TomLee

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I spliced my signal wire into the 12v lighter socket wire, and it worked great for a couple days and now it just suddenly lost all power! Whats up with that? If i blew a fuse doesnt that mean all the things on that harness would have lost power? The green leds for the 12v socket and the ashtray still come on!


Ahhh this keep hapenning to me What am i doing wrong?

TomLee

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Ok i replaced the fuse but it just burns up everytime....should i reconnect the signal wire to a differnt power source?

sbgs400

you probably have too much draw on the one circuit now. if you're sure everything is wired correctly then you can bump the fuse up to a higher rating.

TomLee

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what would you reccomend?

the stock fuse is 15amps, i attached a signal wire that goes to a kenwood 6202 (dunno if any of this info helps).

TomLee

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Nevermind, it will poabbly void any warrenty i have and i dont want to over heat the wires and cause a fire or something. I dont know what to wire it to though =(

GSoup

You shouldn't be powering an amp via the cigarette lighter. What you should do is wire it directly to the battery with the proper wiring and fuses. not sure exactly how you wired it up but you should read up on how to do it from here. Hope this helps.
http://www.caraudiohelp.com/how_to_i..._a_car_amp.htm

TomLee

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the amp is wired directly to the battery, its the signal cable that was wired to the 12v cig lighter.

sbgs400

if you're talking about the remote turn just use the same one the radio uses.

GSoup

Yup. The remote should be wired to the radio harness not the lighter.