i bought a bazooka BAZ EL8A bass tube and i can't get it to work. i'm probably doing something wrong so can SOMEONE help??? ok.. it is self powered and is supposed to turn on automatically when the music is turned on.. so i bought some wire and hooked the positive (red) to the battery and the negative to a bolt inside the trunk. then i spliced the rear speaker wires and ran the wire from the speakers to the hi-level input on the sub.. what am i doing wrong?

 

Check the fuse on the power wire and make sure its not blown.
If the unit also has RCAs then there is usualy a switch to set the suto-sensing, make sure it is on.

Do the rear speakers have sound?
DOuble check the wires from the speakers to the bass tube. Make sure you dind't accidenly put some in the wrong place.

 

yeah the rear speakers work.. the fuse is fine too..

 

Either the speaker wires are messed up or its DOA.

 

is there a remote turn-on wire which will let the amp know there is power and it should turn on?

should be connected to a wire/fuse that when the radio is on the amp should be on.....

 

I agree check for the yellow or orange wirec as a remote on!!

 

yeah there's an orange wire.. but the instructions said to not connect it to anything so that it'll turn on by itself..

 

Are you sure your ground is good? "A bolt" in the trunk - does this bolt connect to the structure of the car? Did you scrape the paint to make sure it's bare metal contact?

Just as an example - I installed some driving lights on my wife's truck, and they are supposed to be "self-grounding" - meaning that as long as they are bolted to metal, the bolt acts as the ground so they will light up. I installed them on a "bumper thumper" - push-bumper - on the front, and it si powdercoated. No good. So I scraped the powdercoat where the lights mounted - still no good. Even though the push-bumper is drilled into the steel bumper of the truck, there is too much paint on both bumpers for good contact. I wound up having to run my own ground wires back into the engine bay, mounted to a bolt with good contact with the car's structure - the lights now work perfectly.

Check that ground. And if that's not it, investigate using the remote wire.

~HH

 

ok well i took it back and exchanged it for a new one.. and it works now!! i guess the first one was broke.. but thanks everybody for trying to help