Smoking remote wire

[edgecrusher89]

Hey guys,

Just after a bit of advice. I hooked up a sub and amp to my car last night, and am having a rather large issue with it. All the wires have been connected up but at first it didn't turn on at all. I asked a mate who's good with car audio and he said to test the remote wire, bridge the connection between remote and power on the amp and if it powers up, then the wire is connected wrong at the back of the HU. I did so, and it powered up. Unfortunately, a bigger problem occurred. The remote wire then started to smoke, and the insulation around it melted away. I managed to disconnect the battery in time before it damaged anything, but the car had a bit of smoke in it. I now need to figure out what to do. My game plan is to fully replace the remote wire with another length of 12ga (instead of the 18ga) it was before, and also run an inline fuse with it to prevent any current surges.

Does that sound alright. As in, am I right in diagnosing the remote wire was wrong to start with, and my resolution to fix it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers in advance.

EDIT - it's a Kenwood monoblock 1000W (300W RMS) amp & matched sub, with a new pioneer head unit...

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[.... 10+ year member]

Grab a dmm and test the remote turn on lead from the back of your deck. You'll be able to narrow it down to the exact spot where you stop getting power. My guess is that something on that circuit is creating a whole shit load of resistence because it shouldn't get that hot. All I ever use is 16 gauge and even with a ton of accesseries mine never even gets warm. If there is no juice coming from the remote turn on wire just hook it up to a switched 12 volt source....