Currently I have a sound system in my car. I have the remote wire in the amp crossed into the power cable so I can bump till I figure out where I should splice my remote wire into? Is there anything in the trunk I can run and splice it into? Please help!
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Remote wire questions from amplifier
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zorrex
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...Why not from the HU?:shrug:
getsum111
Yes I am a Pirate, 200 years too late.
You can also tap into the fuse box, into any fuse that has switched power. You don't want to have your amp on when the car is off.
fordsvt98
Veteran CEG'er
power antenna out from HU. Im assuming your HU's remote out is fried?
getsum111
Yes I am a Pirate, 200 years too late.
Some HU's won't turn on antenna if you're playing CD, AUX, etc. You need a power source that will always be "on".
This is what you should do....
This is what you shouldn't do... This is known as "Ghetto Rigging" and is not the way to hook up a system for remote turn on.
Way to catch yourself :Thumbs up:
Here is an image I drew for someone else on here, let us just apply it to here with some slight modifcations...
This should shed some light on your hook up woes...
fordsvt98
Veteran CEG'er
Some HU's won't turn on antenna if you're playing CD, AUX, etc. You need a power source that will always be "on".
Im assuming he knows that lol.
You could put a switch on it, but that's ghetto too.
Cheap new decks Alpine/Pioneer whatev are like 80 bucks on ebay.
And to avoid the "pop" you might get from a ghetto job, I like to think its worth it
Unless your just too lazy to tap the remote wire.
Im assuming he knows that lol.
You could put a switch on it, but that's ghetto too.
Cheap new decks Alpine/Pioneer whatev are like 80 bucks on ebay.
And to avoid the "pop" you might get from a ghetto job, I like to think its worth it
Unless your just too lazy to tap the remote wire.
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zorrex
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My remote wire is not connected to the harness. There is a hookup in the back of the deck, next to the RCA pre-out (I only have one). I just used the crappiest old speaker wire I had and ran it into the REM of the amp...It powers the lights on the amp and subs as well as turns the amp on.
fordsvt98
Veteran CEG'er
My remote wire is not connected to the harness. There is a hookup in the back of the deck.
Yeah uhhh thats where you hook it to......to the REMOTE wire from the DECK harness.
Are you saying the wire is yanked out of the deck harness so its a empty hole er somethin'? "My remote wire is not connected to the harness"
elaborate.
Yeah uhhh thats where you hook it to......to the REMOTE wire from the DECK harness.
Are you saying the wire is yanked out of the deck harness so its a empty hole er somethin'? "My remote wire is not connected to the harness"
elaborate.
Well you're talking about the power antenna turn-on wire. If you look at my diagram, there hooked up to either the amp turn-on (blue/white) or the switched 12V (red) wire. Which are wires that are always on when the radio is on.... just that one won't shut off when the radio is turned off and the ignition is on...
Umm... IDK WTF you are talking about, but I have yet to see any radio that is setup like that... why don't you take a picture.... maybe then we could all understand...
fordsvt98
Veteran CEG'er
No I believe getsum is completely right, yes the PWR ANT out MIGHT juice in CD mode, I believe I had a panasonic that DID NOT juice the line when it was on CD. So, try it and see whats the big deal?
The units I've worked with that have both power antenna and Amp turn on, the power antenna wire ALWAYS turns off when the cd source is on..... On the HU's that I've worked on that have only had Power Antenna, they have ALWAYS shut off when a CD source is selected. I remember one of Sony's I did, it was a low end CDX-210 I believe, and it only had a blue wire, and the car it was going into had a factory amplified system, tried using the single blue wire as the amp turn on and put a CD in and I lost all my sound I had with the radio on.... Had to go back and hook it up to the switched 12volts circuit. The sad thing is that the deck's come with the pin for the spot with the blue/white wire, but the harness doesn't have a wire there... I've been meaning to try a different harness out on one of those low end decks and see if it actually works with a different harness from the same brand.....
fordsvt98
Veteran CEG'er
Ya I know it works 99.9 percent of the time like steeda said....maybe one certain model deck may not do it.....but usually its juiced......