my pic, nor my hand //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif. I don't have one anymore. Used to.
Note that a DMM can get you the speaker negative outputs, they'll be tied together as a common ground. How many pins do you have total? You'll either have 8, 6, or 5 speaker output depending on how they did the common. Back then, it was common to have a common speaker ground for front/rear or all. Make sense? once you figure out the common, you could simply power up and use the fader and balance to narrow down the speaker positive pins. I understand the desire to get the speaker wire colors right the first time. Hopefully using industry standard wire colors. I will see what I can dig up.

Yea I'm trying to see if I can find a DMM. It has 10 pins for the output. Looking at the back of the EQ at the pins it has 5 upper and 5 lower. Reading from left to right, pin 1: Remote, pin 2: Ground, pin 3: ?, pin 4: front left +, pin 5: front right +, pin 6: +12v, pin 7: not used, pin 8: ?, pin 9: front left -, pin 10: front right: -.

As far as pins 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10; I do not know exactly what these are. I am going by conjecture and common speaker/pin placement. I have it hooked up and it seems that I am correct for the upper right at least either that or it's bridging lol. But it doesn't matter which ones are front or rear per se. As long as the speaker + and - are in the correct positions and the left and right are correct.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. i've searched for hours and now days for the correct combo with no luck. But I'm sure it's out there somewhere. As old as the EQ is, I'm sure someone has put it out there somewhere.

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!!!! lol, I got the diagram for the hook up and wire color coding. Altho it says that the G160 is a 9 pin tri layered instead of the 10 pin double layer. Oh well, either way it works. I got it from Alpine after calling customer service. Thanx to Alpine. He also sent me the specs on it. So it's probably the user manual altho it's only 2 pages he sent me of it, but he most important lol. But here ya go. Now everyone that needs it can get it instead of searching for days and hours.

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

thanks for the update! I've requested old diagrams from Alpine before and gotten a response. they are helpful and why I keep going back to their products.

 

[Iktomi Zi Zi]

Okay Ive figure out what the pinouts are. Reading from left to right with back of EQ facing you.

1. Remote 2. Ground 3. FL + 4. FR+ 5. RL+

6. 12v Battery 7. Not Used 8. Left Common 9. Right Common 10. RR +

So here you go. Enjoy.

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

Thanks!