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<blockquote data-quote="Yosuncle" data-source="post: 8732526" data-attributes="member: 682046"><p>UPDATE:</p><p></p><p>I ran a parasitic draw test on the amp in question. When the light indicates it is on, but with only the primary ground and power wires connected, draw is approx. 0.7A or 700mA, which is too high to leave unattended of course.</p><p></p><p>I tried to draw the power measured from the REM line to ground in hope that it would shut the amp down, which in fact it should NOT do and this should not work. (if there is power coming from that line, internally even if it should not be there, pulling to ground should only lead to the broken internals simply acting as a "source"...Well...</p><p></p><p>It worked! I used a small automotive light to use as a resistive device in the line. Wire connects to REM screw, passes through the light and to ground and the amp power light turned off...(strangely, the light does not light up at all!)...</p><p></p><p>On further testing using this setup, the idle amp draw before the "rig" was 700mA, and drops down to only 6mA with the working solution...</p><p></p><p>So end result is that now my REM line will be drawn to ground, (through a resistor device), to be turned off, rather than "seeing" a hot 12v signal to work as a "turn on" switch!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yosuncle, post: 8732526, member: 682046"] UPDATE: I ran a parasitic draw test on the amp in question. When the light indicates it is on, but with only the primary ground and power wires connected, draw is approx. 0.7A or 700mA, which is too high to leave unattended of course. I tried to draw the power measured from the REM line to ground in hope that it would shut the amp down, which in fact it should NOT do and this should not work. (if there is power coming from that line, internally even if it should not be there, pulling to ground should only lead to the broken internals simply acting as a "source"...Well... It worked! I used a small automotive light to use as a resistive device in the line. Wire connects to REM screw, passes through the light and to ground and the amp power light turned off...(strangely, the light does not light up at all!)... On further testing using this setup, the idle amp draw before the "rig" was 700mA, and drops down to only 6mA with the working solution... So end result is that now my REM line will be drawn to ground, (through a resistor device), to be turned off, rather than "seeing" a hot 12v signal to work as a "turn on" switch! [/QUOTE]
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