Old School Alpine 3523 Amp

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Topic: Old School Alpine 3523 Amp

Posted By: bobbybrown
Subject: Old School Alpine 3523 Amp
Date Posted: February 17, 2004 at 12:38 PM

I just happened to find an old Alpine 3523 amp in my storage but cannot find the plug for it. I know what the specs are for it but am unable to determine what the pins are. I have contacted Alpine USA, but they have no information on it (they say it's too old for their database).

Any suggestions ...

PS There is a label above the plug which shows the POWER (with two pins below it), REMOTE (with one plug under it), and Ground (with two pins under it). I can only assume that the two pins for the POWER and GROUND wopuld have leads coming out of it.

Just don't to end up frying the unit

Thanks ...

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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: February 17, 2004 at 1:32 PM

This amp had two power wires and two ground wires for inputs, shaking dust out of head.... You can take the amp apart and remove the white molex plugs attached to the amp circuit board and solder your power, ground, remote on wires direct to the board. I have not seen one of these amps in years now, that is a real Alpine amp, too bad they did not build them like that still.

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Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: February 17, 2004 at 5:16 PM

I agree with forbidden, this is what i had to do with some old orion amps, but the orions had misc. wires coming out of them some input some output that was fun to figure out

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Posted By: shredder130
Date Posted: February 23, 2004 at 4:12 PM

yeah i just happen to have an ol alpine 3522 amp sitting in my room, i tested it once and it worked great, thanks now i know how to safely hook it up

Posted By: customsuburb
Date Posted: February 23, 2004 at 8:21 PM

like this amp kind of? Alpine amp

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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: February 23, 2004 at 8:22 PM

The amp on the link posted is the same generation as the 3522 but a generation younger than the 3523, close but no banana.

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