blew my head unit!!!

[macnwigs]

Hey guys,<P>anyone know why I would blow my head unit, doing this?<P>I got a small 100 watt amp (for door speakers) and it's kinda dummy proof...you put the cables in the marked pulgs then put the whole plug in the amp.<P>I out everuthing together and it was working.....then I turned up the volume a little and a puff of smoke comes outta my deck and now no sound!!!<P>The power is still on, but absolutely no sound.<P>Any ideas???

[Paragon]

sounds like your remote wire to the amp got chaffed and grounded itself out

[macnwigs]

is that fixable?

[Sonicxtacy02]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by macnwigs:<BR><STRONG>is that fixable?</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>cracking open a head unit to fix it is a very dangerous and sometimes pointless encounter, i would reccomend just replacing it. Do you have a warranty?

[macnwigs]

nope, I got it off my brother-in-law a couple years ago...<P>I saw a nice MP3 cd deck on the Future shop Website, so I guess I'll just replace it.

[gmoney23]

warranty would help..but..could have been your ground wire...remote wire..or maybe blew the fuse from you cd player

[macnwigs]

I frigged it good!<P>Here's a pic of my new unit<P>

[tk1138]

If you haven't thrown your old head away yet, I might be able to fix it, or at least tell you what died in it. PM me if your interested.

[BumpNGlow]

how much? I have a JVC HU that stopped playing CDs on me and I liked it a lot. Its hard to sell a broken CD player. All the other features work.

[mx3man83]

This happened to me when i was installing one of my amps and my deck. The thing is, i had some fuses blown and did not know it, so when i was wiring in the deck and amp, It was doing some funny things, like playing when it shouldnt and so on and so forth....I had taken the fuse out of the remote line cuz i blew it and didnt have another one on me, I turned it on, and had the wires hooked up wrong, and it fried my deck. Good thing i had purchased a warranty!! Just a warning to you all, when you try to wire in your deck and something does not seeem right, check your fuses!!

[Paragon]

or you could just save yourself time and money and disconnect the battery before you do any install

[tk1138]

Bump 'n Glow: If you pay shipping, 20$ (USD) or maybe you have something else lying around like speakers, or a small amp... + Parts.<P>Everyone: Yes, disconnect your battery BEFORE you work on your system, double check EVERYTHING before you reconnect the battery. It's faster to do it right the first time....<p>[ October 15, 2002: Message edited by: tk1138 ]

[Sonicxtacy02]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Paragon:<BR><STRONG>or you could just save yourself time and money and disconnect the battery before you do any install</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><BR>Yea, just like it tells you to in every instruction book ever created<BR>

[BumpNGlow]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tk1138:<BR><STRONG>Bump 'n Glow: If you pay shipping, 20$ (USD) or maybe you have something else lying around like speakers, or a small amp... + Parts.<BR></STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>If I pay shipping, what? And I do have a few other thigns sitting around. 2 shallow boxes for 10s(went in my last car), 1 Soundstream Angina(rated at 200, does more like 300+ --very small mono amp)

[mx3man83]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sonicxtacy02:<BR><STRONG><P><BR>Yea, just like it tells you to in every instruction book ever created<BR> </STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes i know, i did do that when i initially installed my deck but when it wasnt working correctly i had to hook it back up to see what was going on. ie. test power delivery and such