stereo question

[Batman]

Okay heres the deal, I put in a new Sony deck that is 52x4 =208 watts. Boat has four stock ? speakers that are running off the Sony head unit. I added two Kicker tower speakers. I ran the tower speakers off a Kicker 350.4 amp with a sub also off the amp. When I turn up the stereo about three quarters of the way it starts to cut out or turn off. I have heavy duty (8 gauge) wire run straight to battery from amp. Now when I unplug two of the stock boat speakers, all is fine. So what happened? Should stock speakers be reconfigured? Thanks

[Mikeski]

RE: stereo question

Did you run both black and red from the battery to the amp?

[Batman]

RE: stereo question

Yes, with 8 gauge recommended wire, sooooo???

[Sinkoumn]

RE: stereo question

Man, I hope you're not being sarcastic with mikeski on the help - dude could make a radio out of a conch-shell.

But you need to add more info to get some real help on your stereo. Are you running the four interior speaker off of the headunit lines, then the tower speakers off of the RCA plugs or what?

If you get a chance, or already haven't tried the setup, wire the interior speakers off the front outputs on the amp, then the tower off the rear.

But if that doesn't help, please don't razz me like you did mikeski for trying to help.

[Batman]

RE: stereo question

Sorry I am not razzing anybody. I was restating what I put in original post about running wire from battery to amp, both positive and negative. I was just asking soooo what's next? Are you saying that I should take interior speakers and wire them to amp also? Seems like an awful lot off one amp! So do I put both postive leads and both negative leads on one channel or amp one? I honestly appreciate any help I can get! If not guess I will be at stereo store come next week. Thanks!

[bbrech1]

RE: stereo question

I don't that that adding all of the interior speakers to the amp will help since you already have the tower speakers and the sub running on the amp. Try disconnecting the sub and leave the tower spearkers connected to the amp and see if it cuts out. If it does try connecting a pair of you interior speakers to the amp in place of the tower speakers and see if it continues to happen, if it still happens it may be something wrong with the tower speakers or the wiring (Process of elimination)
Brad

[Mikeski]

RE: stereo question

I didn't see any sarcasm, simple Q, simple A, all is good... Sinko, thanks for the props, my skin is pretty thick, even if it was sarcastic.

Running boat speakers off the deck is always a compromise. On the other hand your amp is tapped out too. You have not said that you are unhappy with the sound with the deck powered speakers when they work.

First things first, are you testing this with the boat on the trailer off a semi-dead battery? The deck will definately start to cut out if it running at low voltage. Hook up the charger and make sure you have plenty of voltage, high power decks are quite succeptible to low voltage.

Step 1.
When you unplugged two speakers and everything was fine... Try connecting the other two speakers and see if the problem re-appears. If yes, likely there is a short in a speaker wire or short in a speaker's voice coil.

Assuming it works with either pair of boat speakers disconnected,

Let's start with the deck. Is it warm, very warm or hot? Eject the CD, if it's hot to the touch the issue is with your deck. Unplug the amp RCA's and the amp turn on wire and focus on the deck. See if it still exhibits the problem.

send me a PM if you still need help resolving your issues (please e-mail directly so I can quote inline, the PN reply does not do this easily).

mikeskiw@gmail.com

[Batman]

RE: stereo question

Just an update! One of the speakers clips was loose, so we redid all the clips. Re did the power circuit and now it sounds great. Thanks for the input.