98 Toyota Corolla LE stereo
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Forum Name: Car Audio
Forum Discription: Car Stereos, Amplifiers, Crossovers, Processors, Speakers, Subwoofers, etc.
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Printed Date: May 11, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Topic: 98 Toyota Corolla LE stereo
Posted By: devastater99
Subject: 98 Toyota Corolla LE stereo
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 5:11 PM
hey, i really need some help with the hook up of this sub my cousin just gave me cause he had it laying around. its got an amp attached on the back of it, and is all i have to do is hook up the power from the amp to the battery and then find the sub cables from my stereo and run wires to the back and hook them up to the amp (then to the sub) ..........if thats right, then does anyone have a diagram of the stereo i got (Pioneer DEH-1600) so i can get the sub hooked up? i know thats probably wrong somehow cause ive never done this before, so can someone help me out...... ive helped people with a little xbox modding and pictures help a whole lot so here you go:) plz reply and thnx!!! One of the speakers in the trunk if the writing on the back helps at all https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Devastater/car010.jpgthe sub and a bunch of pictures of the amp
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Posted By: menace2sobriety
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 7:40 PM
what you need to do is buy rca's long enough to reach your amp. hook those into the rear of your deck in rear-out or sub-out. if you have sub-out. the blue wire on the back of the deck is your remote turn on add length to reach your amp. use heat shrink to cover up the connection (just use a butt connector) next remove your positve terminal off of your battery run an 8 guage wire from the battery to the amp. use the same size ground. NEVER use a smaller size ground. and find a good grounding point. close to the amp. it looks like the amp is wired for bridged operation so leave it. did i leave anything out???? still need help just ask. dissconnect the battery first,
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Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 10:17 PM
alright lemme read this back to you and make sure i understood it all, get rca connection from back of my stereo to the the amp, (sub outs of course) then from the amp to the sub, then get long enough 8 guage wire to get from the amp to my battery, pos to pos then ground on anything without a pos charge like the frame? or inside the trunk somewhere? good idea, bad? 8 guage for that as well..... and then what do u mean its wired for a bridged operation, plz explain so i don't totally mess something up without even knowing...... kool, now i just need to find schematics for the pioneer DEH-1600........ oh ya, might there be a breaker panel somewhere in the trunk that i can get power for the amp from instead of the battery way in the front? i'll look for one tomaro.....
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 10:37 PM
oh ya and i forgot, what is this remote turn on you are talking about? i found installation instructions for the DEH-1600 on pioneers website and it looks even simpler than i thought cause i don't even have to splice any wires back there.......just gotta plug the rca's in........but it also mentioned the system remote control thingy and i have no idea what that is.......can u explain it to me?  heres the link to the install pdf
Posted By: Hornshockey
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 10:47 PM
menace was actually a bit off on the remote turn-on; you want the blue/white wire in the back of your deck, unless you don't want the sub playing when you're listening to a CD 
The remote wire is a very low current 12V wire that triggers the amp to turn on so it is not on when the HU is not on. There should be 3 inputs on your amp: +12V, rem, gnd. The remote input will be much smaller than the other two.
You will not find any large gauge wires in the trunk that you can pull power for the amp. Please do not forget to fuse that main power wire from the battery within 10"-12" of the connection to the battery in the front. ------------- Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while; you could miss it.
Posted By: Hornshockey
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 10:48 PM
and who shot the amp with the shotgun?  ------------- Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while; you could miss it.
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 08, 2005 at 11:08 PM
lol, i dunno my cousin gave it to me that way.....  but i'm guessing that remote you're talking about would be in this pic right? right next to gnd, the one that says remote? so connect the blue/white wire in the back to that........and do i have to splice it and leave it in tact while putting another wire leading to the amp, or can i just cut it and connect it, and........*grunt* to many details to take into account......what guage wire for that, and what kind of fuse for the amp power........really sorry for so many questions ive never hooked up any kind of audio in a car b4......
Posted By: Hornshockey
Date Posted: November 09, 2005 at 12:31 AM
you got it on the connection at the amp. The blue/white behind the radio should not be hooked to anything right now; that car does not have a factory amp to turn on. You should be able to add a length directly to the end of the wire from the harness off the radio. Use 18 gauge or so for that wire; it carries very little current.
The fuse on your main power wire should be slightly greater than the max current draw of your amp; you can just look at the fuses on the side of the amp to determine that. Your amp has one 25A fuse, so I would use a 30A fuse on your main power wire, that way you will be sure that you can provide enough current for any musical peaks, but your wire is protected in the event of a short circuit. You could realistically use any fuse between 30-70A.
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Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while; you could miss it.
