installed new RF amp for door speakers, whirring/clicking sounds

[na96ek 10+ year member]

any other ideas or a direction?

 

[na96ek 10+ year member]

Has anyone else experienced my problem and had a solution? It seems people are having issues with RCA's not being grounded but I am running a Line output converter off of my factory HU... I dont really have money to be spending trying a bunch of fixes that arent going to work.... I planned on doing the big 3 upgrade soon, could that have any impact?

 

[germ.sws 10+ year member]

why not buy a cheap head unit off craigslist and running the setup without the LOC. i am sure you could find and older head unit for less than $50. it will have the correct remote wire and rca hookups.

another thought, have you redone your ground to a different location? personally, i prefer to drill a hole in my spare tirewell and sand it down to bare metal then i use a bolt, nut, and washer through to attach the ground wire.

 

[na96ek 10+ year member]

another thought, have you redone your ground to a different location? personally, i prefer to drill a hole in my spare tirewell and sand it down to bare metal then i use a bolt, nut, and washer through to attach the ground wire.

Thats actually exactly how I have my grounds done. My amps are mounted on a 3/4" mdf board in my spare tire well. The grounds are drilled directly into the metal and paint was smoothed away with a dremel with bolts going through the floor board secured with nuts underneath the vehicle... I havent overlooked anything on this install thats why im so frustrated.

Also I plan on upgrading to an aftermarket HU soon, but the reason I havent yet is that on my particular car (2000 Honda CR-V), the keyles entry/alarm system is integrated into the factory HU. If I remove it, i lose my alarm and keyless entry. Not a big deal because I plan to install an aftermarket alarm when I get my aftermarket HU, its just too much money right now and why waste even $50 on a used/low grade HU when ill be upgrading soon anyways hopefully. Its just a mess at the moment and im certain there something I can do to solve this without installing an aftermarket HU, if i could only pinpoint the culprit...

 

[na96ek 10+ year member]

Okay, so today I decided to try and do the big 3 in hopes to help with this interference. Went down to battery warehouse and bought some 1/0 awg for $4/ft. and had some lugs soldered on after telling him the lengths I needed. Wires came out beautiful, all $32 worth of cable, $25 worth of terminals, and a $25 inline fuse later. NOW THE WHINING IS EVEN LOUDER!!

I obviously am flowing more current, allowing the interference to be picked up on and amplified even more so.... wth can I do, I am about tapped out of funds for a while

 

[winkychevelle 10+ year member]

Try taking the grounds on the loc and grounding them to the vehicle chassis. Sound like you tied them into the speaker wires which may be the cause of this. I generally don't event use the grounds on the loc unless it's an expensive one that's needs a 12 power supply for remote turnon. Then the ground Is nessecary to complete the 12v circuit

 

[na96ek 10+ year member]

you know, thats funny you should make that reccomendation because while I was at work today thinking about a solution to this, I actually debated wether or not that was something I could do... Okay, so let me get this straight.

I have 6 wires coming off of my LOC, a + and two -'s for each speaker/side. Are you saying to use one positive and one negative for the speaker and take each of the extra negatives and ground them to the chassis? or just ground all 4 of the negatives to chassis and not even hook up to the neg. speaker terminal?

im really glad you suggested this

 

[winkychevelle 10+ year member]

two of those six wires are normally ground wires, normally brown in color, im not sure bout that partcular model but thats how the pac tis set up

+- ground ground +- are the wires normally

 

[na96ek 10+ year member]

That was it!!! Thanks a ton man, I knew there was a stupid fix for this

 

[winkychevelle 10+ year member]

no problem