I hooked up everything to my system last night, and...it only works at low volumes. I have a JL Audio 250/1v2 amp and 2 10" JL Audio W0v2's. When it is at low volumes it sounds great, but as soon as I turn it up the subs cut off. Why would it be doing this?
I thought the amp maybe going into thermal mode, but that is not the case either, the amp is working just fine. The only thing I could think of is I hooked up the speaker wire from the amp to the woofers wrong...
I took the + and - negative from one terminal on the amp and ran it to the + and - on one of the speaker terminals, then used the other + and - on the amp and ran it to the other speaker. Seemed right to me, but when I looked on JL's website it looks like they just use on of the + and - terminals on the amp and then split those wires to both speakers. I hope all of that made since...let me know if you need more information or not.
I dont know whats going on, any help is appreciated.

Thanks

 

Anyone...

Anybody with a slash series jl audio amp hooked to two or more woofers could you show me a pic or tell me how you ran your speaker wires, so i can see if I ran my correctly???

 

voltage dropping below 10 volts

 

I have a new battery and my amp and sub shouldn't be drawing that much power from the battery, should it?

 

it can. check ur grounds.the only thing thay makes jl amps cut out is a voltage drop. prolly should do big 3 upgrade to grounds

 

as far as speaker wiring its a mono amp it is all thge same. really i just go from one speaker to next tie together, then one wire up to amp.

 

what is the "big 3 upgrade", I have a 4AWG for my ground but I probably dont have it grounded in the best spot, where do you have yours grounded?

 

do a search on forum. there is alot of info on the big 3... battery- to chassis, cab to frame ground. engine to frame ground.
under neath the truck there is a gusset or hallow rail that covers the bottom of the seatbelt bolts. in that on the far passenger side is an egg shaped hole, what i did was drilled a 1/4 in spotter hole,up through floor , then rouned out the oval hole with a unibit big enough to get a socket in, i then used jl audio master ground lug, it is basically a nickle plated bolt, that has a nut on top and bottom. doing it this way it can be bolted tightly, and also accept more than one ground. this is overkill, but it is done right, i dont have to worry bout ground being a prollem. cab floor. sand all paint to bare metal.

 

alright well i guess i will give the big 3 a shot. Thanks alot

 

check voltage at amp when bass hits

 

alright i will do that tomorrow

 

Well it took me a while to figure it out but FINALLY i fixed the problem...I had the remote wire going to the front left speaker and not the actual power...im an idiot, but at least I got my bass wahoo

 

Just FYI.... Unless you replace your alternator the Big 3 upgrade will not give you any improvement.

 

ok.

 

I really doubt with 250 watts he needs to do the big 3 anyway.