My sub works fine when I play music through the radio, but when I switch to my cd player, the amp cuts out. I think I might be somehow overdriving the input on the amp and it is clipping but my settings are pretty low. Any other suggestions on why it would instantly shut off like this? Dave
It shuts off because the remote turn-on wire to the amplifier is connected to the power antenna wire behind your head unit. The power antenna wire is only activated when the tuner is selected. You need to switch the remote wire to the blue/white wire from the head unit (currently you're using the blue wire). This is the true remote output, and will activate the amp whenever the head unit is powered on.
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Thank you so much, this helped me get rid of this problem in an easy 2 minutes!
WOW!! thanks alot guys this helped out alot. i was getting very agrivated at this problem!!! It's fixed now!
Feb 11 2008. thanks! I just installed my Alpine in my old Toyota 4Runner. All was good except for this very problem (tuner worked on all 4 speakers, but CD/Ipod didn't. Swapped the blue > blue for blue/white > blue and ...voila!
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Thanks a lot for the response, I will try it out after work:D
Solved, thanks a bunch. It was weird because the wire that I used said power antenna was off a circuit city only vehicle specific harness and it labeled it as power antenna even though it was remote. So I got the true wiring diagram and pinout and switched them and problem solved, thanks again.
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