i tried my first install and failed

[yne721 10+ year member]

and the sad thing is, i didn't even do it all myself. i had someone else run all the wires, so all i'd have to do is make my false bottom when i got home, and basically just hook up both amps and it would be good to go.

got home and didn't have any power going to either amp after i hooked it all up.

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[04_edge 10+ year member]

check fuses, grounds, remote power wire.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

were the fuses in? was the car on? it's kinda hard to f up.

 

[jj4475 10+ year member]

2k posts?

 

[Puppet Master 10+ year member]

ya this isn't a good sign for me then. I am gonna do my first install on tuesday :S....need to see good things, not this

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

were the fuses in? was the car on? it's kinda hard to f up.

fuses were all in, car was on. got power to my HU, but neither amp(one for speakers and one for sub) can you split the remote power lines? because only one was ran back, and i cut off the extra 5 feet of it, and then cut that in half, and made the single remote into a y, so i could run the remote to both amps..

2k posts?

almost all in the lounge. usually when i have questions about other stuff, i just search. on my first car, i had a shop install my stuff, but i didn't want to use my current car as a learning vehicle, due to the fact that A. it's worth too much to fuck up, and B. it's older and i'm starting from scratch, so it's not as easy as "take this speaker out and put the new one in" and such....

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

2k posts?

Means nothing. I've made over a hundred boxes/speakers/shit-gone-wrong now, but never had a system myself.

 

[Z71999 10+ year member]

come on guys honestly...its not that complicated lol

 

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

you got the power wire hooked up to the battery? buddy of mine put his system in, started freaking out and called me. everything was right except he didnt hook his power to his battery or his ground heh.

my guess is you prolly have a bad ground

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Means nothing. I've made over a hundred boxes/speakers/shit-gone-wrong now, but never had a system myself.

U've never had a system......wtf

 

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

check yer powerwire and make sure its hooked up on both ends. make sure your remote on wire is right on both ends. make sure you have a nice ground spot on clean metal.

after those, you should be good ???

 

[jj4475 10+ year member]

its a lie

 

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

U've never had a system......wtf

i literally said that out loud wheni read that heh. he knows too much for not having a system. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/graduate.gif.d982460be9f153bb54e5d4cb744f6ae8.gif

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

you got the power wire hooked up to the battery? buddy of mine put his system in, started freaking out and called me. everything was right except he didnt hook his power to his battery or his ground heh.

it looks like it's hooked on pretty securely.

ok here's the entire story.

had my Orion 600D and 12'' type R sitting in my garage from my mazda, decided "well i work for GM i finally have money to do my system in my beetle now" so i bought a 200x2 2 channel for a pair of CDT Components.

not wanting to screw anything up on my nice old car, which was an electrical nightmare when i got it but i'm starting to finally clear up now, i bought it to a shop, and just had them run the wires and install my HU(under the dash) because there was nowhere to put my amps yet as i was in the middle of taking out the backseat so i could build a false bottom over my battery and have more room to work with.(i drive a 79 superbeetle so space is hard to come by lol)

dropped my car off, told them not to touch anything that doesn't need to be touched electrical wise, as i was just finally clearing up the nightmare it was. went and picked it up when they were done, he told me everything is hooked up and to bring it back on monday(they were closed today) so he could hook up the amps after i built the false bottom. free of charge as i already paid them for a full install anyway.

so i said "it's just a matter of hooking up the power wires and ground wires and speakers right?" and he said yeah, so i told him i could do that myself, and i'd just do it after i made my false bottom. he said "this blue wire is the remote wire, so just split that and run it to each amp" and pointed out which wires were what just incase i was an idiot.

got home, hooked it all up, and amps didn't turn on. so instead of trying to problem solve, i just figured fuck it, i'll just bring it in on monday before work because i already paid for it, i might as well just have them do it so i don't **** anything up.

i paint cars, i don't work on them lol. i prefer not to get my hands too dirty. i'm a sissy lol

/long story.

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

ya's its really hard to phuck it up. Do this, get a really long run of say like 20AWG, and then hook one side of it up to ur battery postive, and the other side to the remote in on the amp. The amp should turn on at this point. If it didn't its not the remote line.

I'm messing with painting cars right now. Lotta stuff to learn. All that different types of paint, mix rations. Woh! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif