Insanejughead
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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about putting an amp in my car for the rear two speakers to have more "oomph" without putting my headunit through too much strain and to clear up my overall sound.
I was given an amp a year ago or so and I know almost nothing about it, but from what I've read on various sites (Crutchfield and several others), installing an amp isn't hard and I understand mostly all of it.
But... My amp, a Pioneer GM-4200, has a plug with three wires coming out of it. I have no clue what two of them are for. Finding manuals for it is easy, but all the places I've found want me to pay for them.
I'm going to guess that the blue wire is the wire that everyone talks about hooking up to the blue wire from the headunit, but what I don't understand (and want to understand so that I don't mess anything up) is what the hell are the red and yellow wires for???
Thanks in advance.
Also, how do you test an amp to make sure it'll work? I don't want to install it and then find out it's toast.
I was given an amp a year ago or so and I know almost nothing about it, but from what I've read on various sites (Crutchfield and several others), installing an amp isn't hard and I understand mostly all of it.
But... My amp, a Pioneer GM-4200, has a plug with three wires coming out of it. I have no clue what two of them are for. Finding manuals for it is easy, but all the places I've found want me to pay for them.
I'm going to guess that the blue wire is the wire that everyone talks about hooking up to the blue wire from the headunit, but what I don't understand (and want to understand so that I don't mess anything up) is what the hell are the red and yellow wires for???
Thanks in advance.
Also, how do you test an amp to make sure it'll work? I don't want to install it and then find out it's toast.