stereo install help

[rsmith85]

Hey guys, new to the forum and after searching I guess this would be the best place to ask.

Today I installed an eclipse deck, checked and made sure all the speakers worked. Hours later I installed my alpine amp and rockford sub. As soon as I turned the ignition the only thing that would work was the sub. I am now getting no sound from any of the speakers.

I pulled the deck back out and found one of the wires from the wiring harness to the deck wires came out of the crimp connector. I reconnected it and found another, that one was also reconnected.

I checked all other wires and found nothing. I cannot figure out what is going on, any help would be appreciated.

 

[Riff Raff]

Make sure your Internal amp on your headunit is turned on

 

[rsmith85]

I went through every option available on the HU and was unable to find any way to turn on or off the internal amp. Model 8443. It was bought in 2003. The only thing I could find that on the right rear corner you can see circuit board and I cant tell if it was trimmed, or if a corner was broken off.

I reinstalled the factory unit and all the speakers work fine. I'm guessing its something wrong with the HU itself.

 

[Riff Raff]

This may be very vague,but you have to make sure your factory amp is wired to turn on when your headunit turns on

You have to make sure the orange wire is wired to a switch source,so when the h/u turns on your factory amp behind your glove compartment turns on

Radio 12v orange + radio harness
Radio Ground black - radio harness
Radio Ignition dk. green + radio harness
Radio Illumination brown + radio harness
Factory Amp Turn-on orange + radio harness
Notes: The amplifier is behind the glove box.
Power Antenna N/A
LF Speaker +/- tan - gray +,- radio harness
RF Speaker +/- lt. green - dk. green +,- radio harness
LR Speaker +/- brown - yellow +,- radio harness
RR Speaker +/- dk. blue - lt. blue +,- radio harness

 

[rsmith85]

I checked that, it is listed as "dimmer" on the harness. The speakers were working earlier today when I installed the HU. Later, when I installed the remote, RCA's, and amp the speakers stopped working. I reinstalled the stock unit and the speakers worked. I haven't found a spare aftermarket HU to test the speakers.

It's just weird that it worked prior to installing the amp and sub....

Thanks for the help, I can't figure this out, and seeing your sig I'm guessing you're good with this kinda stuff. If you can think of anything else please let me know.

 

[rsmith85]

I turned the volume up all the way and had the music coming from the speakers but it was really quiet. If I attach the orange wire to a power source it makes the beep noise when your lights are still on. What way could I wire that so it turns the amp on?

Right now I have no idea how to wire it, and I am wondering how I could get sound coming from the speakers prior to installing the amp and sub...

 

[Riff Raff]

You MUST hook up the remote to the pink wire on the flat harness. If you dont, no sound.

Use your blue remote turn-on wire from the deck and connect it to the pink wire on the smaller factory secondary harness.

it's the pink wire that turns on the fact.amp not orange

 

[rsmith85]

awesome, that is what I was wondering. I went to a car audio place today and he was talking about the orange wire. Im glad I checked this first. Thanks again.

 

[rsmith85]

Maybe this will help, its an 02 Yukon and on the rear of the factory deck it has one big harness and another small harness to the left of it, next to the antenna. Everything I have looked at says it does not have an ext. amp, which I was able to locate behind the glove box. I also have a fuse for the amp in the fuse panel under the hood.

I tried using the remote turn on and plugged it into the pink wire, no more sound than before. The audio installer said that if the remote doesn't work, to take the power wires(red on harness) and put a 5 amp fuse inline and attach it to the orange wire, he believed it to power the ext. amp. Let me know if this sounds right

 

[theautoman21]

Are you useig factory amp also? I am hveing similar problems i got the speakers to work but i put in another amp of my own and cant get it to work it turns on but thts it i put it on the bench and it works. So you might be haveing a power problem like me not enough power to run the other amps. I cannot figure out how or why it wont push the sub, it works fine in my other truck