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<blockquote data-quote="Wils91" data-source="post: 919498" data-attributes="member: 559557"><p>ok so this has me stumped...my friend decided he wanted to put some subs in his car, so we got a wiring kit, and i got to work....once i got the power and ground wires, remote and rcas ran we hooked up the amp then went to connect the neg. battery terminal and sparks started flying from the termina //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif l, i then disconnected the battery, hooked up the neg. first, then the pos. and the fuses on the amp blew. i thought maybe the ground, but its fine...i tried everything i could think of and i'm pretty sure i fried the amp because it was smoking from the level inputs. i'm not a newb i swear but this is killin me.</p><p></p><p>this is his first system and i had an older a jensen 4 channel(i know //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/blush.gif.99bc659ee2012b7d826165e26fb5eebe.gif ) we were gonna use so it didnt matter if like the amp blew up or anything.... but i dont want him to buy a bunch of stuff just for this to happen to it too</p><p></p><p>am i missing something because i am all out of ideas? please help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wils91, post: 919498, member: 559557"] ok so this has me stumped...my friend decided he wanted to put some subs in his car, so we got a wiring kit, and i got to work....once i got the power and ground wires, remote and rcas ran we hooked up the amp then went to connect the neg. battery terminal and sparks started flying from the termina [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif[/IMG] l, i then disconnected the battery, hooked up the neg. first, then the pos. and the fuses on the amp blew. i thought maybe the ground, but its fine...i tried everything i could think of and i'm pretty sure i fried the amp because it was smoking from the level inputs. i'm not a newb i swear but this is killin me. this is his first system and i had an older a jensen 4 channel(i know [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/blush.gif.99bc659ee2012b7d826165e26fb5eebe.gif[/IMG] ) we were gonna use so it didnt matter if like the amp blew up or anything.... but i dont want him to buy a bunch of stuff just for this to happen to it too am i missing something because i am all out of ideas? please help. [/QUOTE]
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