My system isn't working anymore?

[xander37 10+ year member]

Here are pictures of my fuse boxes from the owners manual. Could someone help me out by telling me which one of these correlates to the power of my amp and subs? My head unit is fine. Honestly I don't understand how this has anything to do with it, because I'm getting power to my amp through the power wire, I checked that and it came up as good (unless I did it wrong [first time using a multimeter]) but here it is.

Under hood fuse box

Glove box fuse box

I've more pictures if you need any more information.

 

[cyn 10+ year member]

Do you have an INLINE fuse from the wire you ran from the battery to the amp?

 

[myjaja 10+ year member]

I have a regular old analog multimeter, would that suffice? I'm new to all of this stuff including electronics. I checked my remote wire by switching the multimeter to what looked like the symbol for ohms and measured it at x1k and it said it was good. Then I checked my power wire, it didn't register at x1k so I switched it to x10 and it read positive as well. Did I do this correctly? How would I measure whether or not the fuse is good? What setting do I dial it to? Sorry for all the questions I'm just lost and frustrated right now.
EDIT: Also do you know what the fuse I would be looking for is called? aux input fuse?

Take your dmm and open your hood with your car radio on. Check the voltage at your battery terminals and then go all the way back to your amp and check the voltage off your ground and power wire in the amp. If the car is off, it should read along the lines of 12 volts. They should both match up . Also check the voltage of your remote wire as well. Just touch the dmms positive wire on the remote wire and get the negative wire and just ground it somewhere and see what that reads.

also, switch the dmm to volts

 

[xander37 10+ year member]

Do you have an INLINE fuse from the wire you ran from the battery to the amp?

If you're talking about this,

then yes. It's hooked up properly as well.

 

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Take your dmm and open your hood with your car radio on. Check the voltage at your battery terminals and then go all the way back to your amp and check the voltage off your ground and power wire in the amp. If the car is off, it should read along the lines of 12 volts. They should both match up . Also check the voltage of your remote wire as well. Just touch the dmms positive wire on the remote wire and get the negative wire and just ground it somewhere and see what that reads.
also, switch the dmm to volts

Alright, I'll try to do what you just said. I don't know if it be accomplished with this cheap analog multi meter because the choices for volts go from 10, 50, 250,300 max. I wish I had bought the digital reader instead //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif.

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

it prolly the fuse in your pic above ,need to see in the voltage is running thru the fuse.check it on both sides of the fuse for 12 volts or more

 

[kramer_212 10+ year member]

sounds like the inline power fuse. or double check your ground.

 

[cyn 10+ year member]

If you're talking about this,

then yes. It's hooked up properly as well.

 

 

 

 

yea was talking about it... guess i overlooked where you said you checked the fuse in it.

 

[b.haley 10+ year member]

where you at in louisville? maybe if your close i can help

 

[musical_high 10+ year member]

Analog is fine if unit works. fractions of a volt shouldn't be necessary. I'd check the the fuses under the hood too. If you want to know what they go to, pull them and try to turn stuff on. I don't know if this can hurt your stuff... but I've done it plenty albeit without much to lose. Just leave the relays alone.

 

[globalminds_ent 10+ year member]

I wouldn't get too frustrated if I was u ,check all your connections even speaker wire to the box may have come out ,if it was working last night its probably something simple

 

[Falcons 5,000+ posts]

I wouldn't get too frustrated if I was u ,check all your connections even speaker wire to the box may have come out ,if it was working last night its probably something simple

first informative thing ive heard you say all day. lol

 

[rc10mike 10+ year member]

Sounds like something went wrong and you may need to fix it.

 

[xander37 10+ year member]

Sounds like something went wrong and you may need to fix it.

You must be a higher ranking officer than captain obvious.

 

[xander37 10+ year member]

I'm fed up with this bullshi t. I can't figure it out. Everything has been checked with the multimeter and has power, I've checked all the wires, checked the fuses, and now I've exhausted all of my resources. I've been working on it for 5 days straight in my free time and nothing has come of it. Time to take it to roberts audio or best buy.

 

[cyn 10+ year member]

Xander... try this remove everything out of the car... amps , radio , wire that you installed... start over from step 1.

running all wiring (without hooking it up)

hookup the radio

hookup the ground wires making sure everything is clean and secured tightly

hookup all the rca's and other speaker wires

hookup the powerwire from the battery to the amp with the fuse removed

hookup the remote amp wire

make sure everything is completely tight and secured.

put the fuse in and check it then... sometimes its easier and faster to start over and go slowly than to work backwards. If this doesn't work then i would take it to someone else.