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Posted: July 10, 2004 at 3:09 PM / IP Logged

It is more than likely that you have a bad ground. Rockford amplifiers and GM vehicles are notorious for noise problems and amplifier failures when you have a bad ground. Run all of the speakers in the vehicle, the front and rear speakers off of the cd player, use the amp only for the subs. Make sure that you set the crossover on the amp to LP to use the amp properly. Do you have a meter? Are your subs a single 8 ohm voice coil?

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Posted: July 11, 2004 at 1:12 AM / IP Logged

Yeh the subs are single 8 ohm wired to be a 4 ohm load and then bridged to 2 channels of the amp. when runnning the cables, what should be run together( power on one side and everything on the other or what). We had a problem with the ground before and so I sanded down a good bit and upgraded to 4 gauge. Nope I don;t have a meter.

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Posted: July 11, 2004 at 10:06 AM / IP Logged

try running your speaker wires on the right side of your car and you power cable on your left side of the car. you are getting engine noise, and this is the most common cause. also get a 100amp fuse on your power cable and place it about six inches from yor battery.

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Posted: July 11, 2004 at 10:52 AM / IP Logged

What side should I run the remote turn on. So put power wire on one side and rca's with speaker wire on the other.

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Posted: July 11, 2004 at 7:23 PM / IP Logged

The remote is connected to 12 volt, so it runs with the power wire. The RCA's are the cables you want to isolate from running parallel with power wires. The speaker wires are from the output stage of the amp, so they can run anywhere, as they are not a signal source conveyer. Most people take the precautionary approach, though, and use a little more wire and run them up one side of the car with the other non-power wires. I do too.

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