Remote wire question

[taxx]

I am installing my second amp tomorrow and I just want to make sure I don't F anything up. can the remote wire be shared with two amps or can it screw up the head unit? Should I run it to a relay then to the amps?

If it is just a switching wire I cannot see that it really matters...

 

[Boman01]

It shouldnt matter, at least i wouldnt think it would!! I share my remote wire of my amp with my crossover and i have never had a prob.

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

The only thing the remote wire soes is energize a very small relay in the piece of equipment you are running. This uses very little amperage and you can usually hook up as many units as you want. I have two amps off my remote and have had no problems.

 

[taxx]

This uses very little amperage and you can usually hook up as many units as you want

That is what I thought knowing it went to a relay. I was just reading ond sounddomain last night and saw a lot of posts against it. People who cthink they are experts( the worst tyope in my opinion), say it will burn up your HU, but I have a fair amount of knowledge and understanding of relays so I didn't believe it and I thought I would confirm it here. (I haven't been steered wrong here yet.)

I'll have pics of the finished install and enclosure this weekend

 

[taxx]

Just closing out thread, to see completed project:

Dead Link Removed

 

[mperryewu]

As far as remote turn-on's, I've been told this and I have taken it to heart:

Yes, you can burn up the Remote Turn-On switching in your HU. 3 or 4 units to turn on is fine, but what I did was actually fuse my Remote-On with 0.5A (that's 1/2 an Amp fuse) and am turning on my 1/2 DIN EQ, my Capacitor, and my Amp.

Haven't had any problems yet

Talk with u later,
-Mike Perry

 

[casper]

yes it is perfectlly fine to use the same remote wire to turn on 2 amps....in my own personnal experience i have hooked up 5 amps on one remote wire, but the remote wire was fused....been a couple years since i did it for a living, but a 1 amp fuse sticks in my head, but short term memory loss has my ears smoking.
i would stronglly recomend, even if you were only turning on one amp that you use a fuse (.5a)

casper