Decide to wire my deck and speakers and run new wires for them all instead of using the beat up OEM Honda ones. All the lines were run and connected using male and female style connectors

Get it all done, start it up and you can hear that there working, but are always sounding alright but with a shitty weird internal rattle to them, and at 1/2 volume they start to skip out

One thing my dad brought up

Do door speakers have + / - ??? Cause I just hooked up to whatever one on the speaker that I grabbed, does that make a difference that they may be switched around if there is even a way to switch them

Thinking of just telling the shop Im taking to to have my alarm installed to trouble shoot it. How much would you guys charge to trouble shoot a system with all the wires run and most connected but obviously some problems for the **** in my sig?

THanks

 

Yes! All speakers have a positive and a negative. If you get these confused they will work, but sound shitty. The problem you are most likely experiencing is that you have one side correct and the other wrong, causing the head-unit to be "bridged" and therefore shutting it down internally so you don't blow the head unit. Follow the wires on all speakers and make sure they are right, don't just swap them onto the other terminals.

 

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What on is postive, the big connector on the speaker or the small one

 

Yes speakers have a pos. and a neg., the larger term. is normaly the pos. IT makes no diffarence which way you do it as long as you do them all the same. The output out of an amp is "AC" , so if one speaker is wired pos. output to pos.speaker term.[large one] and neg.output to neg.speaker term.[smaller one] all the speakers have to be done that way, and visa/versa, not doing so will put speakers out of phase. [ no bass and low output] you can test for this by fadeing to front speakers and then [with music on] balance all the way left and all the way right, if bass is better when only your left or right speaker is on then it is when both are on, you are out of phase , rewire one of the speakers [does not matter which one] now repeat on rear speakers. After you have the left and right in phase you can phase the front and rears to each other, fade all the way to front and all the way to rear, if out of phase there will be a slight drop in bass when both front and rears are on [subtle] if so, rewire both left and right front or rear speakers. hope this helps. 94

 

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if he had one side wired up correctly and the other wires up backwards the only problem would be in correct phasing. there would be no excess load on the amp, you just wouldnt have any tight center image. if you PM me with your MSN i can send you some phasing test tracks.

 

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if he had one side wired up correctly and the other wires up backwards the only problem would be in correct phasing. there would be no excess load on the amp, you just wouldnt have any tight center image. if you PM me with your MSN i can send you some phasing test tracks. </TD></TR></TABLE>

- Your amp will not "bridge"...take EBP up on his offer and grab the IASCA track - it'll help very quickly - you might as well pop your deck out - or your doors and get ready to play with the wiring again.

-Rage

 

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- Your amp will not "bridge"...take EBP up on his offer and grab the IASCA track - it'll help very quickly - you might as well pop your deck out - or your doors and get ready to play with the wiring again.

-Rage</TD></TR></TABLE>

its actually not the iasca cd althought i wouldnt mind having that. I got the tracks from B&W. When i registered my speakers they send me out a cd with 6 phasing tracks for high, mid, low both in phase and out and a few other tracks to show the dynamics and the full range the speaker's capable of.