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Old Apr 11, 2004 | 01:30 AM
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What's RCA Ground Floated mean on the amp?

i have an alpine v12 amp, and the red protection light keeps flashing red, in the manual it says RCA Ground Floated, anyone know what this means and how do i fix it please?

 
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Old Apr 11, 2004 | 02:15 AM
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Re: What's RCA Ground Floated mean on the amp?

ummmm...'floated" means not "grounded"?????or other words..."floating"<-->" not grounding"...hehehe didnt mean to be an smart assies...i had same problem. the amp keep going to protction mode, the shop find an wire from the rear speak was touching some screws...easy fix but hard to find...s.w.

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Old Apr 11, 2004 | 09:52 PM
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Re: What's RCA Ground Floated mean on the amp?

so i guess you're telling me to check to see if my amp has a proper ground point? cause i tried removing all the rca's and speaker wires going into my amp, and i still get that red flashing light, so i t cant be those...

if it is the ground, how can i measure to see if a particular metal part in my car gives off enough resistance or whatever to ensure a proper ground to that amp? my other jl 500/1 amp seems to have no problem, just this alpine one... but the weird thing is, everything works, i get sound going thru my components from the alpine amp even tho its giving me that error on the amp's LED... i just want to know will it be safe to listen to my music with it like this until i pinpoint the problem? i don't want to mess anything up...

the place that installed my 2amps, didnt even use a distrubition block, they just taped up all my power wires into a Y and duct taped it... sigh... maybe cause i didnt purchase an amp kit? sigh.... i had a box with all my amp wires, power wire from my old install and told them to use it too...

 
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