What equipment do you have?
Eonon double din stereo, pyle blue front foor speakers, vibe sek 5 rear with tweeter and crossover, black air twin 12" active subs and vive a1 amp (powering all door speakers) BUT.. since the problem i brought some new equipment... JVC KD-R422 stereo, vibe a4 amp, and black air components for the front doors to replace the pyle blue ones, but havn't connected these yet due to not wanting to blow them or cause any sort of damage
What exactly is the problem? For example, do any lights come on, is there a distorted sound, etc.
I've had the same set up for over a year, and it has all been working fine, at one point i did over heat the vibe a1 amp by bridging the wires wrong and setting the impedence wrong, but after that i corrected the problem and it worked fine ever since and this was about 8 months ago.
So.. i was driving into town, on a smooth road, and my speakers that are amped up by the vibe a1 amp went off, so i thought, hey its happened before and it's probably just over heated, which it did, so i left it for an hour, came back expecting it to turn on but went into protect mode, then shortly after my sub started smoking, and figured that one of the coils has gone in the right hand sub (as its now out of phase with the other sub and when you touch the cone you can hear and feel it rubbing) so after going around with the multi meter, power on the vibe a1 power wire was reading fine, as was remote, tested the ground too and thats fine, as are the sub wires, the battery is running fine too, and the ground is also reading correctly, so i have been out and brought a new headunit (needed an upgrade anyways) new vibe a4 amp to replace the old one, and some new speakers (also needed an upgrade) before changing any of the new equiptment over i found a short in a tweeter wire wire the casing had split of the copper strands were touching the chassis, so fixed that and after plugging the new amp in it does exactly the same as the other amp, i have checked all my other speaker wires for shorts, they are fine, tested the amp with no high level input in and no speaker wires, it was in protect still but then i plugged the high level in and it went off, at the minute the power light comes on then it starts to fade out, no protection comes on, another weird thing was that the power cable to the fuse blew (we didn't realize at the time) and we connected a short lenght oif wire from the power to the remote to test if the problem was in the remote wire, and the amp came on, the light stayed on and no protection, so i took one of my front door speakers completly out and wired it straight up in the boot where the amp is, and the speaker came on, but very very quiet, no mid just highs, and so we used a totally different speaker to do this test just to make sure that speaker wasn't broken and the same thing still, the after realizing that the fuse had blown in the power wire, we replaced the fuse and back to square one, no sound and protection mode flickering, so i tried turning the gain down and still no change..
I'm using high level input because the headunit doesnt have rca, all fuses have been checked, all wires have been checked, i've even tried the power wires from the subs amp in the vibe a1 and vibe a4 and still the same, also when i got the headunit and plugged it in i hadnt modified the loom to go to the high level input so it they were running straight from the amp and the sound was quiet and distorted, there are other tests i have done but i can't remember because i've done so many, oh and also tried plugging the rca's from the sub into the vibe a1 and vibe a4 amp and still no change
Pleaseeeee help
Eonon double din stereo, pyle blue front foor speakers, vibe sek 5 rear with tweeter and crossover, black air twin 12" active subs and vive a1 amp (powering all door speakers) BUT.. since the problem i brought some new equipment... JVC KD-R422 stereo, vibe a4 amp, and black air components for the front doors to replace the pyle blue ones, but havn't connected these yet due to not wanting to blow them or cause any sort of damage
What exactly is the problem? For example, do any lights come on, is there a distorted sound, etc.
I've had the same set up for over a year, and it has all been working fine, at one point i did over heat the vibe a1 amp by bridging the wires wrong and setting the impedence wrong, but after that i corrected the problem and it worked fine ever since and this was about 8 months ago.
So.. i was driving into town, on a smooth road, and my speakers that are amped up by the vibe a1 amp went off, so i thought, hey its happened before and it's probably just over heated, which it did, so i left it for an hour, came back expecting it to turn on but went into protect mode, then shortly after my sub started smoking, and figured that one of the coils has gone in the right hand sub (as its now out of phase with the other sub and when you touch the cone you can hear and feel it rubbing) so after going around with the multi meter, power on the vibe a1 power wire was reading fine, as was remote, tested the ground too and thats fine, as are the sub wires, the battery is running fine too, and the ground is also reading correctly, so i have been out and brought a new headunit (needed an upgrade anyways) new vibe a4 amp to replace the old one, and some new speakers (also needed an upgrade) before changing any of the new equiptment over i found a short in a tweeter wire wire the casing had split of the copper strands were touching the chassis, so fixed that and after plugging the new amp in it does exactly the same as the other amp, i have checked all my other speaker wires for shorts, they are fine, tested the amp with no high level input in and no speaker wires, it was in protect still but then i plugged the high level in and it went off, at the minute the power light comes on then it starts to fade out, no protection comes on, another weird thing was that the power cable to the fuse blew (we didn't realize at the time) and we connected a short lenght oif wire from the power to the remote to test if the problem was in the remote wire, and the amp came on, the light stayed on and no protection, so i took one of my front door speakers completly out and wired it straight up in the boot where the amp is, and the speaker came on, but very very quiet, no mid just highs, and so we used a totally different speaker to do this test just to make sure that speaker wasn't broken and the same thing still, the after realizing that the fuse had blown in the power wire, we replaced the fuse and back to square one, no sound and protection mode flickering, so i tried turning the gain down and still no change..
I'm using high level input because the headunit doesnt have rca, all fuses have been checked, all wires have been checked, i've even tried the power wires from the subs amp in the vibe a1 and vibe a4 and still the same, also when i got the headunit and plugged it in i hadnt modified the loom to go to the high level input so it they were running straight from the amp and the sound was quiet and distorted, there are other tests i have done but i can't remember because i've done so many, oh and also tried plugging the rca's from the sub into the vibe a1 and vibe a4 amp and still no change
Pleaseeeee help
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