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<blockquote data-quote="Steven" data-source="post: 71692" data-attributes="member: 544311"><p>First check your power, remote, and ground wires.</p><p></p><p>Make sure that the ground cable is at least as big as your main power wire.</p><p></p><p>Make sure that the main power wire is the right gauge in your case I'd use 10ga</p><p></p><p>MIN. Also make sure that you ran your main power wire directly to the battery. I have seen people (you might not have done this, but it's a warning) try to pull the main power off of things like the decks constant, or the cigarette lighter, the wires for these devices cannot carry the power needed to run an amp over about 50 watts.</p><p></p><p>You said that you had a factory deck, I presume it doesn't have pre-outs, so you are probably using the wires from the rear speakers to feed signal to yer amp. Make sure that your are usig the high-level inputs and not the low level. If your amp doesn't have High level inputs then you'll have to go to a shop and buy a LOC (Line-Out Converter). This will convert your speaker level inputs into low level inputs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steven, post: 71692, member: 544311"] First check your power, remote, and ground wires. Make sure that the ground cable is at least as big as your main power wire. Make sure that the main power wire is the right gauge in your case I'd use 10ga MIN. Also make sure that you ran your main power wire directly to the battery. I have seen people (you might not have done this, but it's a warning) try to pull the main power off of things like the decks constant, or the cigarette lighter, the wires for these devices cannot carry the power needed to run an amp over about 50 watts. You said that you had a factory deck, I presume it doesn't have pre-outs, so you are probably using the wires from the rear speakers to feed signal to yer amp. Make sure that your are usig the high-level inputs and not the low level. If your amp doesn't have High level inputs then you'll have to go to a shop and buy a LOC (Line-Out Converter). This will convert your speaker level inputs into low level inputs. [/QUOTE]
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