Alpine head unit No output...

[TheStitt]

Hi all

I went to make some progress on the wagon stereo.

I have an Alpine CDA-9856, With some Spec R Alpine speakers. I had the 6' fronts with cross overs and tweeters installed in the wagon prior to paint.

After paint I dropped the cross overs and tweeters and just had the H/U driving the fronts (no rears)

I got jack of the crap sound so I went to wire the cross overs and tweeters back in.

I wired the right had side in, turned on the stereo and had 3 speakers working, the tweeter and main speaker on the drivers side and the main speaker on the left. I put all my carpet back in and moved to the left.

I wired in the left cross over and tweeter and went to check. