Robert

read this,

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I just installed the digital knukonceptz distribution block and connected a line for the ground so the digital display can work. My question is how long should the display stay on? Its been about 15min and its still on.

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As for the relay this is something I need to get hands on experience with, I was looking around in autozone but not sure which one to get.

And it is still on. I understand it might not do any harm but I just want to make sure. And sorry for the funky wood work its just temporary!

Sorry Iwent for some beer, no it does not have a remote lead just one of the two mounting holes has a piece of metal within the molding and thats for the ground. I will post pics.

I assume that is gonna drain battery over time....

How much for that charger HF1215?

I tied remote line around positive on DMM then I stuck DMM neg probe into amp ground that is loose at the moment and with car idling I get 13.55 on DMM . I think that its going to be what Audibel said earlier or at least I am hoping its just the headunit messed up

how can you test if a bad remote line out from head unit is causing amp not to on?

dang this one must really get left in the dirt lol

sorry to edit now the amp doesn't turn on kinda hard to explain look at this thread to see where I started at. After that today I checked for cuts in my power line as well as re did my ground and i ran a temp remote line from amp over seat to the headunit remote while headunit out of dash to make sure everything is good and now this

look at where this all started I redid the ground and checked my whole power line for cuts and it was fine

kenwood

I should have seen it that simple Its just been dealing with finding out what happened with amp (its in another thread) almost four days later this is what I might be boiling down to. I have power flowing to the back of car and thats basically how I checked for current using positive on DMM to power cable and negative to the ground cable without amp connected I'm seeing 14.1 at idle then when I connect cables to amp with radio off I get the 14.1 then when I turn on radio voltage goes to zero. weird huh lol.

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I rechecked everything I have done and now I have everything off car. Last thing I can add is that the RCA jacks on the back of radio were hot. My radio only has two rca outputs (front, rear) but I can change the rear to sub output which is the way I had it so to draw a picture the connections were like this, front rca to main input on EQ subwoofer out to subwoofer in on P1000 front out on eq to front in on P400 nothing wrong on the P1000 side P400 makes car idle erratically when it first turns on even by itself and no speakers wired into it. could have bad head unit rca's messed up the P400?

I posted this on another site but maybe I can get advice here, I have a 4ch rockford P400-4 set to 2ch and using two alpine 4ohm 6.5's. Everything had been working fine but lately say I am driving to work for about five minutes then I turn on radio you can feel the car kind of shudder a bit then after awhile of the radio playing the amp goes into thermal protect. The gains are under a quarter turn from zero and made sure the ground is good. Any ideas?

they are not parallel

amp is set to 2ch with just two speakers but this happens with nothing but remote power and ground connections to amp. Its like this amp puts a strain on car when it powers up

I had a P1000 - 1bd in the car also rockford 1/0 gauge from a XS Power S3400 under the hood to the trunk distro block and about a foot of 4 gauge power and ground to each and also 90 amp alt with big 3 done. I stripped everything down to just head unit and P400. voltage at battery is at 14.1 to 13.8 and the same at the amp. if I hook up the P1000 - 1bd by itself everything is fine.

today i changed rca cables left them disconnected tried different ground left speakers off the amp ran a new remote line and even ran everything directly to head unit and still amp overheats even with gains all the way down.

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