I have no idea; help would be greatly appreciated

[STi305]

Hey everybody,

First, i would like to say that i have searched the forums; problem is i dont know what im searching for though.

That being said. Ive had my Alpine cda-9883 connected for the last few months. that is connected to some pioneer amp that was installed in the car before i got it; all my speakers are running off of that. now, ive got my audiobahn a16000v amp and my aw1205n sub sitting in a sealed box. ran the ground and power and all that for my new amp. connected that, connected the rca's, connected the sub. turned on my car. speakers are working just fine, just no sub. stupid me, i forgot the remote on. okay, no problem, i connect that too; and my new amp with its shiney blue ledds lights up, voltage is good around 10-12 volts. now however, i have no sound at all, no speakers.

my amp is still on, at least the new one; old amp doesnt have any led indicator or anything. ive tried disconnecting the new amp, but still no sound. fuses are all good. fuse on the head unit is good, fuse on both the amps are good, ground is pretty good ( okay, hoestly i need a better ground, but its been working and my new amp is grounded in the same place) .

okay thats enough of that. any help at all would be freakin sweet.

Carl

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[STi305]

oh ps, i hit the little reset button on the deck just for good measure too....

thanks a lot for any and all help

 

[SPL140.2 5,000+ posts]

did you set the gains?

egg

 

[casper97ta 10+ year member]

Well Lets try a few things. First 10 or 11v is not good for any amp. I would find a new solid ground point and also re-wire the pioneer amp yourself so you know the wires are good. Also, if you have no sound you might have a RCA problem. double check all your wiring.

 

[STi305]

Thanks for the insanely quick replies.

Firstly, what voltage is a good voltage for my amp to be hangin around?

I know the pioneer amp is wired good because one, i just had to rerun the new RCA for the new amp, and i ran it along the same path as all the other wiring that was in place with the pioneer. i guess im just really curious how it would work, then just stop? i mean, ive reverted back to a setup that was working literally 45 minutes ago ya know? at any rate, im stationed overseas and its getting late, but tomorrow at lunch im going to set up a better ground for the new amp. any other possibilities??

Thank you all sooo much

Carl

 

[azeroth123 10+ year member]

usually 12-14.5 or so is decent, yeah its never a good thing if you go back to how something was working and now it doesn't... i guess you have to try to isolate the problem, where are you getting the sub signal from? Maybe you messed up the pioneer remote when adding the remote to the sub amp?

 

[STi305]

sub signal is comming from the deck, rca outs... thats what your asking right? then bboth of the remotes are connected together with the lead from the deck. they are both like the little crappy little wire thats attached to RCA cables.