Need Help Immediately Plz!!!!

JDMCivicB16B

I AM GOING TO TAKE A LOUISVILLE SLUGGER TO MY CAR..PISSING ME OFF. BEEN WIRING ALL DAY. NOW MY AMP WONT TURN ON. STAYS IN STAND-BY MODE. FOUND OUT NEED TO HOOK UP THE TURN ON WIRE TO THE POWER ACC IN THE STEREO. BUT MY QUESTION IS..HOW EXACTLY DO I RUN THAT RELAY TO THE AMP?

PLZ HELP ...I AM TRYING TO FINISH THIS TODAY.

spwuinmk67

Just run a wire from the REM wire on the HU, it's either blue, or blue with a white or black stripe, back to the REM terminal on the amp. Any wire should do, I'm using half of an old piece of speaker wire.

JDMCivicB16B

I AM STILL CONFUSED...DONT RUN THAT BLUE WIRE TO THE CAR STEREO, INSTEAD RUN IT TO THE AMP? OR RUN IT TO THE STEREO THEN TO THE AMP?

MacLeod

First off QUIT YELLING!

Second, you run the blue or blue/white wire from the h/u to the amps remote input usually marked by RMT.

But this may not be your problem. If yo dont have the remote hooked up your amp wouldnt be coming on at all much less in standby.

Run the remote wire and let us know if it worked. You may have another problem.

JDMCivicB16B

I wasnt yelling....

Well my first problem was..when I tried to ground the amp, the LED light goes off, but when the ground is not secure, the light is on. Then, my dad's friend said, its in standby mode, and not turning on, cuz of the RMT.

I dunno whats going on, wish I could just wave my hand, and it all go away. BTW..my equipment is MTX T202, and 10" inch polkmomo sub.

kenstewart

JDM, I'm a newbie myself to the site, but I can assure you these guys are awesome and will help out in every way ... I know firsthand. What they meant by you yelling was having your CAPS LOCK on for your previous posts ... in net chat terms this is yelling. Sorry I can't give you any tech help, these guys are the experts at that.

MacLeod

That doesnt make any sense. If the amp is not grounded then the light most certainly should not be anything other than OFF.

OK, try this:

Unhook all wiring. Power, ground, RCA's speakers, everything.

If you have a test light, make sure your power wire has power. If so, hook it up.

Then run the remote wire from the h/u but before hooking it up to the amp, use your test light and see if it has power.

If so then hook up your ground. Make sure its a good ground location and the area around the ground has all the paint sanded away for best contact.

Now if your amp turns on, then hook up the RCA's. If the amp turns off then thats where your problem is.

If it stays on then hook up your speaker wires. If the amp cuts off now then thats where your problem lies.

Try this and let us know what happened. We can trouble shoot from there.

JDMCivicB16B

Well, I tell you so far what i have tried...

without hooking up the RMT,

When i connect the power wire..light is off

When I then connected the RCAs, light turns on

Then when i tried to ground, the light turns off

JDMCivicB16B

BTW..what i just said..is when the car is off, key is not in the ignition.

Dennis Gardner

Go ahead with the baseball bat idea. Then post pics.:D

It sounds like you are getting ground through your RCAs. Disconnect them, run all power wires, get the amp to power on and off properly, then connect your signal wires.

spwuinmk67

You should be trying these things with the hu on and off, the key should be in the ignition cause the hu is hooked up to a switched 12v source. When the hu turns on, it sends the signal to the amp, via the REM wire, to turn on. Therefore, amps gotta be on. The light on the amp could be on, even without a ground hooked up. I had a problem with my ground wouldnt stay screwed in to the amp. Everytime it came off, the light would turn red, hu on or not. Hook it back up, and the light turns on, or green if the hu is on.

JDMCivicB16B

yea the light is red when it turns on, by just plugging in the RCAs and power wire. I also tried with the HU on, I guess i will have to run the rmt to the amp and see what happens from there...but im still confused on how to do that, because i have adapters hooked up to my HU, should i just run a wire into the adapter..then to the amp?

MacLeod

The amp will be OFF until the remote wire is hooked up. This is what turns it on.

With the remote not hooked up the amp should not come on regardless of what you have hooked up.

If the light turns red, that means the amp is in protection mode and its either grounded improperly, overheating or operating at too low an impedance.

JDMCivicB16B

OK i understand now, let me go try to run this wire..is 20 gauge fine or should i use 10 gauge ?

MacLeod

Originally posted by JDMCivicB16B
yea the light is red when it turns on, by just plugging in the RCAs and power wire. I also tried with the HU on, I guess i will have to run the rmt to the amp and see what happens from there...but im still confused on how to do that, because i have adapters hooked up to my HU, should i just run a wire into the adapter..then to the amp?

Forget the light for now. You need to get it hooked up properly before you can troubleshoot anything. WITHOUT THE REMOTE WIRE HOOKED UP THE AMP WILL NOT WORK! (now Im yelling )

Pull your head unit out and find the remote wire. If it is not running to anything (power antenae) then hook a wire onto it and run it to your amp.

MacLeod

Originally posted by JDMCivicB16B
OK i understand now, let me go try to run this wire..is 20 gauge fine or should i use 10 gauge ?

Well, 16 guage is what I would use for the RMT. If the 20 is all you have use it for now just to see if it works.

The 10 wont fit into the terminal anyway.

JDMCivicB16B

alright, let me drink a cold beer first, and then figure out how to run this wire.

MacLeod

LOL!!

That may be your problem right there!

Quit drinking beer while youre doing this! Alcohol shouldnt be used when youre doing something that could possibly result in your car burning to the ground!!

JDMCivicB16B

my first beer..im just frustrated lol

MacLeod

Yup. It gets that way sometime.

Finish that beer, sit there and watch some TV or something and forget about your system for about 15 minutes. Then when youve cooled off you go back out there and its a whole lot better.

JDMCivicB16B

let me get this straight..so i do it right the first time....

i dont need to connect the blue/white wire to the HU..i can just run it straight to the amp instead?

spwuinmk67

You run the REM wire from the blue/white wire on the back of the hu, to the REM terminal on the amp. This is what tells the amp to turn on, otherwise it just stays off.

JDMCivicB16B

OK..got it..see you guys in a few with an update..pray for me plz

spwuinmk67

Haha, good luck. It's not that hard...

MacLeod

Right.

the remote wire is originating from the head unit so its already hooked up to it.

JDMCivicB16B

Alright, just looked at it...i see a blue wire that comes into the stereo harness, then loops back into the harness and ends there...im guessing thats the wire? if so...put my wire into the other side of the harness of where the wire ends, and run it back to the amp?

spwuinmk67

Should be, if you don't have a power antenna then it should just stop. You can hook it to the end of the harness, or just crimp, splice, or whatever to that wire somewhere, if you wanna cut it or something.

MacLeod

Your wiring harness should be labled and should tell you which one is the remote wire. If you cant find it look for the blue or blue/white wire coming out of your head unit and follow that one.

JDMCivicB16B

ok..then im pretty sure i was right about the wire im talking about. and no..my harness is not labeled..thanks to the guys at circuit city. but my new Kenwood HU is..soo..im good.

MacLeod

Good. Then go out there and run that wire to your amps RMT terminal and let us know.

JDMCivicB16B

I GOT BASS! WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
BEERS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

seriously, i want to thank everyone who posted on this topic....love you guys (no homo)!

cross this project off the list..move on to the next

next will be mounting my Kenwood amp..that will power my DBs in my front stage..start that lata on..since i am so happy!!!


thanks again guys

-Juno