Help!!! Just installed my RL-P, something is very wrong!!!

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I agree.
Check that master/slave switch lol!

Master is on.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

So it's moving with no sound... Box...

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Just for reference,
Does it look like this?

Or a little more like this?

I had to figure this one out for a kid a while ago. The RF is right but its also midleading I find. If you really dont know anything you my jump a - to a +, instead of criss crossing them, and going + to a +.

Its the first one. I'm 99% sure i wired the sub coils in correctly though. Although there could be another wiring issue deep in the car somewhere which would absolutely ****. Im gonna go and switch around the power cords, as well as take a pic of the amp switches, than ill post back here. HOpefully i can fix this thing today and not have to bring it to a shop. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

So it's moving with no sound... Box...

not at all the problem. It sounds pretty good, but only if i crank the gain up very very high, and even at that level it doesn't sound like its getting even half of the 1200 watts.

 

[zachzchw 5,000+ posts]

use the two terminals (+ and - ) farthest from the edge of the amp. closest to the middle. if u get what im saying. thats what im doin and it works awsome.

That wont matter.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

That wont matter.

yeah, i switched them all around and it didn't do anything. Im just thinking that maybe I need to be using all 4 terminals and not just 2 of them? Instead of just using 2 terminals and splitting each wire into two like i am now?

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

Just use on + and one - on your amp. Take the sub out of the box and make sure it is wired like the pictures show above. Take pics of your amp so everyone can see what it is set too, read the gain setting tutorial and set it up again just incase you missed something the first time.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Just for reference,
Does it look like this?

Or a little more like this?

I had to figure this one out for a kid a while ago. The RF is right but its also midleading I find. If you really dont know anything you my jump a - to a +, instead of criss crossing them, and going + to a +.

can you explain to me what the difference between those two are? Both look identical to me now that i am looking closer. I definately kept the polarity though.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

well im off to my friends house to try to figure out what the problem is, ill post an update once i get back.

 

[blackgeltabs 5,000+ posts]

What you want to do is just what the JL one shows. Connect both the red coils together then connect both the black ones then pull a lead to the box terminal.

With the RF one ive seen people put the red post and a black post together and use one side as red and do the same to the other and use it as negitive. If you look at the RF one you maybe able to see how some one got confused. Instead of actually knowing how to wire parallel they just folowed the schematic.

Your wires should criss cross like in the JL pic. R to R, B to B, then a lead off each to the amp

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

if all fails, take it to a 'good' shop.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

What you want to do is just what the JL one shows. Connect both the red coils together then connect both the black ones then pull a lead to the box terminal.
With the RF one ive seen people put the red post and a black post together and use one side as red and do the same to the other and use it as negitive. If you look at the RF one you maybe able to see how some one got confused. Instead of actually knowing how to wire parallel they just folowed the schematic.

Your wires should criss cross like in the JL pic. R to R, B to B, then a lead off each to the amp

Well, thats basically what i have now. I have one wire going to the negative, then another wire soldered to that one going to the other negative, than the same with the positives. Except i basically have 2 big wires, the two negative wires and 2 positives are connected to eachother at the ends via solder. Do you mean im supposed to just wire the voice coils together with separate wire, than send the two main wires from the terminal to them? Becuase both scenarios sound like the same thing pretty much to me though.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

if all fails, take it to a 'good' shop.

My buddy on friday is gonna take a look at it. SHop is always last resort though. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I have off work until monday, so my mission until then is to get this thing working correctly.

 

[Silver 10+ year member]

I thought the nine.1 was a mono sub amp. why would it have two sets of +'s and -'s