Amp setting

[eus090474 10+ year member]

I have two amps, a 200 watt for door speakers and a 600 watt mono for my one 15" sub. I just put in the 600 and it doesn't work unless it is set to slave. The amps are not connected at all. Should it be that way? Prob not Im guessing so what do u think I did wrong? Will it hurt anything being set that way? Also, I have my sub wired in series.

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[eus090474 10+ year member]

also, I am getting very little volume out of the front speakers. When I change the gain on the amp nothing changes with the speakers. Any ideas????

PLEASE HELP

 

[eus090474 10+ year member]

Bump

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

How do you have the amps wired as far as the RCA's?

 

[eus090474 10+ year member]

there are two for the front and two for the rear that go into the smaller amp for the speakers then there is a set of them for the other one that powers the sub. Maybe I am misunderstanding the question sorry. Kind of new at this still.

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

Out of the HU how many sets(left and right/red and white) are there?

It sounds like you have a front and a rear set. The RCA's for the small door amp should get the front and the sub amp should get the rear set. If you have 3 sets, 2 for the front/rear and a sub then make sure the sub output goes to the sub amp.

 

[eus090474 10+ year member]

Sorry, yes, I have three sets out of the back of the HU. 1 for front, 1 for rear, and one for sub

 

[prcwitt 10+ year member]

on the mono amp how does it us its slave output? does it use dual RCA's, one RCA ,or another type of connection

 

[eus090474 10+ year member]

There is just one set of rca's in there. The slave setting is controlled by a switch. It is a Polk pa600.1 if it helps

 

[eus090474 10+ year member]

http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Item/Photos/Default.aspx?i=107PA6001&tp=115

 

[prcwitt 10+ year member]

have you tried moving the rca's? the amp should be on master and the rcas connected to the input

 

[eus090474 10+ year member]

The rca's are in the input. I have tried about all different configs and it only works this way. The other amp doesnt have a master/slave option either.

 

[prcwitt 10+ year member]

i guess as long as it works well it shouldn't do any damage