Yea its extremely strange. Im not the best, but I have a pretty good grasp of electrical wiring and this one is driving me crazy.
--The amp has been checked in a bare bones configuration with NO RCA's or speaker wires hooked up. Nothing...still protection 5V
-- The grounding block is a 24K gold stinger block mounted to the trunk chasis. The paint was sanded off and wire brushed before contact made over 5 months ago. Still gives me good ground loop.
-- THe amp automatically goes into protection mode...it starts off that way.
-- Until about 2 weeks ago, this whole audio system worked flawlessly for the past 2-3 months. Just recently, the only way the amp works is when I bring a seperate battery to the trunk compartment and wire both positive and negative terminals to the +12V and GND side of amp and still use the original remote wire from the car. Amp works fine in this configuration.
--Also,,,,I ran a standalone 15 foot wire from the negative termianl of the battery straight back to the amps GND slot and it still didnt work. I disconnected teh cars negative terminal to make sure it took the whole car's ground system out the equation.
- Battery seems to be good, 12.4 not running....14.1 runnig from alternator.
I....Am......Stumped...
Tangeray
EDIT: Im using 2 week old MOnster Cable Rca to Headphone jack car audio wires (2 sets, front and rear)
EDIT2: Here is a schematic of how the whole thing is wired........
