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Ok i've heard of this problem before: everytime my amp gets power and turns on (when i turn my key to acc or further) my subwoofer makes a small popping sound. I saw that installing an inline remote switch on the remote wire would do the trick. Will this work and can anyone give me a link to a nice and simple one please? :)

And also is this a threat to the integrity to my subwoofer because if it is i have to make sure i do this ASAP.?

Thanks

Ok i've heard of this problem before: everytime my amp gets power and turns on (when i turn my key to acc or further) my subwoofer makes a small popping sound. I saw that installing an inline remote switch on the remote wire would do the trick. Will this work and can anyone give me a link to a nice and simple one please? :)

And also is this a threat to the integrity to my subwoofer because if it is i have to make sure i do this ASAP.?

Thanks

From my experience its when your head units outputs are starting to go bad but there are other possible problems im sure i haven't herd of. Get yourself a remote turn on delay should solve the problem.

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Ok i've heard of this problem before: everytime my amp gets power and turns on (when i turn my key to acc or further) my subwoofer makes a small popping sound. I saw that installing an inline remote switch on the remote wire would do the trick. Will this work and can anyone give me a link to a nice and simple one please? :)

And also is this a threat to the integrity to my subwoofer because if it is i have to make sure i do this ASAP.?

Thanks

From my experience its when your head units outputs are starting to go bad but there are other possible problems im sure i haven't herd of. Get yourself a remote turn on delay should solve the problem.

outputs as in settings?

i was thinking of something like this

http://www.oznium.com/led-tipped-toggle

Edited by mbarber25

You're going to forget that sometime and leave it on, thus draining your battery overnight. The best solution is to solve the problem.

Sometimes this pop can be fixed by regrounding the head unit and/or amplifier.

What head unit do you have? If it's a Pioneer, you probably blew the fuse inside of it, which leads to this problem. There are fixes to that.

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You're going to forget that sometime and leave it on, thus draining your battery overnight. The best solution is to solve the problem.

Sometimes this pop can be fixed by regrounding the head unit and/or amplifier.

What head unit do you have? If it's a Pioneer, you probably blew the fuse inside of it, which leads to this problem. There are fixes to that.

yea that could happen.

but HU is Apline CDA-9886

the amp ground is pretty good but now that i think of it.. it could probably be sanded.. hmmm

i didn't put in the deck so i don't know how good the ground is but its probably the same on used for the factory deck so it's probably a good ground

how do u feel?

thanks

You're going to forget that sometime and leave it on, thus draining your battery overnight. The best solution is to solve the problem.

Sometimes this pop can be fixed by regrounding the head unit and/or amplifier.

What head unit do you have? If it's a Pioneer, you probably blew the fuse inside of it, which leads to this problem. There are fixes to that.

smart man id try his fixes first :fing34:

Actually factory grounds aren't always that good.

You didn't sand the paint under your amplifier's ground? Do that!

did any of those suggestions help, if so what was causing the subwoofer to pop?

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did any of those suggestions help, if so what was causing the subwoofer to pop?

never got around to sanding it because i thought it stopped.. but then i heard it again last night.. so i'm definately gunna try it out asap

usually any whining or pops coming from speakers is a ground problem (usually it seems like its gone or just comes and goes). Sanding paint from metals chassis and even covering the ground wires with plastic tubing will help also (especially for a situation I had for over three years considering saturn makes horrible grounds for their vehicles.

another thing to think about is what system did you have in there before (amp, head unit, wires, rcas and subs). If same amp but different subs and u moved the amp around or did something different when hooking it up (by accident), then go back a retrace your steps.

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umm everything is the same besides the sub. and another thing different is that i tapped into the remote wire and attached the remote wire for my voltmeter to it.. other than that.. same same

Look at re-grounding your head unit ground. Factory radio grounds have other items grounded to the same point and can create ground loops.

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Look at re-grounding your head unit ground. Factory radio grounds have other items grounded to the same point and can create ground loops.

yea that's the second step if sanding my amp ground doesn't work.. i really hope i don;t have to do that, taking my deck out is annoying

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