Anyone help me out here please.
Got given a free Sub & Amp, and tried to put them in my sons motor today.
Essentially I've wired it all up, but the Amp kicks into Protection mode pretty quick.
Sometimes it'll last 10 seconds before kicking in to protect, or sometimes it'll last a minute but never longer.
Wondering why, I've checked the inline fuse from the battery and this is all fine, I've double checked the remote wire into the headunit and this is solid. Also the connections into the AMP seem fine.
The ground seems OK to be, I found a hinge for the rear car seats that's boltong to the frame of the vehicle, so scrated off the paint and used this. At first I was using a metal ring pressed onto the grnd cable and then onto the hinge. The nut and bolt I used were some kind of steel with a black coating, so then added a washer either side and scratched the paintwork off down even more, so it's connected fine.
I guess the only things it could be are
* Hinge doesn't actually ground too well?
* Headunit is too shit and can't provide the powere via the RCAs (headunit is a £10 Media player form Ebay, so very very basic!)
The fact it does power on, and does play for very short times, says the Amp itself and fuse are OK, the Sub does actually work, and that the connections to it power wise are all OK.
Anyone any input at all?
Few pictures to show what I mean RE the hinge it's grounded too.
http://gyazo.com/b10bd89880a6b9d77f3f81a2d7962913
http://gyazo.com/4f721d8980c5a1c7d916aebd5dbda1ab
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