Amp is squealing like a pig on startup!

[WiCKeD 5.9L 10+ year member]

Well I have already made a few mistakes on this install and the biggest was probably having someone else do the wiring. I am error prone and was not real big on the idea of melting my car down to slag (although with gas prices right now, I might get better mileage...), but after seeing how easy it was, this is something I should have done myself.

Now when I turn on the car, the amp squeals at me for about 30 seconds before stopping/turning off(?). Seems to have stopped doing this, once I turned down the gains. It will still do this when I disconnect the battery. But bottom line, I do not think the amp is on when the car starts as I am getting no other output through the speakers.

Car is a '98 Grand Cherokee. Amp is a 4-channel Kicker KX850.4. Crossovers are probably at defaults. Stock headunit was wired inline, outputting to a mini-plug adapter. Music provided by a car computer with RCAs going to the amp. PC is definitely not the problem.

Sorry guys, it is not that I do not want to learn more about installation, it is really just that I do not have the freaking time. Molding in an LCD to my dash, extending the 19 tiny *** wires of my A/C control, fabbing a custom box for a minipc and dealing with the thousand little headaches of getting the computer set up really are ******* away any available free time I have.

Help my car make sweet music again!

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[WiCKeD 5.9L 10+ year member]

Scratch that. It is some sort of error from the Stinger distro block. Read the troubleshooting on the amp and it is definitely not turning on.

Still NFC what the problem is, though.

 

[mikescanlon 10+ year member]

ground your RCA.. just take the metal part that is like the outer ring.. the colar so to say.. and ground it to the chassis with a piece of wire.. if the noise goes away, tape it on and call it a day : )