Craziest thing..

[Tuner923]

The craziest thing happened today. So little back ground. I installed some subs monday night, all that night the system worked perfectly. tuesday the system worked perfectly. this morning when i drove to work the system worked perfectly. I was getting ready to leave work to go get breakfast and I started my car... a couple warnings flashed on the DIC and the dinger went ballistic. all that i remember that came on: service airbag, esc off, service traction, ice possble, headlights off. so i figured maybe it was a bad start or something stupid like that. I turned off the the ignition and removed the key... engine remained running for about 10-15 secounds... WTF! i did this about 10 times same result then i shut it off and unplugged the remote wire of my amp which is ran to the fuse for the windshield wipers. I started it with the amp off and it stopped the only thing that came on was the lock light so then i shut it off, it didn't remain running like it had been and I restarted. after i restarted it was fine. After few hours and a few short trips here and there I replaced the remote wire for the amp and have been jamming to some tunes all day with out a hitch... so i ask WTF? poltergeist?

I am charging my cam now and putting it in the car so if it happens this time i get a funny vid from it.

 

[SportLt]

maybe your subs are haunted

 

[YelloEye]

DooD thats awesome lmao!

 

[Tuner923]

while it was happening i was saying to myself "holy shit the guys are not going to believe this shit!".

---------- Post added at 07:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:40 PM ----------

maybe your subs are haunted

most logical of logics

 

[Tom]

Maybe toyota made your ECM

 

[Tuner923]

lol

 

[FASTL61]

For some reason your Amp is backfeeding into the fuse block and fuckin shit up,run your remote wire to something else like the sunroof.

 

[Tuner923]

For some reason your Amp is backfeeding into the fuse block and fuckin shit up,run your remote wire to something else like the sunroof.

any idea why it would do that?

 

[FASTL61]

its possible that the amp is backfeeding into the fuse block keeping it powered up after you turn it off until the capacitors run out of juice.My s-10 did that.just have to move your remote wire to something like the sunroof or something

 

[YelloEye]

its possible that the amp is backfeeding into the fuse block keeping it powered up after you turn it off until the capacitors run out of juice.My s-10 did that.just have to move your remote wire to something like the sunroof or something

Or you could run a diode to eliminate the backfeed all together and not have to find a new place to find power. Diodes only allow power to travel one way thereby eliminating the problem you're having. I did this to my 1st gen projectors so I had both sets of bulbs on with high, but only the lows for low.

 

[Tuner923]

its possible that the amp is backfeeding into the fuse block keeping it powered up after you turn it off until the capacitors run out of juice.My s-10 did that.just have to move your remote wire to something like the sunroof or something

yea i get that part, i'm wondering if i can trouble shoot why the amp is sending feed back to the fuse box

 

[FASTL61]

I dunno try moving the remote wire 1st

 

[Tuner923]

I dunno try moving the remote wire 1st

i'll do this during lunch if i get a chance

 

[cobalt123]

weird

 

[Black_Dub]

I hooked my remote wire to the brown acc wire under steering column so that way u can put a switch on it as well to turn ur amp on and off as u please haven't haf a single problem and its been hooked that way for about 2yrs now

 

[YelloEye]

yea i get that part, i'm wondering if i can trouble shoot why the amp is sending feed back to the fuse box

No clue, bad amp? low quality amp?

 

[bryson87]

my adv what my friend did was put it on his fog light fuze so everytime the fogs are on he has boom no fogs no boom. might come in handy on post for you

 

[newfiedan]

An amp should never backfeed into a remote wire period, if it does then its got internal failure. Futher to that the remote wire should be wired to the deck not a fuse block unless there is a reason for it. Using a proper fuse tap like bussman's BP/HHH is the safest and best means of tapping into a fuse block. I would never run a remote wire into ign source unless it had a blocking diode or a fuse in it to protect that circuit, you can burn up wires pretty easily if they are not protected and if the amp is feeding back into the remote wire that wire is not protected nor is whatever it is hooking into including the harness you tied into. I would be checking into the remote wire make sure it can not touch of the + feed wire for the amp and that they are well seperated. Fuse that wire at the amp if its going to be an issue with an inline fuse soldered in place and a 5 amp fuse.

 

[bryson87]

this guy sounds smart go with his idea

 

[Tuner923]

An amp should never backfeed into a remote wire period, if it does then its got internal failure. Futher to that the remote wire should be wired to the deck not a fuse block unless there is a reason for it. Using a proper fuse tap like bussman's BP/HHH is the safest and best means of tapping into a fuse block. I would never run a remote wire into ign source unless it had a blocking diode or a fuse in it to protect that circuit, you can burn up wires pretty easily if they are not protected and if the amp is feeding back into the remote wire that wire is not protected nor is whatever it is hooking into including the harness you tied into. I would be checking into the remote wire make sure it can not touch of the + feed wire for the amp and that they are well seperated. Fuse that wire at the amp if its going to be an issue with an inline fuse soldered in place and a 5 amp fuse.

I was hoping you were going to reply to this! this guy is awesome. he really knows his shit. i vote newfiedan for audio/video/stereo mod

i would ultimately like to have the remote wire connected into the back of the deck. but only have the stock h/u not sure how to remove it or to wire it to switch on the amp