If you hook up power to your amp and speakers, and the speakers continue to pound at a fast constant rate, what does this mean?
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richhh
ANSWERS: 3
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there is a wire hooked up wrong. go back over your wireing to make sure thats it hooked up right. make sure that there is no engine noise going through your wires. if your power wire is run along the same side as your remote and rca's move your power wire to the other side of the car to get ride of some noise. check to make sure that the wires hooked up to your speakers is corrct and that you amp is hooked up correct.
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I'd guess that the amp could be bad. I immediately think of what happens when you plug a speaker into a wall outlet. (DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS! IT WILL DESTROY YOUR SPEAKER!) When it is plugged into the wall it deploys a constant 60Hz note until the speaker seizes and burns out the voice coil. A bad amp could very possibly, but not likely cause a similar effect. Also, I'd check the RCA cables. If the sheilding on the cable is cut and the ground shielding touches the positive signal lead, it can short out the cable, and change or eliminate the output from the amp.
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A broken ground in the RCA cable will cause this as well as a bad solder connection inside the amp at the RCA terminals. I have repaired hundreds of amps with this problem. Another possibility is a poor ground connection on the amps ground wire. Be certain your ground is securely connected to bare metal of the cars chassis. (scrape the paint from the metal where you ground it)
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