ok so i put in CDT HD-62's in my car yesterday and everything is hooked up right. took it for a test drive last night and everything sounded awesome. however, today when i get in my car and turn the radio on they sound all crackly and when i turned it off, i heard a nasty kinda popping sound when it turned off the amps... i set the gains using a dmm.
so i took my car to a shop just now and the guy didnt know what was happening. it would sound find with the car on and everthing, but i started driving and my speakers kept poppin. so he said for me to just drop it off later in the week and they are gonna totally re-do my car.
" so i took my car to a shop just now and the guy didnt know what was happening. it would sound find with the car on and everthing, but i started driving and my speakers kept poppin. so he said for me to just drop it off later in the week and they are gonna totally re-do my car."
You can check connections and wire by taking another set of speakers and two pieces of short wire and connecting them to the amp, see if the problem goes away.
You can test for a bad amp by connecting a different amp in it's place.........
i just thought about this but do you think it could be that im usuing to small a wire? its 18awg and im runnin 140rms. i have a bunch of 14awg layin around.
maybe thats it? im running too much on too small a awg?
Too small of wire wouldn't cause that crackling and popping sound. But M.S. is right i'd swap it to 16awg. check your wiring from the speakers to the amp. make sure there isnt any wire touching the chassis. also, before you go spending a ton of money for a shop to re do your car.. change your rca's if you have an extra set around or if a buddy has a set just connect it to you head unit and amp and see if it still happens. What kind of head unit do you have? if its a pioneer maybe you need to ground your headunits rca's. also check and make sure you have a tight connection at the speaker.
How do you have you Rca's ran now? is it by your power wire or anything? maybe your hearing engine noise?
nah its not the rca's..and its a pioneer, i already grounded the rcas tho because the headunit was doing what. its not engine noise either. im thinking its a speaker wire problem tho. ill get some other speakers on it today and check it because i dont wanna throw down a bunch of cash for a shop to redo stuff, thats why im trying to think of every problem possible.
well i took off my door and it looked as tho a wire was getting like crimped or really squished so i moved i re-did it. and it doesnt pop or anything. could that have been the whole problem?
ok i have no clue on anything about subs all i know is that there awesome so my uncle gave me these two pioneer 450w imps i think their 12" hes a machanic so he got the subs out of a totaled car or something like that anyways the van i have now is huge and it was previously wired up for two 8" mtx's on an mtx 4250D amp with a lightweight cable that looks too small it looks like a cable that you use to hook up speakers to a radio. The subs came with a punch 200 amp mounted on the top and i really dont know what i should do to make the imps work with what i have or if its even possible because the last set of subs that were in the car stopped working for some odd reason that i could never figure out i checked the fuzes and everything seemed to be fine so basically what i need to know is what could be wrong with what i currently have in the car and what i would need to do to figure out whats wrong. Also which amp should i use and is there a way to make what i have work