Sub stopped working but still has power

[Charlie12]

I have a vibe black air sub with built in amp , the blue lights on sub still come on but I have a small control box where I can alter frequency and gain , the light for this is off , all was working perfect until mid song it cut out and not won't work , any solutions?

 

[zeta]

What's the voltage reading like across the positive and negatives of the amp with the engine running? Is the control box part of the amp/boot setup or remote near the driver?

 

[Charlie12]

I haven't got my multimeter from my mate , the sub was working fine until on route home from work it just stopped , the control box comes from sub to the drivers seat via an Ethernet port like cable

 

[Dink]

is the blue light a power indicator or some sort of effect lighting?

as you could still get enought to drive some LEDs off the remote power

 

[Charlie12]

I'm not sure , I only just got it last week it could just be LED , it's lights in the 2 ports

 

[Dink]

ahh well they could be running off the remote. try taking your fuse out of the power line for the sub and switching the head unit on

 

[Charlie12]

Will do in morning

 

[Charlie12]

Checked the fuse on power line it looks whole and not burnt

 

[l33th3tr33]

Are your RCA leads damaged? They could have got trapped somewhere and ripped. The same happened to my remote wire which stopped the amp from powering up.

 

[AlexTurner]

^
ive had both of those problems. i put a rocker switch in the live cable and bypassed the remote with a small live loop to the remote port and then controlled the power with the switch i put in, just behind the gear stick.
easy enough to do and stops any chance of the remote wire breaking as theyre flimsy as hell

 

[Charlie12]

The control box that controls frequency and gain doesn't have a power light on it , would this stop the sub working ?

 

[AlexTurner]

Does the control box have the supply to your amp? I.e. Battery - control box - amp - sub

 

[l33th3tr33]

^
ive had both of those problems. i put a rocker switch in the live cable and bypassed the remote with a small live loop to the remote port and then controlled the power with the switch i put in, just behind the gear stick.
easy enough to do and stops any chance of the remote wire breaking as theyre flimsy as hell

Speaker wire I don't know why they make them so s**t! Massive waste of material.

 

[AlexTurner]

Speaker wire is awful too haha. Just crumbles all over the place

 

[l33th3tr33]

It's better than remote wire though, and once routed properly it doesn't matter how fragile it is.

 

[AlexTurner]

Yep. Ive never heard of this control box like. All of the dials are on my amp

 

[l33th3tr33]

Same. Pics are needed to help any further I think.

 

[Dink]

the control box will just be a remote control for the bass and gain i imagine

you need to take the fuse out and switch the head unit on and see if the LEDs come on

 

[Reed67]

Check the blue wire which tell the stereo it's on and off. It might of come loose

 

[l33th3tr33]

Check the blue wire which tell the stereo it's on and off. It might of come loose

I mentioned that further up.

 

[Dredz06]

How old is the sub? one of mine stopped working a while back and I unscrewed the sub and took it out of the box to find the tinsel wire had blown off it.