I am installing two amps in my Max. Question. Should I connect both blue remote turn on leads to the Head Unit output? Is this enough power to turn on both amps, or is there another altenative to hook it up?

 

that'll work just fine.

 

Only takes a tiny bit of juice to turn them on.

PJ

 

Thanks guys

 

Sometimes that isn't enough I got a wiring diagram for you but you have to e-mail for the pic since I can't post it.

 

It's normally enough to turn on an EQ and a few amps. Just daisy chain. Go from the headunit to the nearest unit with turn on lead, from there to the next closest, and so on. I normally put essentially a Y receptacle on the remote if the unit to be turned on has a blue wire running from it instead of a barrier strip terminal.

 

If you do that It will eventually fry you remote turn on wire becuase it is such a small wire and can't send enough power thru the wire. I have a relay system I used it in my car and I had 4 amps and 2 EQL's running off mine.

 

Yea you only need a LIL amount to turn them on anyways. just connect the wire from headunit to one and connect that amp to the other.

 

That's odd. I had my first Alpine HU connected that way for about 9 or 10 years.

 

That's because Alpine is a great deck all others I would worry about.

 

You can see if the head unit provides the specs for the number of milliamps provided by the remote turn-on lead, then check the milliamps drawn by the turn-on lead input for all the components, and see if their sum is less than the total provided. If the turn-on lead input just goes to a relay, you can measure the resistance to compute the current (amps = 12V / # ohms).

If you're worried, you can just use a relay booster setup. Just wire the head unit's turn-on lead to the coil of a relay (and the other side of the coil to ground). Hook up power (from a fuse) to the relay's switched contact, and the relay's normally-open contact becomes your new, more powerful turn-on lead to send to all the other components.

 

I've come across headunits with internal blown remote outputs due to the use of 12V automotive relays. IMO it's better to use a device like the DEI 55000 remote power adapter...

 

Hey JMax, what do you think of that AlumaPro cap? Is it the 15-farad one? I have one of those too. I am not terribly impressed with it. Where did you mount yours?

Ryan