ground the remote?????????????

you do this often?

 

if good, take a piece of wire and touch it from power on the amp to remote on the amp. what this is doing is giving the amp the turn on voltage it needs. if the power light doesn't come on then. remove the amp from the car and use jumper cables from the battery + to power, - to ground and a piece of wire from power to remote. if it doesn't work then you need new amp or to get this one fixxed


when i do whats in bold should i have anything else connected or should i do it like in my house...

and the power is the battary right..

 

ok i went out and tried the wire from remote to power...and it powered on...so u said that means the remote is bad from the radio..wat doest that mean and what do i have to do to fix it...and thanks for all your help!!

 

the remote is the turn on from the radio, it comes on when the radio is on, there maybe a fuse on that wire that goes to the radio most likely not. the fuse is most likely in the radio. so you can have the radio fixxed or find another 12volt that comes on with the key and hook it up to the remote. the down fall to this is the amp would be on if the key was on, even if you had the radio off you might hear a hiss coming from the speakers

 

sorry but im confused..so that wire is bad or the connection for the wire..

 

that's hard to say without being there. i would guess a fuse is blown. i would guess you haven't pulled the radio out of the car and the fuses you're checking are in the fuse panel or the main power fuse for the amp. the fuse i'm thinking of would be behind the radio(this is an aftermarket radio right). the wire might say remote or power ant. it is an output from the radio to the amp, but odds are fuse is in the radio. you can check the wire and connection but to do that the radio is going to have to come out. so that needs tobe the next step. you got to pull the radio out to check the wires and fuses behind it

 

i still got the shaker 500 hu..i pulled it out couple days ago..how do u check the fuses on that...

 

well i haven't worked with the shaker, but i think the remote turn on that comes out of it is only 5volts(stock amps only need 5volts to turn on.) your aftermarket ampneeds 12volts. the only way to check it is to find the wire at the back of the radio and use a volt meter to see if you a voltage on it when the radio is off. but back to the 5volts and 12volts turn ons. if you'returning onan aftermarket amp with only 5volts even if you fix it, it's going to go out again. your amp needs more power then the radio is giving it. you'll need to find another 12volt turn on source. the radio should have the same kind of setup to turn it on(power, ground and remote turn on) if you could find the remote turn on for the radio you could use it to turn on the amp too. but you need a voltmeter to find the wire.

 

ok thanks
gonna go check it out!

 

ok i went out and removed the radio...what a pain..

oh all the wires look fine!!
im waiting for my dad to get home
so i can pull out my old radio from his car...
gonna see if i can work with that..

also the line out has 2 brown wires that are attach to nothing..is that normal


and if i get the new head unit..i dont need the line out converter..so should i take that out..

please help asap

thanks