Amp won't put out sound

Hello, I am installing Pioneer deck with a big kicker amp and 2 10 inch kicker subs. The amp is one of those duals amps. So i plugged the RCA cables into the "rear" amp, which has the bass control, and the sub wires in. And the amp turns on (both the "power" light and the red light on the top of the amp) and its getting its full twelve volts. (and yes the remote wire is hooked up to the deck) but the subs are not getting ANY juice at all. I even took one out of the box to make sure the connections were good (by using my little voltmeter thing) the stereo wires are getting 0.15 volts coming out of the amp. (if that helps at all) and continues to feed that much to the subs. I have played with all the switches and knobs on the amp, moved the stereo wires around ( + to -, - to +), checked the ground, tried different RCA cables, tried different RCA outlets (by the way they are plugged into the SW (sub woofer) outlet on the deck)I'm wondering if anyone can think of something that i havent, cause its driving me crazy. Thanks.

emmond89 Mar 14, 2009

i have a sony xplod 600 watt and everythings hooked up right it seems theres no signal to the sub it doesnt make a sound at all
emmond89 Mar 14, 2009

i have a sony xplod 600 watt amp and all wires hooked up right it just doesnt seeem like theres any signal to the sub

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Hello, if you leave me your email I can send you the user manual for this amp. Best regards, Arpi

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