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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 2153426" data-attributes="member: 561023"><p>//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/word.gif.64b12e39f936af3b4fff38a1c0bd0244.gif</p><p></p><p>No - so long as you use insulated terminals on the wires that you attach to the terminals on the relay and there's no chance of any metal-to-metal contact you'll be fine. I'm meaning a wire terminal <a href="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103499&amp;cp=2032058.2032231.2032283&amp;pg=4&amp;parentPage=family" target="_blank">such as this</a>.</p><p>See what I've quoted above from Worlddre's post in this thread. You'll attach wires to 4 of the 5 terminals found on your average 12v, 30a SPST relay. One of those will be a power feed coming from the battery. The second will be a ground. The third will be your trigger input (the input from the remote accessory activation output from the HU). The fourth will be your output which will feed the remote turn-on input on your three amplifiers.</p><p></p><p>Usually two things being activated by the HU is okay but no more than two. Three or more you'll want to use a relay as I've suggested to the OP. In my personal setup I have five things being activated by my HU: 2 amps and 3 neon lightbars. I incorporated a relay into the wiring path and have had zero problems.As far as the RCA outputs on any given amp not being affected by processing from the HU that's impossible. If there is any processing done by the HU the signal being passed to the amplifier(s) has <em>already been processed</em> before ever being received by the amp(s) to be amplified. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 2153426, member: 561023"] [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/word.gif.64b12e39f936af3b4fff38a1c0bd0244.gif[/IMG] No - so long as you use insulated terminals on the wires that you attach to the terminals on the relay and there's no chance of any metal-to-metal contact you'll be fine. I'm meaning a wire terminal [URL="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103499&cp=2032058.2032231.2032283&pg=4&parentPage=family"]such as this[/URL]. See what I've quoted above from Worlddre's post in this thread. You'll attach wires to 4 of the 5 terminals found on your average 12v, 30a SPST relay. One of those will be a power feed coming from the battery. The second will be a ground. The third will be your trigger input (the input from the remote accessory activation output from the HU). The fourth will be your output which will feed the remote turn-on input on your three amplifiers. Usually two things being activated by the HU is okay but no more than two. Three or more you'll want to use a relay as I've suggested to the OP. In my personal setup I have five things being activated by my HU: 2 amps and 3 neon lightbars. I incorporated a relay into the wiring path and have had zero problems.As far as the RCA outputs on any given amp not being affected by processing from the HU that's impossible. If there is any processing done by the HU the signal being passed to the amplifier(s) has [I]already been processed[/I] before ever being received by the amp(s) to be amplified. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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