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Old Jun 4, 2003 | 02:42 PM
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Is making weird popping sounds. Ever since I tried out my friends amp yesterday that was acting up in his car, now whenever I switch from CD to radio my subs thump and when i switch the station my subs make a thump sound, sound like turn on thump that some amps do, but I never had this problem untill today. Any ideas?
Old Jun 5, 2003 | 05:18 AM
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Originally posted by NTOXKTD:
It's a ground problem.
ground on the amp? or ground on the deck?
Old Jun 5, 2003 | 06:54 AM
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i would say you blew your rca ground trace in your deck
its done by touching your power wire to your rca
try grounding the rca sheild to the radio chassis ground at the deck and see if it goes away
Old Jun 5, 2003 | 04:45 PM
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Originally posted by pinhead:
i would say you blew your rca ground trace in your deck
its done by touching your power wire to your rca
try grounding the rca sheild to the radio chassis ground at the deck and see if it goes away
thanks pinhead. I never touched the + to the rca, but maybe my friends amp messed up the deck this way somehow.

which wire is the shield wire?
Old Jun 6, 2003 | 07:03 PM
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the sheild is the outside metal part of your rca end
Old Jun 10, 2003 | 06:09 PM
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thanks to everyone

i fixed the prob, ran a small piece of wire from rca sheild to ground and all thumps went away.
Old Jun 10, 2003 | 07:35 PM
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good job [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]



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