n00b here - issues with wiring =|

[thetonestarr]

I drive a '93 Chevy Cavalier sedan. Bit old, but eh, it was free when my much newer car died. It came with a Kenwood KDC-132 stereo in it.

I'm wiring in a Dual XIA2460 amp (two-channel 460 amps). I bought a wiring kit (Scosche, up to 680 amps), hooked it all up right, as far as I could tell. Blue remote wire went to the red "ignition" wire connected from the car to the stereo... that's right, right?

I powered it on, and the RDO2 fuse (10A, powers the car stereo) blew. I disconnected the blue remote wire, replaced the fuse, and the stereo worked again. Turned it all off, reconnected remote wire, powered it back on and the fuse blew again.

As far as I can tell, there are no exposed wires. I guess the amp is just trying to draw too much from that remote wire and the 10A fuse can't handle the increased draw.

So, my question is... do any of you guys know anything that I can do to fix this? Perhaps any known kinks involved with one of my components, and a workaround? Or what's up? I'm going to be asking the guy I got the amp from later about it, hopefully he'll know something, but I mean, if you guys can help out, that'd be sweet.

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[bigaudiofanati2 10+ year member]

If you have an aftermarket head unit the blur wire goes to the blue and white wire on the head unit. Also is your ground wire attached to a clean piece of metal.

 

[thetonestarr]

I looked in the manual for my stereo.

Y/N? I'm just covering all bases, making absolutely sure before I go at it again.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Do this.

 

[thetonestarr]

Yep, did that. Fuse isn't blowing, but the amp isn't powering up now. May be a faulty ground preventing it from powering up, or it could be a bad amp. I'm going to pull out my old amp and see if I can't get it working, and if that doesn't do it, I'll try out a different ground location.

It could also turn out that the stereo just isn't sending a signal, too, but that's an easy fix too - I plan on switching stereos with my wife's (which is really mine) tomorrow.