car on - power wire: 5 V, car off: 10V (roughly) car on - remote wire: 4 V
my grounds measure a 0.00
Now....when i turn on my car, my amps click into protect for like 1 second and then the protect light goes off. the eq only has a power light and it doesn't move.
idk what's going on. it sounds like i'm shorting out somewhere, but i have no idea where. i followed my power and grounds and they're not touching each other or any metal anywhere.
yea, at the batt and after my in-line fuse, everything reads exactly what it should. with the car off, everything still reads as it should. once i turn the car on though, voltage drops (which is the opposite of what you would think should happen)
i've tried replacing my remote wire relay and replaced my ANL fuse, but that changed nothing.
hell, with the car off, all the way to the amps and my eq, my power wire is reading over 10 volts
i mean could my RCA's have a short in them that's causing the amps to go into protect?? it seems possible, but entirely unprobable. it seems weird that the RCA's would just conk out randomly one day. bump, thanks for the input chad
Put your amps to the closest power source and run a power and ground directly from the source using the biggest wire you have around to your amp. If the voltage is fine the the amp is fine, it is defiantly your power wire since you are losing voltage. It surely is not your ground since you are losiing 10 volts after the distro block.
Maybe also try it without the distro block. The problem could lie there also.
"voltage after inline fuse (car on) = 13.9 volts voltage at distrobution block (car on) = 5.5 volts" Replace the power wire and /or D-block. You should not be losing 9 volts in