Lack of signal :(

[Dwinsor]

Evening all, ive had a little bit of trouble tonight.

after reading a post on here that twisted and taped conections are bad and potentially dangerous i got my act together and went down halfords to get some bullet connectors and sort out the speaker cables behind my head unit.

behind my head unit i have a line output converter so the front left and right speaker wires into that and then where i have cut the wires for the line output converter i have got new speaker cable running from there back to the amplifier in the boot.

Now this is what has got me confused...

before i went to change it everything was working fine but once i had untaped and crimped up the new connectors on there was nothing or little coming out of the front speakers

. So for the moment until i get it sorted im stuck with just my rear coaxials working

Can anyone advise me as to what might not be right here? or can suggest somewhere that will have a look at it for me in buck's or bed's

Thankyou David

 

[volxstu]

I would say that you have a problem with the connectors. There is probably a loose wire somewhere try wiggling them all a bit to see if it comes on. Is there any way of swapping certain wires over to check if you swap them over weather the front ones come on.
You havnt nocked or loosened any other connection like if it is a converter outputing RCA level then they could have been pulled out or loose.

 

[Dwinsor]

ive checked all connections and even taken the connectors back off and just put wire to wire like before and nothing/ little still i just dont understand it.

 

[volxstu]

Well if you have checked every wire properly does it have an adjustable level that may have been changed.

 

[Dwinsor]

the only thing i havent checked is where the cable runs under the sill to the boot but nothing i have done tonight should of changed it down there and nope no adjuster on the converter

 

[volxstu]

Without having a fiddle myself the only thing that i can think of other than suggested is that you crimped the wrong wires.

 

[Dwinsor]

if you lived closer i would let yo have a fiddle with it cause im stumpted and i dotn think its that either cause i took the crimps off and tried wired to wire again and it was the same as crimped

 

[volxstu]

What i meant was if you cut the wires from an ISO block you didnt accidently wire the ones that go into the block not the ones that come from the HU. More embarresing things have happened in the Volx mobile's.

 

[Dwinsor]

ah right no ive still got the original HU and the wires had been cut a month or 2 back but decided to do it properly now lol

 

[smokeyjoe03]

If just your rear coaxials are working does that mean your front comps and sub are amped and rears work off HU?

Might be worth checking the fuse in your amp?

 

[Dwinsor]

Yes the fronts are amped but when i check the signal going into the amp from the speaker wires there is little to none.

 

[shaunmurray]

probs is gonna be :

you have put left - with right +
or vice versa

but again its quite hard to advise without see the car