amp and light trouble
08-09-2004, 06:08 PM
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amp and light trouble
ok recently i tried something that brad (aCiD) had shown me how to do. Basically i hook up a cold cathode tube to the remote turn on and the ground wires going to my amp and the light turns on when the amp turns on. it worked great for a while... then it didnt anymore. twhen i say that i mean the light worked and the subs didnt. the amp was turning on, and at a high volume you could tell the subs were trying tomake noise. so i was going to take the cathode out. i reached back and turned the switch off on the cathode. the car was on and the speakers were on and the second i turned it off, the subs worked again. now my thinking was what the hell? so today i remembered puling my deck to install the subs, and i remembered having to splice into the remote turn on becuase the place that installed the deck for me had my remote turn on being used for somehting else. can someone please clear this up for me. what did they do, what did i do, whats wrong, and how can i fix it?
08-11-2004, 02:32 PM
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Hello there, I am new to the group (just bought a 96 SE with the bluish-greenish paint, real nice car) and I think I have an explanation to your prob. The remote turn-on wires for most aftermarket stereos put out very low current because they are not meant to drive ANYTHING, just act as a signal for a relay (i.e. power antenna, amp turn-on). If you want to drive your lights with stereo on, you have a few options. One is to install a relay at the other end of your remote turn-on, then from that run a power bus to your accessories. The other less technical alternative is to run just your cathode tube feed to a switched-power source (like accessory power).
Hope this helpd you!
Bradley
Hope this helpd you!
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08-11-2004, 11:03 PM
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i'd have to agree with sandrock... nothing should be run off that signal wire except for the singal to the amp saying 'yo, turn on and do something!' find a different power source and you should be good
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alright i will do that, however, why is my remote turn on going to something else aside from my amp? and what is it goint oo?>
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