RCA problems

[hp_darkman88]

i bought a aftermarket radio a while back but i didn't have an amp so i didn't think i would need the rca plugs on the back so i cut them off (still have them though) but my buddy gave me his amp and now i need to know if i can just splice them back on or if i can use the + and - speaker wire that is already running through my car and adapt it to the rca inputs on the amp..... if so please help me out

Any question e-mail me at lp_kingdom88@yahoo.com

thanks,

scott

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[Radioflyer97 10+ year member]

just splicing the wires into RCAs will not work. If your amp has speaker level inputs, you're lucky, you can just run the speaker wires into those inputs. If not, you will need an adapter. I believe you can pick up these as low as $20 from wal mart.

 

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

shouldn't of taken them off in the first place lol. but i agree with Radio.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

You...cut...them...off...

What were you thinking at the time?

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

never take them off, but no you cannont just reconnect the RCA's but you can get a line out converter, and that will give you signal for your amp

 

[Kriszilla 10+ year member]

You...cut...them...off...
What were you thinking at the time?

When I read that, in my head I heard it being spoken by William Shatner.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

This should hopefully teach the original poster a valuable lesson about cutting off things that are permanently attached.

In the future, if you don't want something hanging, use a zip-tie. Then you can feed your addiction by cutting off the excess piece of the zip-tie if you absolutely must cut something (besides one's wrists).

 

[jmoreno150 10+ year member]

lol wow my dude just get urself a loc and run ur amp from that. lay off that krippy...

 

[hp_darkman88]

At the time when i was installing it there were too many of the rca plugs, and i snipped them off thinking i would never need them and then the radio fit.....

sheer stupidity on my part.

but why can't i just repslice it, if i get the right wires touch the right parts?

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

have you looked at the RCA's wires? you can go ahead and try it, but your not gonna get yourself anywhere, and youll basically waist time doing it

 

[hp_darkman88]

but if i keep the outside wires together and the inside wires together wouldn't it work? i mean that would be the same as splicing other wires and i have done that before with other things just not rca.....

i wonder why it wouldn't work

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

you will be alot more successful, and it will be a whole lot easier to just get a line out converter, all you need to do is hook up for wires on that, a voila, you have new rca's that wont give you a scrambled signal, and will sound million times better!

 

[hp_darkman88]

i have just searched wal-mart, radioshack, and bestbuy for this and i can't find anyone with it.... where should i check for one?

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

You can resplice them...it's a pain in the butt and not really a job for noobs...you might also mess up your amp and or deck outputs/inputs if you wire them wrong or they come undone...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Stinger-High-Power-Fixed-Line-Output-Converter-SLOC_W0QQitemZ170099264479QQihZ007QQcategoryZ50552QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

or just search for line output converter in google, you will get many different sites that sell them

 

[Kriszilla 10+ year member]

Or, if you're at all technical (and brave), go to Radio Shack and buy some leads with female RCA ends, open up the deck, and remove the old RCA's, and solder in the new ones.

I had to do that to an older Pioneer I had after one of them got pinched and damaged.