Does the stereo remote lead on the built in ISO lead, carry a voltage to turn things on like the amp?

 

Reason i ask, im trying to tidy up the boot area, the speaker cables / earth and live wires have been wired in nicely, but the remote feed for my amps is being taken from a laptop incar charger that plugs into the lighter socket, im trying to eliminate the incar charger to go direct to the iso lead if possible. as i have plans for my astray which is going.

normally the remote wire on the stereo tells the amp to turn on, when the stereo does.....

As its a signal wire Ian, it will be milli-volts, no big voltage as it inputs to circuitry on the board of the amp

As its a signal wire Ian, it will be milli-volts, no big voltage as it inputs to circuitry on the board of the amp

 

thats what i meant lol :P

I know lol, Ian is like a drum machine lol, sometimes you got to punch in the info more than once :whistling:

:whistling:

dunno, all i know is that there is a laptop incar charger, set to 15v's going to the rear of the car to the amps with a blue wire spliced into it, the laptop plug is loose, with the blue wire running to the remote input on the back of the amps. does it need to be live? if so i can wire it into the inverter + wire, and the amps turn on when the laptop charger is plugged into the ciggy socket.

you should have a large power cable going directly to the battery giving you a constant live, then the thin remote wire to the back of the stereo telling the live when to turn on and off (when the stereo does) if that makes sense.... :) (then obviosly your earth) so 3 wires pluse speaker cables etc

then as long as all that is as above you can ditch the laptop charger, bit of an odd way for the set up to start with ive never seen it like that before :)

i dont have a normal stereo head unit in place lol

 

This is the set up

 

7" touch screen mounted in the dash, double din style, (just a screen) power from that being drawn from the lighter socket by some dodgy wiring, and being earthed on the chassis, with a cable just to get a image to the screen running through the side of the car (under the carpet) then under the back seat into the boot area.

 

All music is powered by a PC in the boot. there a live feed from the battery, through the cabin under the rear seats to the boot into a major fuse terminal. where the live then gets split via double fuse holder to each amp, the inverter for the PC is taking power from one of the fuse terminals and being earthed on the chassis, both amps are earthed on the chassis, with a audio cable coming from the PC to both amps, one feed going to the sub amp, the other going to the front and rear speaker amp.

 

There is no remote switch on anything from the usual stereo ISO as its just not being used (more to the point some daft sod just cut the frigging connectors off leaving the wires all electrical taped up)

 

Its been a nightmare rewiring everything. but in short i went from how i got it, which was installed like this. (wiring was a little to be desired when i started delving deep lol)

 

 

So first thing to do was untangle the mess of wires, remove redundant wires that for some reason has been channeled in but did nothing and went from no where, to no where. until i ended up with this.

 

 

Then installed the amps under the carpet, hoping to tidy up the boot area, and hopefully also fit my spare wheel in, as it helps keep the carpets shape

 

 

So with one amp installed near the back of the seats, the other was installed where the tool kit goes.

 

 

Anyway, after a bit of rewiring, and hiding cables, and boot carpet installed, it looks some what like this.

 

 

with a nice button installed to turn the inverter on from the cabin, still need to extend the power button from the PC to inside the cabin as well. just not sure where to put it.

 

 

Just need to figure out how to do this remote lead for the amps to get them to switch on, and why my inverter now makes some strange buzzing noise and doesnt power anything even though its wired up how it was to start with? (sounds like a fan warning alarm)

 

overall though a lot tidier

holy Shizzle ..... im totally lost now, im more of a 3 wire kind of guy.... :D lol ... does look very good though, ( i assumed u had a normal stereo but with a screen lol ) ill ask one question to see if i understand the concept of it though ....... does the screen you have not have anything ssimilar to a remote wire on that?

holy Shizzle ..... im totally lost now, im more of a 3 wire kind of guy.... :D lol ... does look very good though, ( i assumed u had a normal stereo but with a screen lol ) ill ask one question to see if i understand the concept of it though ....... does the screen you have not have anything ssimilar to a remote wire on that?

 

in short? no :lol: its a 7" touch screen, very thin, looks like it should be mounted in a caravan, there is only a din socket to connect to the PC via DVI, and a power in for the AC power. thats it.

 

no normal stereo anywhere insight.

:sweatdrop: lol im fully lost and will leave you alone now ....

someone must know how to run a remote lead? surely im not the only one with some dodgy and strange audio set up lol

someone must know how to run a remote lead? surely im not the only one with some dodgy and strange audio set up lol

 

no comment :D

Ok looks like im not going to be able to ditch the laptop charger as the remote, though i dont want to be plugging it into the lighter socket. so will splice it into the lighter socket wire and keep it all hidden, just looks like im going to be adding another switch, going to have 3 switches in the cabin eventually once ive extended the on switch for the PC.

well, ive now got another switch installed into the dash area to switch the amps on. with a flick switch, so now i have inverter switch and amp switch in the cabin, just need to extend the power switch for the PC into another switch in the cabin to turn the PC on.

