After quite a few hours of tearing apart trim, laying wires, reassembling trim, rigging awkward solders and connections, and a full day of building a custom carpeted box for my audio system: it LIVES!
Well, almost!
The front driver side speaker isn't getting any power. Took it to the audio store; they refused to do any diagnostics because they wouldn't be able to warranty it, but they did confirm that the speaker itself is fine.
Now, I've had to do a lot of wiring, and the problem could be in many places I suppose. I'm not sure where to start!
It's almost all factory wiring. I intervened where the factory amp was, and obviously I didn't screw up completely if I've got at least 3/5 other speakers working. I also doubt that I did something as straightforward as clip the drives.
I was pretty careful to match up (+) and (-) for each of 5 speakers. If I mixed polarity, would that do it? If there was a short somewhere between two speaker wires, at the amp, could that do it?
Finally, maybe there's something silly I'm overlooking at the amp itself, and nothing at all with wiring.
Here's the amp user manual, check out page 4:
http://www.kenwoodusa.com/UserFiles/...s/KACX650D.pdf
Can you think of any selection there, like mono versus stereo, or input selector, or anything else, that would cause there to be no sound from the left front speaker?
I don't actually know if there's sound from the left rear speaker btw; haven't climbed back and put my ear next to each speaker to see that sound is coming from both. (so don't overlook a silly selection that would give only sound to the right hand side).
I did play with balance, shift it "+15" to the left, and still no sound from that speaker. That's not it.
Well, almost!
The front driver side speaker isn't getting any power. Took it to the audio store; they refused to do any diagnostics because they wouldn't be able to warranty it, but they did confirm that the speaker itself is fine.
Now, I've had to do a lot of wiring, and the problem could be in many places I suppose. I'm not sure where to start!
It's almost all factory wiring. I intervened where the factory amp was, and obviously I didn't screw up completely if I've got at least 3/5 other speakers working. I also doubt that I did something as straightforward as clip the drives.
I was pretty careful to match up (+) and (-) for each of 5 speakers. If I mixed polarity, would that do it? If there was a short somewhere between two speaker wires, at the amp, could that do it?
Finally, maybe there's something silly I'm overlooking at the amp itself, and nothing at all with wiring.
Here's the amp user manual, check out page 4:
http://www.kenwoodusa.com/UserFiles/...s/KACX650D.pdf
Can you think of any selection there, like mono versus stereo, or input selector, or anything else, that would cause there to be no sound from the left front speaker?
I don't actually know if there's sound from the left rear speaker btw; haven't climbed back and put my ear next to each speaker to see that sound is coming from both. (so don't overlook a silly selection that would give only sound to the right hand side).
I did play with balance, shift it "+15" to the left, and still no sound from that speaker. That's not it.
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