Wiring my EQ
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2594 Registered: Mar-06 | I'm getting an EQS and I want to know where i should take the power/ground from.....(i can't just go from my distro's can i? and i can just use my same remote wire right? thanks |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1964 Registered: Mar-06 | you can use the power from your distro and yeah, as long as you dont have mulitple amps on your HU REM, just use that. If you have 2 amps on your HU REM, just put a relay on it and run the EQ on your relay. Dont wanna put too much strain on your REM wire |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1965 Registered: Mar-06 | oh yeah, and just find bare metal behind your dash, or wherever your EQ is being mounted, for the ground |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3367 Registered: Mar-06 | the D=Block is fine. and yes, you can use the rem. however, if you are using a lot of amps and eqs on the rem, you may want to step up to a relay. and again, that can be juiced from the D-Block as well. |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2595 Registered: Mar-06 | could you link me to a relay i have a sub amp and comp amp, so what size wire would i run from the distro to the eq? like any gauge? and yea that means i'd have three things on my remote wire....link please? thanks alot |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2596 Registered: Mar-06 | trunkmount btw |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2599 Registered: Mar-06 | bump please |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2600 Registered: Mar-06 | bump for marc or capps or someone |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3369 Registered: Mar-06 | http://www.the12volt.com/relays/relays.asp section 36 http://www.bcae1.com/ *Pin 30* +12 Volts (Battery +) *Pin 87* Amplifiers' remote turn-on terminal *Pin 86* Head unit remote turn-on lead *Pin 85* Ground *Pin 87a* No connection (SPDT only) |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3370 Registered: Mar-06 | and if you install one, use it to turn on all amps and eqs |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6086 Registered: Jul-06 | NEVER power anything with a HU remote wire! Any more than 0.1 amp can fry the circuit in the HU |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2601 Registered: Mar-06 | i'm not gonna lie, i dont raelly understand. |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3382 Registered: Mar-06 |  |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1972 Registered: Mar-06 | thats it mark. Basically the realy takes a power in, your remote in (to trigger the power) and then the power out and a ground. The rem doesnt send power to the amps, it tells the relay to send power (from the 12v source), to the things you have wired up to the relay. What size amps are you running now? with that you can figure out how big of a relay to use. |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2602 Registered: Mar-06 | i'm gonna be running a DD C2 (150x2 @4) and a DD M1 (rated 600@1 ohm but does arund 1500@1 ohm) and then an EQS... could you link me to a good one. thanks for that diagram marc now i totally get it. |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3385 Registered: Mar-06 | just go to a local car parts store. get a bosch 20 or 30 amp one. A 15 amp one will work too. You dont need a high amp one, cause its just the rem signal, like .5ma each, not the amps power. expect to pay no more then $5 bucks. |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1978 Registered: Mar-06 | oh yeah, I wasnt thinking when I was trying to figure out how big of a relay he needed. haha, Im a dumbazz. 15 amp would be PLENTY |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3386 Registered: Mar-06 | yea, I didnt want to make a big deal out of it. What your thinking of is a solinoid. used to turn on and off large power demand equipment. As you see in the pic, the solinoid is turning my amps ground on/off via a relay (blue wire on front)controlling it. (I have a problem with it not shutting off, so this is a work around solution)  |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1979 Registered: Mar-06 | actually I was thinking about fuse size. haha |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3388 Registered: Mar-06 | "What size amps are you running now? with that you can figure out how big of a relay to use." "actually I was thinking about fuse size. haha" Fail |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1980 Registered: Mar-06 | ? |
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Gold Member Username: Big_edge_headMilwaukee, Wisconsin IF IT DOESNT... Post Number: 1395 Registered: Mar-07 | "What your thinking of is a solinoid. used to turn on and off large power demand equipment" a relays function is basicaly the same thing. to turn on a high voltage load with a low voltage input. a solenoid is basically a relay. |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1984 Registered: Mar-06 | what did you mean by "fail" Marc? |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 3389 Registered: Mar-06 | since you want to know, you said you needed to know the amps current draw to figure out the relay size. Current draw does not apply when using a relay for hu rem. and they you said you were thinking about the fuse size. again, its a low amprage draw, so kwowing amps draw does not play into it. a 5-15 amp fuse would be fine. and yes, a solinoid is a big relay. but used when there is high amprage involved. a regular relay would not handle current over say 50 amps. Thats why the are used in starters. High demand current apps. relax, i was just messing with you. your advice was sound. But on a side note, ground the eq to the same ground spot as the amps or HU. less chance of ground loop issues. |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 1997 Registered: Mar-06 | I said I was thinking about fuse size, I meant I was asking his amp size so I could tell him how big of a fuse to use, not that we needed his fue size to tell him how big of a relay he needs. I confused myself when I was typing the reply, thinking we were trying to figue out how big of a fuse he needed on his power wire. Just me not thinking. |
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