New alpine head unit sub blows main fuse ???

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Mar 20, 2010 | 03:17 AM

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iamsuperbleeder

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Originally Posted by Donsway

Take the speaker wires loose from the Sony amp, then make sure your ground in tight with no strands crossing over to the power side on the amp. The same goes for the power wire. How do you have the Alpine hooked to the Sony RCAs? if so unhook them. Now that the amp only has a ground, a power, and a remote wire hooked to it. Put power (12 volts) to the remote on the Sony. If it blows a fuse, the amp needs replaced. Sounds like it has nothing to do with the Alpine.

As far as the stock amp's remote, don't mess with it till you find out what is going on with the Sony. Will make it easier for poeple to help if not having to think about those rear speakers. Pics of how this is setup would be very nice.

Here is what I have in my truck now, I love stereos....

http://www.carstereo.com/installs/ph...w=1&maxrows=12

I like the speaker holder-downers

although this pic kinda scares me

I'm running a 1000watt Sony tucked under the seat through a 2 farad cap, and pushing a 10" Sony sub, and it freek'n kicks!

But I'm running a Jenson HU, and I've no issues with blowing fuses though

I agree with the recent above reccommendations; pull the RCA plugs and turn it on for a few minutes and see if it still does it

Last edited by iamsuperbleeder; Mar 20, 2010 at 03:21 AM.

Mar 20, 2010 | 07:37 AM

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Donsway

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SPL guys are known for their clean installs as you can see in that pic.LOL NOT!!! Man that setup was in the 150db range and would hurt when it hit. Not bad for a work truck that pulls parade floats (the reason for it having to be loud.) When I did that install it was one piece at a time so it got thrown in. Now it is a clean install not so much copper showing, sound deadening, and still in the 150db range.

In that pic you posted that sub on the right has 2 of those LA Sound cad 2000 amps on it. The sub is a dual 2 ohm voice coil with a amp on each coil. It is one of the first PowerBass Extremes that were made (bulletproof). Rated at 1600watts (800 RMS) those amps where pushing around 3000watts (1500 RMS) to that one sub. IT LOVED IT!!!! Wipers would jump on the windshield.

But that was the good old days. Now it is all changed around, lots better stuff. Had 2 Treo 15s in there but pulled one of those and put a PowerBass 12 back in. WOW is all I can say about the sound. Hits the low, and high bass so everything is heard in a song.

If I ever get my 85 Toy going (just got the block back

) I'm going to try and fit one of the Treos in a ported box behide the seat. Dang Treo SSIs are deep subs so going to be tight. Sorry for the long post but rain has me inside with nothing to do.

Still like to see how Hunter's amp is doing. Know how it is to be down without your tunes.

Mar 20, 2010 | 07:48 AM

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Donsway

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Had to show a better pic of it, you picked the worst one...

Mar 20, 2010 | 11:48 AM

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hunter4runner

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ok so with the 40amp fuse inline (i'm out of 30's) the power and ground both good, touching the remote to the power for 12vs the amp comes on for a second then shuts off,
what does that mean? (it blows a 25amp fuse too btw)