Amps wont turn on

[Konstantin 10+ year member]

I changed power wire and all connections and now my amps wont turn on.

My setup has a 1/0 wire running from the battery to a dblock and then 1 4awg wire to each amp. I just replaced the wires and now it wont work.

I have a dmm but I dont know how to use it to test if power is going around.

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[ArrizX 10+ year member]

Is it grouded properly?

And how does your fuse look?

Maybe your remote wire isnt put back in correctly.

 

[TIeclipseMOJO 10+ year member]

put your dmm on DC voltage. check the power at your amp. put the power lead on the power connection, and put the ground lead on something metal in the car (that is near the body/chassis) make sure you scratch through the paint. if you have power then move on, if you dont its probably your power wire (check connections and fuse). if you have power there, check your power wire the same way, but the ground at the terminal on the amp. if nothing then your amps ground isnt good (check location/paint and search our stickies). if thats good, then check your remote wire (was anything changed here?)

 

[Konstantin 10+ year member]

I didnt even touch the remote wire

I'll check the grounds tommorow.

 

[Konstantin 10+ year member]

Ok, I decided to replace the remote wire first and it made no difference so the grounds were probably the problem. I shaked the remote wires a little and everything started working. I think I need to tighten it a litte more (its in a difficult place to access).

Other then that, everything works fine....but there was a smell of something burning. Twice. Both times it was for like a minute. Its been a few days since the install and it didnt happend again, I am not sure if its the wires.

My wiring consists of a an inline fuse with a 200A fuse, 1/0 wire run up to a distro block from where I have 2 4gauge wire runs to, one to each amp. Then I have 4gauge wire to grounds as well. The distro block has one 60A and 80A fuse, as the amps requiere.

My only worry was joining different gauge remove wire. I had it done in a shop, so the wire from the radio was probably a gauge 18 but they didnt measure right and ended up the run with 2 feet of 22 gauge. I dont think its that important right?

Could the burn smell be from the cables? I did leave a small hole through the firewall that I need to patch up (where the 1/0 was run through). I couldnt locate the origin of the smell because it was very quick and dissipated immediatly.

Maybe I worry too much.

Aded an image because I was bored:

Yes, both grounds go to the same place, its a bolt under the seat that is directly connected to the chassis of the car.

 

[Konstantin 10+ year member]

bump?