Audio Experts Please Read - One Small Issue Left With JL 10W7 Install/Wiring>>>

SilverStallion · May 23, 2004

Well, we got the system running tonight but there is still one small issue. I wired everything as the MW article suggests, but when I connect up to the line level adapter and run into the rca inputs into my 500/1 JL amp, I can only have either the pos. (red) or the neg. (black) hooked up at any given time. If I run them both, I loose most of the signal and the output is very weak. As soon as I take one side off, the sub hits well.

This has me puzzled as I can run the red and it works, or I can run the black and it works, but I can't run them both at the same time.

Any suggestions as to what the problem is please advise. I know that I am losing half of my input signal by only running one side. Once I get this issue fixed, I am actually finished.

Anyone with input, please advise.
~Darren

KWIK9550 · May 23, 2004

Simple fix. I also want to note, that the red and black do not idicate polarity(i.e. + and -) on RCAs. It's simply to note one is the left channel and one is the right channel.

Now on to your fix. What you have is the polarity of the wiring into your converter switched. Therefore all you have to do is the 2 wires that go to one channel of the converter, let's say red for this instance, and change thier positions.

You will have a + and - input for one channel, and the same for the other.

Now, the way you currently have it wired, you have the positive going to + on one side, and the negative going to - on the other. On the next channel, you have it reversed. The positive is going to the -, and the negative is going to the +. Simply change these 2 wires around, it doesn't matter which channel, and you are good to go.

Audio Experts Please Read - One Small Issue Left With JL 10W7 Install/Wiring>>>

SilverStallion

KWIK9550

Similar threads

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy & Transparency