Question about Jl Audio 250/1 Car Audio Amplifier

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I have a JL 1200A mono amp and has been working fine- today i was cleaning up the wiring mess i had. well i had disconnected the RCA's that go to the amp and had just finish tightining the ground wire... i pluged the rca's back in but accidently placed them into the pre-outs instead of the Ch1. Ch2. - redlight flashed... i tried just correcting the rcas i have a green light... but no bump from the subs... Plz help!

Anonymous Sep 17, 2007

well i tried using a smaller amp that i had laying around.... not very strong tho... i won't push the 12's. but it works ... so i don't think it would be the stereo...

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Try hooking an mp3 player or some other source into the amp (in place of your car stereo)while the car is running to test it. You may have damaged the output of the radio. If not report the results here.

Posted on Sep 15, 2007

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