ok ive disconnected speaker wires and rca's, double checked the gain... same results, checked the ground, not so lucky im hopefull in the fact ive just forgotten something.
well if yer amp is turning on, yer atleast getting power to the amp, so thats good, but perhaps its insufficiant power... r u sure yer power cable can handle yer amp's current draw? and is your ground cable the same guage or thicker than yer power wire? make sure yer power wires arent getting squshed anywhere. and again make sure you've got no pos touching neg speaker wires (a short) or yer power wires for that matter.
yer RCAs won't have anything to do with yer protect light coming on.
also, check to make sure yer amp can handle the speaker load (ask if you dont know what this means).
and it may also help us to know what kind of equipment yer using. brandnames, RMS ( a.k.a. continuous, nominal) power ratings (not max power ratings), and speaker impedence (?).
snaphook
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"yer RCAs won't have anything to do with yer protect light coming on"
(sorry for the length of my post.....)
My system quit working the other day, I took a look and looks like I had a short in the ground wire in the harness up front cause the platic was brown/burnt looking. I spliced it around the harness for now and the head unit and front speakers started working. No sound from the rear at all.
Checked my amp in back and the red protect light is on. I take out the rca's light goes out, I put even one back in, the light is red again.
I have one Power Acoutics Gothic 1200 running my sub and one Splash Tunnel 800 runing two visonic 6x9's. I have one rca cable going into tthe Gothic and then one coming out of the line out to the line in on my 800 that runs my 6x9's. The 800 has a green light on it.
Any ideas on the protect light? I tried a different rca cable from my head unit to the gothic and got nothing, then I tried straight from the head unit to the 800 but still nothing. Did I blow the pre-amps on my head unit?
System was working fine for about 2years until this happened when a song on a mix cd came on and it was way louder (and I already had the vol. cranked)than song before it with heavy bass; it played for a few seconds or so and then everything just shut off.