Brand Spankin Pioneer Deck Stopped

[Ryanrb25]

ok here's the low down,

just bought a 97 33, bought a brand new pioneer deck, wired it in with those loom thingies you get from autobahn, (sounds dodgy i know) but i had a home stereo speaker behind my seat to listen to because the 33 speakers were SHIT!

1 month passes.

no sound other than a small crack out of the speaker when i turn it on. then NOTHING at any volume.

does the 33 have a standard AMP thing in the boot?

is this hooked up through the standard stereo wiring from the console?

is the amp gone is the deck?

is the amp in the 33 (if there is one) is that f**ked?

cheers.

im pissed off coz the deck cost be around 4 hung.

[Chris Rogers]

check for shorts first. pull the unit and disconect the speaker wires. connect them one at a time with the unit powered when it stops playing you have isolated teh fault.

now the bad part:

if you have killed the output stage in it you have just done $150 worth of damage.

[sky_hi]

check for shorts first. pull the unit and disconect the speaker wires. connect them one at a time with the unit powered when it stops playing you have isolated teh fault.

now the bad part:

if you have killed the output stage in it you have just done $150 worth of damage.

If you had a home stereo speaker connected it may be the incorrect impedance which causes amps to do very strange things or u have damaged the decks amp. u may be able to get under warranty if you play dumb. like the other guy said check for shorts on ur audio line

[Ryanrb25]

yea cheers for your info. i will probably have to wear it and take the deck in to get fixed.

Cheers.

Ryan

[fr0st]

I dout you killed it, the output stage is usually (if not always) short circuit protected. The chips they use as amplifiers have short circuit, over current and over temperature protection. The main thing is either 2 or all 4 channels are amplified on the same chip. If one shorts the rest go down as well.

Home theater speakers are usually 8 or 4 ohms, car speakers are almost all 4 ohm. Using an 8 ohms speaker definitely won't kill it.

I'd be rechecking the loom, if you disconnect every line going to a speaker and then get a known working speaker and connect it up to one channel at a time you can rule out an amplifier fault if it works.

I'd say one of your home speakers has blown a voice coil and is shorting.

[Ryanrb25]

ahh thanks.

if it has shorted in the deck how can i 'un short it'?

[fr0st]

I dout it would be shorted at the back of the deck, unless your wiring is dodgy. Shorting is when the two wires that goto your speaker are well... shorted lol

Things that would do are blown voice coils (measures almost 0 ohms), worn wires shorting to the chassis and the two wires touching either behind the deck or at the speaker. If you can't find anything wrong, check that the speaker still works buy putting on it another stereo, if that channels is still the problem run new wires

[Chris Rogers]

ahh thanks.

if it has shorted in the deck how can i 'un short it'?

you don't.