Posted By: menace2sobriety
Date Posted: November 09, 2005 at 12:38 AM
 thank you for catching that hornshockey!! -------------
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 09, 2005 at 10:12 PM
sweet, i think thats all the info i need......i opened up the dash and the rear outputs are right there, and the blue/white wire......lol  has got a manufacture note on it stating what it is and then a female connector on it to make everything that much easier.....i have a long enough rca cable, but thats all i have ......so............ TO THE HARDWARE STORE!!!! thankyou guys for all your help, without you i would probably electricute myself trying to hook all this up...
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 10, 2005 at 10:28 PM
hey do you guys know where i can find an in line fuse? ive been to a small hardware store and a radio shack and so far neither of them have any...... auto zone maybe?
Posted By: Hornshockey
Date Posted: November 11, 2005 at 2:36 AM
you'll probably have to hit a local stereo shop; you can get either a standard blade type holder or an AGL type fuse holder. The blade type holder will no doubt be cheaper.
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Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while; you could miss it.
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 13, 2005 at 1:42 PM
alright well i just got 1 at a local wire making shop or something and got all the cable i needed, but the only thing i didn't get was a coonector for the 8 gauge wire to the battery.........i had no idea what size i needed so the guy told me to go take this little measering thingy out to my car to see.....it looked like the one that fit was size 18?? metric maybe?? i have no idea it seemed to be the one to fit over the top of the positive part of the battery and so i took it in and he said that they didn't have anything that size to fit an 8 gauge wire........so i figure that either i measured the wrong thing and gave him the wrong size because ithe place is like a 10x10 room that they sell stuff from with a freakin huge warehouse of just parts like im looking for, or they really didn't have the connector i need.......so if thats the case where can i get em? and if the other one is right how can i find out what size i really need.......oh ya and by the way i didn't take any connections off the battery to measure it, do i need to? plz respond thanks
Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: November 14, 2005 at 12:58 PM
Stop in at your local stereo shop, tell them you need an 8 gauge ring terminal, and ask if someone will look to see what size you need. They'll probably have a choice with either a 1/4" inner diameter, or a 5/16" inner diameter hole. You can even use a socket set to see what will work.
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My ex once told me I have a perfect face for radio.
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: November 14, 2005 at 10:39 PM
will do, but does that measurement i took last time sound at all correct to you or familar on the sort of scale you are talking about or does it just not make sense? i think i remember it being 18 metric or something......
Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: November 15, 2005 at 4:01 AM
I'm not sure how that works- 18 millimeters is nearly 3/4 of an inch, so I don't think that's it.
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My ex once told me I have a perfect face for radio.
Posted By: devastater99
Date Posted: January 04, 2006 at 4:04 PM
before everything, i have a 98' Corrolla LE
I'm planning to upgrade my stock speaker system with a much more powerful one.......
but before i ask about that i don't really understand much about certain specifications of speakers and want to know more about them before i drop a few hundred bucks on some..............at speakers i have looked at some say 3 channel and some four channel, i'm not really sure what that means, also RMS wattage...? i've seen speakers that are labeled 500 watt and 250 watt RMS......what is its meaning?? honestly i don't really know much about these specifications on them........like what things effect what in a speaker....?
ohm resistance...........
frequency, pretty sure thats the range of sound the speaker is capable of, does that have to do with the channels?
RMS wattage
amps......
i sort of get what they are but don't get what qualities they effect in a speakers performance.......so could someone please collaberate for me? ok heres what i have and heres what i want.......
i have a 350 Watt sub woofer with an amp for it (350 Watt). i used an 8 gauge wire to power it from the battery and grounded it in the trunk. (thats where the the sub and amp are) i've been looking at speakers to get for it to replace the stock speakers i currently have installed.............mostly what i have been looking at are each four stock speakers being replaced by 500 watt speakers, attached to a 2000 Watt amp in the trunk.....is there some way to connect that 8 gauge with to like a power distribution block or circuit breaker and then reattach power to the 350 Watt amp and then another one to the 2000 watt amp for the speakers.....or is that waaaaaaay to much for an 8 gauge wire to handle......if it is i could probably run a smaller gauge wire ................and then could i wire the ground to the frame in the trunk?
oh ya nd i've posted here before asking for help installing that sub........if any of the info on it helps heres the link to it.......... https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=65862&PN=1&get=last
thanks for reading my huge freakin post and please post!!! any and all comments/help is appreciated....
Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: January 04, 2006 at 10:23 PM
In general, stay away from 3 and 4 way speakers. More is not always better. Try to stick with name brands and give them a listen before making a decision. RMS power is the amount of power a speaker can continuously handle- or the amount of power an amplifier can continuously cleanly provide. Ohms- click on ohms law on the left hand side of this page near the top. Lower frequencies are referred to as bass and higher frequencies are referred to as treble. Humans can generally hear between 20 to 20 kHz. If you plan on running that much wattage, use 2 gauge wire or bigger and run to a distribution block. Yes, you can ground to the frame in your trunk. Remember to upgrade your alternator, and do a search on the big 3. ------------- My ex once told me I have a perfect face for radio.
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