i know total NEWB question but check it out. Since December 2011, when I installed the system in my wife's expedition, this amp has been in use. The amp has never once gave me an issue, and has worked awesomely. Recently we traded the expedition in on a brand new civic for the wife. Since our son is turning 16 soon, and we bought him a little 2000 Prelude. My wife decided, that rather than putting the stereo in the civic, that we could give it to our son.
The Prelude already had a crappy Sony (Walmart special), and an amp wiring kit installed. I installed the amp, and the Alpine type R, in the prelude and cant get the amp to power up. First thought was maybe the wiring is messed up. I pulled out the headunit because the amp wouldn't turn on, and wanted to see if the amp remote wire was hooked up, which it wasn't. Bare wires, some electrical tape, some scotch tape, connections that that as I touched them fell apart. I went through and used butt connectors as I didn't have any solder left.
Anyways, that didn't cure it, so I again removed the headunit and ran the remote directly to the power wire to see if I could trigger the amp. No-Go.
then I moved onto following the amp power cable. no issues. the fuse was good on the wiring kit.
I am at a loss and cannot find the fuse for the amp, is it an internal amp? or do y'all think my amp is just DOA?
sorry for the lengthy post, I just wanted you to know the background first as it would make this go faster for those that try to help me.