 

Something strange happened though, had it all wired up, put the dash back together, my lights dimmed, then i see some smoke coming from the dash. so quickly turned everything off and unplugged the battery, dismantle my dash again, still loads of smoke, checked all my wiring couldn't see nothing, checked the charger id put in there, didnt smell, rechecked the wiring for the feed to the charger, and re did it. cant for the life of me find where this smoke was coming from, tested everything again, including wipers, all pod controls, everything with a electrical feed, everything working.

 

Tested the system out with the dash apart, even sniffed the clock. everything is working fine, no signs of over heating, or arching or anything so im baffled as to why i had smoke that smelled like something burning / melting???

 

now im paranoid my dash is going to burn down. may have disturbed a dodgy wire somewhere, this car seems to be full of them (and no car.mad, not my wiring im on about lol)

 

Ive just spend from 12pm till 10mins ago trying to sort out all the wiring that was bodged together in this car. seems i must of missed something.

well, ive now got another switch installed into the dash area to switch the amps on. with a flick switch, so now i have inverter switch and amp switch in the cabin, just need to extend the power switch for the PC into another switch in the cabin to turn the PC on.

 

Something strange happened though, had it all wired up, put the dash back together, my lights dimmed, then i see some smoke coming from the dash. so quickly turned everything off and unplugged the battery, dismantle my dash again, still loads of smoke, checked all my wiring couldn't see nothing, checked the charger id put in there, didnt smell, rechecked the wiring for the feed to the charger, and re did it. cant for the life of me find where this smoke was coming from, tested everything again, including wipers, all pod controls, everything with a electrical feed, everything working.

 

Tested the system out with the dash apart, even sniffed the clock. everything is working fine, no signs of over heating, or arching or anything so im baffled as to why i had smoke that smelled like something burning / melting???

 

now im paranoid my dash is going to burn down. may have disturbed a dodgy wire somewhere, this car seems to be full of them (and no car.mad, not my wiring im on about lol)

 

Ive just spend from 12pm till 10mins ago trying to sort out all the wiring that was bodged together in this car. seems i must of missed something.

 

Wierd one, did you leave your fag in the dash cluster when you had the clocks :whistling:

 

Get the battery disconnected for overnight mate, just in case.

Wierd one, did you leave your fag in the dash cluster when you had the clocks :whistling:

 

Get the battery disconnected for overnight mate, just in case.

 

nope but it seriously had me worried, what i dont get though, is everything still works and now it doesnt smoke?

 

very very strange. looks like im going to have to get all me panels off from the dash tomorrow and have a proper look or its going to play on my mind ever time i switch the ignition on.

 

ooh it only did it with the ignition set to on, something was definitely melting or over heating though, due to the smoke. just couldn't see anything, and there was no smoke/melted stuff from what id installed, so must be something I've knocked else where along the lines, with how the electrics in this car have been butchered in the past, think id be better ripping the dash out, getting a load of stock cables from someones breaker for the dash area, and just rewiring the whole frigging thing.

Well as you say there is no mistaking the smell of an electrical burn. I'd agree with you and say get the dash off and have a thorough search around with your nose.

 

My JDM had some pretty shocking cowboy wiring done to it, luckly my UK was completely stock and hadn't had a single wire messed with inside. The EFI loom was a different matter tho'.

Well as you say there is no mistaking the smell of an electrical burn. I'd agree with you and say get the dash off and have a thorough search around with your nose.

 

My JDM had some pretty shocking cowboy wiring done to it, luckly my UK was completely stock and hadn't had a single wire messed with inside. The EFI loom was a different matter tho'.

 

well i had a brilliant idea to try and sort the wiring out this morning, then half way through it turned into one of them jobs where "you wonder why you started" :lol:

 

Just extending the power switch for the PC at the moment so i can switch everything on from inside the cabin.

 

suppose it would be a good idea tomorrow, to ring zed world and get these parts for engine / gearbox and get the fooking thing fitted lol.

 

Steams any chance you can pop over and see if you can drill these bloody bolts out of these turbo housing?

:lol:

 

I'm a bit busy this week mate, but I should be able too. I'll give you a shout when I know more mate.

Much better!

I hated the mess the boot was in, i even thought about getting rid of it all!

well, looks like im going to have to rip the dash out, cant see any thing obvious that caused the smoking issue last night and im now paranoid enough to take the dash off and have a proper look