Help? I burned up my radio somehow.
06-11-2018, 11:51 PM
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Help? I burned up my radio somehow.
I was doing a sub/amp install (kicker L7 12” with a kicker cx1200.1)
i have the 6 speaker stock system. But I just upgraded all four speakers. And then finally tonight I was doing the sub. Well I thought I had everything wired up correctly (followed the no door panel removal thread) remote wire to fuse 23 inside fuse box, tapped both sides and ran speaker wire back to my amp then ran rcas out to my sub. I have no idea what went wrong and fried whatever.
i turned the truck on and immediately my speakers were freaking out with no real sound just loud sharp noises and I couldn’t turn anything down or turn the radio off with the buttons on the dash. Then it started smoking from behind my radio (this was in all of 5-7seconds). I turned it off and unplugged everything from the amp and it did it again when I tried to turn the truck on. Now I have removed the power wire from the battery and started the truck back up and I’m fine. I don’t u deratand ahat happened. Clearly it has something to do with my 4 gauge power wire but how?
i have the 6 speaker stock system. But I just upgraded all four speakers. And then finally tonight I was doing the sub. Well I thought I had everything wired up correctly (followed the no door panel removal thread) remote wire to fuse 23 inside fuse box, tapped both sides and ran speaker wire back to my amp then ran rcas out to my sub. I have no idea what went wrong and fried whatever.
i turned the truck on and immediately my speakers were freaking out with no real sound just loud sharp noises and I couldn’t turn anything down or turn the radio off with the buttons on the dash. Then it started smoking from behind my radio (this was in all of 5-7seconds). I turned it off and unplugged everything from the amp and it did it again when I tried to turn the truck on. Now I have removed the power wire from the battery and started the truck back up and I’m fine. I don’t u deratand ahat happened. Clearly it has something to do with my 4 gauge power wire but how?
Last edited by xcremente; 06-11-2018 at 11:53 PM.
06-12-2018, 12:29 AM
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None of the radio controls work at all on the radio either. The screen is working but none of the hard buttons below the screen work and like I said no sound what so ever.
06-12-2018, 10:36 AM
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Sounds like you hooked up something wrong and shorted out your radio. Are you sure you tapped into the correct wires for your high level signal?
If your power wire was shorted out to the chassis, it would have blown the inline fuse that you installed with your 4 gauge wire near your battery.
How do RCA's go to your sub? You should have tapped the speaker wires, then plugged those into the high level-inputs on your amplifier or into a Line out converter (which turns the signal into an RCA), then speaker outputs into your subwoofer. If you hooked those rear speaker taps into the speaker outputs of your amplifier, you screwed up bad.
If your power wire was shorted out to the chassis, it would have blown the inline fuse that you installed with your 4 gauge wire near your battery.
How do RCA's go to your sub? You should have tapped the speaker wires, then plugged those into the high level-inputs on your amplifier or into a Line out converter (which turns the signal into an RCA), then speaker outputs into your subwoofer. If you hooked those rear speaker taps into the speaker outputs of your amplifier, you screwed up bad.
06-12-2018, 12:19 PM
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Sounds like you hooked up something wrong and shorted out your radio. Are you sure you tapped into the correct wires for your high level signal?
If your power wire was shorted out to the chassis, it would have blown the inline fuse that you installed with your 4 gauge wire near your battery.
How do RCA's go to your sub? You should have tapped the speaker wires, then plugged those into the high level-inputs on your amplifier or into a Line out converter (which turns the signal into an RCA), then speaker outputs into your subwoofer. If you hooked those rear speaker taps into the speaker outputs of your amplifier, you screwed up bad.
If your power wire was shorted out to the chassis, it would have blown the inline fuse that you installed with your 4 gauge wire near your battery.
How do RCA's go to your sub? You should have tapped the speaker wires, then plugged those into the high level-inputs on your amplifier or into a Line out converter (which turns the signal into an RCA), then speaker outputs into your subwoofer. If you hooked those rear speaker taps into the speaker outputs of your amplifier, you screwed up bad.
i ran the wires from the hogh level input to the +, - speaker terminals on the amp. And then ran RCAs out of the output to the sub. Otherwise I don’t see where the input would go unless I brought the hogh level input together and then tapped them into a RCA and then plugged them into my RCA inputs. But I figured that was for if I had a aftermarket headunit and was running then from the back of the headunit.
06-12-2018, 12:22 PM
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Sounds like you hooked up something wrong and shorted out your radio. Are you sure you tapped into the correct wires for your high level signal?
If your power wire was shorted out to the chassis, it would have blown the inline fuse that you installed with your 4 gauge wire near your battery.
How do RCA's go to your sub? You should have tapped the speaker wires, then plugged those into the high level-inputs on your amplifier or into a Line out converter (which turns the signal into an RCA), then speaker outputs into your subwoofer. If you hooked those rear speaker taps into the speaker outputs of your amplifier, you screwed up bad.
If your power wire was shorted out to the chassis, it would have blown the inline fuse that you installed with your 4 gauge wire near your battery.
How do RCA's go to your sub? You should have tapped the speaker wires, then plugged those into the high level-inputs on your amplifier or into a Line out converter (which turns the signal into an RCA), then speaker outputs into your subwoofer. If you hooked those rear speaker taps into the speaker outputs of your amplifier, you screwed up bad.
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06-12-2018, 01:37 PM
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Damn sorry to hear bud. Might have been a better route to go with an installer to avoid issues like this. It would be cheaper in the end I think instead of learning the hard way. I'm not trying to rub it in. Just hoping you have someone else do it for you next time.
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06-12-2018, 01:39 PM
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So what I should have done is wired the two positives from the speaker together and then the two negatives together and bought the RCA to speaker wire adapter and connected them to that and then plugged them into the input rca plugs on the amp?
Gotta learn somehow. The radios don’t look too bad to replace so that’s a plus.
Gotta learn somehow. The radios don’t look too bad to replace so that’s a plus.
06-12-2018, 02:05 PM
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Yes correct.
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