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BangBang

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 6:35 AM / IP Logged

My amp wont turn on any more . i just bought a new one too. to replace the old one from not working.

i worked before.. i'm not sure if the wires jacked up. i mean the amps new it should work.. so i dunno. wut do i need to check?

the fuses? already did. notghings wrong. i'm not sure wut the problem is sirs!

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 9:21 AM / IP Logged

get a volt meter and make sure power is coming in throughthe wires... then if it is get like a y-adapter from like red -white to a headphone jack and hook it up 2 ur amp and the other end to a cd player and see if it works then if so its your rcas.... but if the amp isnt turning on check ur REM maybe it was a bad splice r w/e behind the deck and its not getting any power now.....if not that check your settings to make sure that sub output is on b/c on mine i can change whether or not the REM turns on..... just a few of my thoughts/....

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 1:33 PM / IP Logged

yeah this is what happend. my old amp got fried. right where the hot wire and amp is connected.. so i got a new amp.

it connected everything and it wont turn on.

so i took a spare 4 guage wire . (currently its an 8 guage wire) and tested it from the battery to the amp to see if it works. and it turned on.

so i'm not sure wats going on. i know its the old 8 guage wire. but wut can go bad with them?

the fuse on the thing is ok. so wut di need to do change the hot wire?

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 4:07 PM / IP Logged

Did you check the fuse near the battery?

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 5:15 PM / IP Logged

i have seen fuses go bad, but still look perfectly fine. So it may be a defective fuse not passing power, or a remote wire not passing power. the only way to find the pronb is by testing the wires with a meter.

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 6:46 PM / IP Logged

Try using a dmm on the power cable going to the amp.

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 8:07 PM / IP Logged

I thought I posted that comment somewhere, so did you get that pos working yet. (anything that does not work when it is supposed to is a pos - if is labelled Bose or similar then it is a big POS - so I'm not hatin on your gear)

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superstreet786

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Posted: April 03, 2004 at 8:15 PM / IP Logged

it almost sounds like just a remote wire

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BangBang

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Posted: April 04, 2004 at 12:03 AM / IP Logged

wuts another way i can test to see if the wire is passing wire beside going out and buying a meter?

i dont think its the remote wire. cuz if it was the remote wire. then the amp should not have powered wen i used the 4 guage hot wire to test the amp...

right? plz?

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Posted: April 04, 2004 at 12:25 AM / IP Logged

your 8ga wire could have been running too much current and seperated at some place during the run from the battery to the amp, i would just reccomend replacing the 8ga wire. 8ga is nothing expensive any more, why not just run the 4ga to your amp already. problem solved.

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