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Alt whine / ground loop from hell...
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<blockquote data-quote="Ground_Pounder" data-source="post: 6564567" data-attributes="member: 613117"><p>I had this same problem and it drove me so nuts that I stripped everything out of my car and started over. I replaced everything.</p><p></p><p>1.) I put a couple new 0 guage grounds on my main battery and from the block to the chasis.</p><p></p><p>2.) I ran RCA's and speaker wire on one side of my car and power/remote wire on the other side of my car.</p><p></p><p>3.) I switched from fuses to circuit breakers.</p><p></p><p>4.) I took a power drill and made fresh holes for grounds on all my amplifiers and used a bolt with a nut and lock washer. I then stripped every piece of paint off of the metal surface and I made that area extra large to make sure no paint comes into contact with the terminal.</p><p></p><p>5.) I used wire reduces to put larger 0 gauge wire on the subwoofer amps and gave each amplifier its own ground instead of having them share ground spots.</p><p></p><p>6.) I re-grounded my trunk batteries.</p><p></p><p>I believe its more of a ground issues than anything else. I had 23 seperate grounds that needed to be done the right way. I wouldn't ground the amps at the battery because they are like repositories for noise. I have no problems anymore and it took me a whole **** day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ground_Pounder, post: 6564567, member: 613117"] I had this same problem and it drove me so nuts that I stripped everything out of my car and started over. I replaced everything. 1.) I put a couple new 0 guage grounds on my main battery and from the block to the chasis. 2.) I ran RCA's and speaker wire on one side of my car and power/remote wire on the other side of my car. 3.) I switched from fuses to circuit breakers. 4.) I took a power drill and made fresh holes for grounds on all my amplifiers and used a bolt with a nut and lock washer. I then stripped every piece of paint off of the metal surface and I made that area extra large to make sure no paint comes into contact with the terminal. 5.) I used wire reduces to put larger 0 gauge wire on the subwoofer amps and gave each amplifier its own ground instead of having them share ground spots. 6.) I re-grounded my trunk batteries. I believe its more of a ground issues than anything else. I had 23 seperate grounds that needed to be done the right way. I wouldn't ground the amps at the battery because they are like repositories for noise. I have no problems anymore and it took me a whole **** day. [/QUOTE]
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