First of I am fairly new to this and have searched the forum for my questions but as of yet have not found the answers.
I have an Audison 5.1 amp in a 2005 Acura TL. I have diamond mids/highs and a JL 10 w3 for sub. As I was driving the other day the system just shut off. I am using the OEM deck with zapco's SLDBIN.T oem adapters and everything was working fine. So here's what I have done so far.
1. Initially the amp would not turn on. When I checked voltage with the car on it was reading only 4 volts with a DMM. I rechecked my power/ground wires (both 4 ga) and remote. Remote wire was only getting 3 volts. The fuse looked good under the hood. I have since replaced the fuse and now have ~12 volts power and ~8 volts remote( the remote wire is spliced into the factory amp remote which gives ~10 volt reading).
2. Still my amp won't turn on. So I used an old RF amp to see if I could make it work. Here's where I get lost. My remote wire reads ~8volts not attached to the amp. As soon as I touch the remote wire to the RF amp (and it also did this with the Audison) the voltage drops to 3 just like that. The amp is getting proper voltage to turn on as tested with DMM.
3. Now I made a jumper wire from the power wire terminal and touched it to the remote and now the amp turns on. However I still get no audio through the speakers. I have tried running new remote wires straight from acc. fuse boxes and I end up getting the same result every time.
I guess I have a short somewhere. I don't know. The ground has been good for 6 months(on sanded bare metal). Can it become a bad ground for some reason? Why does the remote wire go from 8 v to 3 v when it touches my amps? And why when I get the RF amp to turn on does no music play?
I have checked all my connections. I believe you can measure some voltage on an RCA wire (I believe it varies with music signal) by using the pin and the outer ring which I have done. Sometimes I get a ~2volt reading, most of the time 0.
Please help as I am begining to go mad.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif
