Amp Trouble

[Rex]

hi guys,
ive just spent all day pulling my car apart and putting the alpine amp i bought in, and its not working. I went and bought 120$ worth of new wiring and wired it all up again, still no go. Tried my old pioneer amp, works fine. The alpine amp gets a power light but no sound comes out. Any ideas what it could be, im thinking about just taking it somewhere to get checked out.

Cheers
Clay

[tissue]

a few questions...
is it a new amp?
are the rcas hooked up? properly?
are the speaker wire hooked up? properly?
have you checked the settings on your h/u?

Usually there is a troubleshooting section in the amp manual that tells you what to do too.

[Rex]

its a 2nd hand alpine mrv-t501
ive checked all the settings, i have another pioneer amp which works fine, yet when i plug the alpine in the power light comes on but no sound comes out.

[tissue]

maybe it has blown outputs. take it somewhere to get checked or hassle who you bought it off

[Rex]

if it does have a blown output, would it be expensive to fix?

[tissue]

err, dunno, maybe fire off an email to Alpine Australia to see what they can do?

[Bullion]

Checked its crossovers? maybe its on low pass or something?

[cargle]

do you get any noise at all through the speakerss? any sshhh noise / feedback / static noise.???

make sure the earth is grounded properly.. make sure nothing is shorting out..

do you have a mates car you can plug the new amp into to test it in a different car.

[kamikaze]

Just open her up :).

Check for burnt things :)

jsut don't touch anything just take the cover off.

If something is burnt take it to get repaired.

As a couple caps and resis blew in one of my amps, so i took the cover off and found this out took it to get repaired and it worked fine.
A light was on which to me looked like the power light But it was a green Protection light.