RRC Sub & Amp......how to wire it up?

[Reggieroo]

Doe's anyone no how to connect the standard Sub & Amp to an aftermarket stereo?

I bought mine with a new head unit fitted but the Sub don't work, I've found the wire to power it but the Sub doesn't sound right as I'm not sure were to connect the other wires.

Its looks to me that there are three wires to connect.

Paul

[enak]

The standard sub is pretty poor and the amp not very powerful.

Edit: Incorrect information, see below.
The three wires are power, ground and remote (ignition).

[Reggieroo]

Thanks,

I've had another look & connected the remote wire to the head unit but to get the sub to fire up I have to touch the other two wires to the speaker wires which doesn't seem right.

[enak]

Sorry,  I should have said, The sub needs to be connected to an amp.  The factory one is sited on the top.

The black connector (3 wires) is the connection to the sub.  There is:
Remote (purple/ yellow)
Speaker
Speaker

The white connector has 5 wires.  I forget the colour codes, but there is
speaker
speaker
power
ground
ignition.

The amp looks like this:


Excuse the bare wires I was in the process of fixing the wiring "done" by a previous owner.

[Reggieroo]

Hi ,

I already have that amp on top of the sub & the black connector & white connector are plugged in as from the factory.

What I don't know is how to connect them up at the head unit end in the dash, I have the purple/yellow wire, red/yellow & a black wire coming out of the dash. I think these three wires are from the black plug.

If I connect the purple/yellow wire to the blue remote wire coming off the head unit it turns on the amp, I just don't know where to connect the other two.



I touched them onto the speaker wires & it seemed to power up the sub but it sounded wrong.

I'm just wondering have I got it all completely wrong?

[Range Rover Blues]

The sub contains 2 speakers in anti-phase so the amp is effectively a stereo amp. but if you drive both halves the speakers cancell out.  I had a devil of a jub trying to get mine to run from an aftermarket stereo.

In the end I gave up and fitted a bridgeable amp, "60 from Maplin for a 100 watt/channel 4 channle+bridgeable, nice :D  and I run the sub from that as well as the rear speakers.  Oh, you need a low-pass filter too.

[jjsaul]

if anyones looking for one now they know how to wire it up...

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?p=409349#409349

[Reggieroo]

The sub contains 2 speakers in anti-phase so the amp is effectively a stereo amp. but if you drive both halves the speakers cancell out.  I had a devil of a jub trying to get mine to run from an aftermarket stereo.

In the end I gave up and fitted a bridgeable amp, "60 from Maplin for a 100 watt/channel 4 channle+bridgeable, nice :D  and I run the sub from that as well as the rear speakers.  Oh, you need a low-pass filter too.

I took my sub box apart when I first started work on this little project just to see if there was a sub & only found one in there.

I still haven't got it working!

I can see why you gave up, I can't as I'm skint otherwise I would rip the whole lot out & start from scratch with a whole new system.

[Range Rover Blues]

Are there 4 wires going to the speaker or just 2, the one in the box that is?

I think some of them may have been twin-coiled driver units but my memory is vague on this one.

[enak]

There were just two on mine.

[Reggieroo]

Well I've got four wires coming out of the box so I think it must be the twin coiled unit you are talking about.

I've got it working now  :D

I connected the purple & yellow wire the the remote wire on the back of the head unit & connected either of the other two wires to a speaker wire going into the head unit.

You have to mess around with that last wire to see what sounds best, I found the best way is to connect it to the one with the least bass.