At 09:56 4/15/99 -0700, John-Reed Maffeo wrote: >I have a four speaker stereo and there are four stock speakers >in the van. My problem is that there are only three wires >running to the rear speakers and I have four wires comming >out of my stereo. > >The guess I made at hooking them up sounds horrible. As I turn >up the volume distortion becomes horrible (and I think the >amp starts to heat up). I just bet it does! Don't do it any more, you might fry your amp. The problem you have is that your speakers are wired with a common ground, hence left-hot, right-hot, ground -- while your amp has separate "grounds" for each channel. What you need to do is to remove the common wire from one of your speakers, and add a return wire to that speaker. Now you have four wires, proceed normally. (Probably the return wire goes to one speaker, then loops over to the other) david David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net |
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