mastarecoil 10+ year member
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I am trying to hook up an automotive relay for turning on my amps. I have tripled checked that my wires are okay.
30 to battery
87 to amps
86 to trigger supply
85 to ground
My trigger supply is a power antenna turn on. This car has no power antenna, so the relay is the only draw to this source. I have read about others sucesfully using this as the remote input for their amps (with and without a relay) so I believe it should provide enough current, those automotive relays dont draw much anyways.
When the power antenna wire is not connected to the relay, it reads a nice 12volts. When it is connected, however, the relay does not trigger and I only measure 1volt.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?
Thanks!
30 to battery
87 to amps
86 to trigger supply
85 to ground
My trigger supply is a power antenna turn on. This car has no power antenna, so the relay is the only draw to this source. I have read about others sucesfully using this as the remote input for their amps (with and without a relay) so I believe it should provide enough current, those automotive relays dont draw much anyways.
When the power antenna wire is not connected to the relay, it reads a nice 12volts. When it is connected, however, the relay does not trigger and I only measure 1volt.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?
Thanks!