jay_johnson

I have some serious stereo problems goin on inside my '95. I am running very low power (under 150w), so I shouldn't have any problems.... (shouldnt)

I have a KAC-629 running bridged to a 10" KFC-WS253... now i had a problem when i first installed it with a bad ground, but i fixed that very easily. Well I had it all in my car for about two months, and it worked fine. It gave me much more bass for one ten than I had expected... but anyways... it just decided to stop working one day. I checked all my connections and the install is fine, somebody please help me out with some other problem-shooting ideas...

Thanks

jmax

Check the fuse at the amp, then check the voltage at the amp. If the amp isn't getting 11 volts or more it probably won't turn on. If you have > 11 volts at the battery but more than a couple tenths drop between there and the amp then there is something wrong with either the power or ground wire. Also could be the remote turn on, bad RCA's, or bad RCA terminals at the HU or Amp.

jay_johnson

the light on the amp is on... so i dont think it has to do with power... I am not using the rca terminals, because i am using the speaker level inputs with cables running to my rear bose.

jmax

Okay, you have the bose system and you are trying to use an amp with speaker level inputs? There could be a problem with that setup. I don't have bose so I don't know the specifics of how it works. But I believe that the bose system has a seperate amp for each speaker, so where did you get your "speaker level" inputs? It is also possible that you burnt out the bose amp by connecting it to a speaker level input. It could have overheated by being sent into a low impedance load. I sort of blew up a tv once by trying to hook it up to a home stereo using a speaker level adapter. The amp in the tv needed about a 12 or 16 ohm load. Can't remember specifically.

And of course it could be a speaker, or speaker wiring problem.