my amp drains my battery

[imallthatisman 10+ year member]

ok, i need a new way to hook up my amp. its too 2000 watts and it cant be hooked up directly to my stereo... therefor i have it hooked strait up to my battery. but my amplifire is always on. what else can i do besides put a "kill switch" on it?

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[buchel 10+ year member]

Hook it up with a remote turn on to you deck like it should have been in the first place...

~ Kyle ~

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

^^^^thats about it.

 

[imallthatisman 10+ year member]

my car doesnt have a remote wire i have every wire hooked up to my stereo

 

[the_flatlander 10+ year member]

is your stereo stock?

 

[imallthatisman 10+ year member]

no its a sony somthing ive had it in other cars and its worked fine because i have had a remote wire now i dont and i need to know what to do. I dont have one because someone had the jeep before me and took every wire to the stereo ive rewired it but there isnt a memory wire and i cant find a place for one

 

[lumpmoron2 10+ year member]

You might need a new HU wiring harness so you can fix the missing or jumbled up wiring. but you need a blue remote wire to run to your amp so it turns on when your HU does. sure you can ghetto rig a 12v remote kill switch to turn the amp on & off but again....ghetto..

 

[fantomas 10+ year member]

there is a wire that turns on when the car turns on (it tells the headunit, etc when to turn on). use that. be cautious about using the remote line..you might blow the relay on the headunit (depending on how many amperes your amplifier pulls for the REM)

 

[smullen 10+ year member]

no its a sony somthing ive had it in other cars and its worked fine because i have had a remote wire now i dont and i need to know what to do. I dont have one because someone had the jeep before me and took every wire to the stereo ive rewired it but there isnt a memory wire and i cant find a place for one

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Really though... I would either get a new Head Unit harness or go to radio shack and see if you can buy the stuff to make/fix yours with the Molex Connectors.

I have done this with a few old school amps and head units..

 

[Benny212 10+ year member]

a similar thing happened to a friend of mine, his remote wire was plugged in correctly but it just stopped working for some reason. You could use a switch, but that is pretty ghetto. One alternative that should work is using a fuse tap on the ignition fuse and using that as the remote wire. might want to check around to see if that would actually work seeing as my experience is rather small with **** like this

 

[mtech2 10+ year member]

Either way you go ....make sure to fuse your remote turn on lead with a SMALL fuse....Something around 1/2 amp....maybe even a 1/4amp. From the sounds of it you'll probably gonna need it, eventually.