Amp buzzing my front and rear speakers
Apr 30, 2009, 11:58 AM
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Not really, but at least 8 gauge would be ideal. If you have an old extension cord or vacuum power cord, you can cut it up and use that. It's only to verify that your ground between the amp and battery is good or not. If it cures the noise, than your ground is bad somewhere, if it doesn't, then the problem is elsewhere.
Apr 30, 2009, 08:05 PM
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Not really, but at least 8 gauge would be ideal. If you have an old extension cord or vacuum power cord, you can cut it up and use that. It's only to verify that your ground between the amp and battery is good or not. If it cures the noise, than your ground is bad somewhere, if it doesn't, then the problem is elsewhere.
Okay so just run that one back, and have someone hold it there, then put it to the amp ground terminal?
Apr 30, 2009, 08:50 PM
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BTW, my other amp does not work anymore! I was unscrewing the positive terminal of the amp to get my ring terminal off and the screw driver touched the amp casing and it sparked! So now it does not even turn on, no Red light!
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Haha, so I'm sure my ground in the trunk is not good enough. The Amp that I said doesn't work, well it works if I have the RCA's plugged in, but if I use my ground loop isolator then plug to the amp it doesn't work. RCA's are grounding it. My ground in the trunk must suck! where is a great grounding location?!?!?!
May 1, 2009, 10:58 PM
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My amp was not working for some reason, I hooked up the RCA's without ground loop isolator and it does not work, then without ground loop isolator it works. weird!
I don't have my other amp hooked up due to the noise it causes the front and rear speakers to make. The noise is present in anything that is hooked to any amp in my system, it is just not that noticeable in my kenwood sub amp.
How should I ground the frame of the amp?