Make sure you ground the amp to the negative on the battery. If you don't you will have clipping issues. I know in vehicles the ground wire should be short and grounded to the frame, but on bikes it doesn't work the same way, just take my word on this. I've seen several people have lots of issues by trying to ground the amp somewhere other than the battery.
OK. Well I'm still wrong somewhere. I have power to my amp, but no power to the radio. I must be doing something wrong with the toggle?
Here's how I wired my fairing:- 2 pairs (4 wires total) of 10awg wires running from the battery to the front of the tank. The positive wires both have fuses inline and there are SAE-2 (battery tender) connectors at the front of the tank so it can easily be removed. 1 pair is meant for powering the amp and the other powers everything else in the fairing. I wired them with the same size wire and the same fuse ratings so that I don't have to worry about which is which when attaching the fairing.- The amp has its own pair of 10awg wires that run out of the fairing to the front of the tank.- I epoxied an "adjustable foot" with a 1/4" threaded shaft into the fairing to use as a common grounding post. The 10awg wire from the battery is attached to this with a ring terminal and all the ground wires except the amp runs to this post.- The 10awg hot wire is attached to a 3 terminal fuse block: -- Fuse A is for the constant power lead on the head unit -- Fuse B runs to the switched power for the radio, via a waterproof toggle switch on the fairing. The volt meter I installed is also attached to this lead so that it is turned off along with the radio and doesn't drain the battery. -- Fuse C runs to a power outlet I stashed in a windshield bag for charging my cell phone.
- run a thick lead between the pos battery terminal and the fuse block (with appropriate fuses installed separately for the amp and two for the radio
Quote from: Radarcontact on April 03, 2015, 02:10:55 am- run a thick lead between the pos battery terminal and the fuse block (with appropriate fuses installed separately for the amp and two for the radioEverything I've ever read says the amp needs to be on it's own power line to prevent electrical interference (IOW static) from other electrical components.