need help installing a sub and car deck
#1
need help installing a sub and car deck
i got a sub with an amp the sub is a alpine SWS-1240 and the amp is a Alpine mrv-100m. I need to buy a car deck and i was wondering if i need to find a match with the amp that i have. One of my friends told me i need to find the right deck with the right # of watts and i didnt think so so do i? and i also wanted to know what kind of wire do i need. do i need to rewire my whole car so someone sayed or not because it is a 1993 does that mean i need to rewire my whole car?
Thank you
Thank you
#2
it doesn't matter what cd deck you get..you just have to make sure it has the rca connections and a remote wire. wattage isnt a great concern because most decks come at around 50x4 watts. As for wiring your car, all you will have to do is get a wiring harness that is meant for your car so your deck can hook up to the wires your car came with, a mounting bracket so it fits, and a wiring kit to get the power from your battery to your amplifier. The kit will come with rca cables, remote wire, copper connectors, speaker wire, power wire and ground wire.
#3
for the wiring harness do i need to sotter them together or do i just connect them? as for the subwoofer i got it from my cousin and i dont have any wires for it where cant i get all the wires for it? and do you have a website for diagrams to hook up the sub?
thanks
thanks
#6
yes soldering is the best method however ive always just taped them and i havnt had any problems. you can use any wires for the sub...if its a one channel amp, put a wire from the positive of the amp to the positive of the sub, and another from the negative of the amp to the negative of the sub..send me a pm if you have any problems.
#7
http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/...diagram_lg.gif
theres a diagram for ya. just ignore the capacitor and the four channel amp. the one channel amp with the sub is what you need to look at
theres a diagram for ya. just ignore the capacitor and the four channel amp. the one channel amp with the sub is what you need to look at
#8
I drew this up quickly.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...ampinstall.jpg
Because you are running a single voice coil sub woofer that is 4ohms and your amp is 4 ohms, you can hook up the terminals directly to the amplifier.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...ampinstall.jpg
Because you are running a single voice coil sub woofer that is 4ohms and your amp is 4 ohms, you can hook up the terminals directly to the amplifier.