Tinsel Lead broken....is that the problem?

[TreyE 10+ year member]

You do not have power and ground in both power/ground terminals? The amp was designed with dual 4 awg terminals, and needs to run with power going to both sets of terminals...

greeeeaat...ok so it worked though for a long time...you think i ****ed the amp over or do i just need to hook it up to both power/ground terminals??

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

greeeeaat...ok so it worked though for a long time...you think i ****ed the amp over or do i just need to hook it up to both power/ground terminals??

I really have no idea on that one bro, and I am not entirely sure that is your problem either. But I would deffinitly get a distribution block, and some 4 guage wiring to set it up properly and go from there.

One way to eliminate the amp as a problem would be to get a 3.5mm to RCA cable (RCA's on one end and a headphone jack on the other.) Then you can use a portable device (CD player, DVD player, Ipod, etc.) and hook it up to your amplifier via the RCA inputs. If everything works then your head unit is the problem, or RCA's are grounding out, but it elimates your amplifier as being the problem.

And if it still doesnt work, then it would mean your amplifier is the problem //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[TreyE 10+ year member]

I really have no idea on that one bro, and I am not entirely sure that is your problem either. But I would deffinitly get a distribution block, and some 4 guage wiring to set it up properly and go from there.
One way to eliminate the amp as a problem would be to get a 3.5mm to RCA cable (RCA's on one end and a headphone jack on the other.) Then you can use a portable device (CD player, DVD player, Ipod, etc.) and hook it up to your amplifier via the RCA inputs. If everything works then your head unit is the problem, or RCA's are grounding out, but it elimates your amplifier as being the problem.

And if it still doesnt work, then it would mean your amplifier is the problem //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

ok ill do that after school...fuckin school sucks dick i gotta fix my system not learn things...hey you coming to the new years meet in clearwater december 30th??

 

[FOSGATE JOE 10+ year member]

i go to j.c to ^^^ been there bro.I hate when my shit goes down then i got school or work suxs!! good luck

 

[TreyE 10+ year member]

i go to j.c to ^^^ been there bro.I hate when my shit goes down then i got school or work suxs!! good luck

thanks man i just hope it isnt the amp lol because its 3 days old and that would blooowww two broken amps...but still cant find out why it suddenly stopped playing when the tinsel lead broke...hmmmm:eyebrow:

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

ok ill do that after school...fuckin school sucks dick i gotta fix my system not learn things...hey you coming to the new years meet in clearwater december 30th??

Yeah, school sucks the big one.

I didnt plan on attending the meet, I dont do very well around a lot of strangers:crap:

Might reconsider it though, idk.. Depends on how loud I can get these Pioneers. My next build will include a 12" round port //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[FOSGATE JOE 10+ year member]

so you know its the amp??have you put a sub or something to see if it is your amp????when i had that happen to me it was my sub:{ it was becuzz i had it ported to 28hz with no subsonic on!

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

so you know its the amp??have you put a sub or something to see if it is your amp????when i had that happen to me it was my sub:{ it was becuzz i had it ported to 28hz with no subsonic on!

Did you read the thread? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

He put a 9v on each coil, and the sub jumped... So that's not the problem.

 

[TreyE 10+ year member]

Did you read the thread? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
He put a 9v on each coil, and the sub jumped... So that's not the problem.

yea after school ima go get some headphone jacks and hook it up to my ipod then to the amp and also get some distrobution blocks to run both sets of 4ga to em to see if thats what it was...

 

[germanyt 10+ year member]

Ha Ha. Sorry but that is kinda funny. Sounds like you may have just ruined a brand new amp cuz it wasn't hooked up right. If the amp has more than one power and ground connection then they have to both be hooked up. Yes Yes Yes. Try hooking it up and see if it'll still work but you may be out of luck.

 

[FOSGATE JOE 10+ year member]

Did you read the thread? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
He put a 9v on each coil, and the sub jumped... So that's not the problem.

HOW SO?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

 

[TreyE 10+ year member]

Ha Ha. Sorry but that is kinda funny. Sounds like you may have just ruined a brand new amp cuz it wasn't hooked up right. If the amp has more than one power and ground connection then they have to both be hooked up. Yes Yes Yes. Try hooking it up and see if it'll still work but you may be out of luck.

thanks *** i already figured that out

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

HOW SO?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif How so, what? If the subwoofer accepts the power correctly, by showing cone movement, then it would do the same while hooked up to an amplifier.

 

[FOSGATE JOE 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif How so, what? If the subwoofer accepts the power correctly, by showing cone movement, then it would do the same while hooked up to an amplifier.

COOL THANXS:crap: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[9512ds 5,000+ posts]

Nah the orions dont have to have both power terminals used...

at least the old ones didnt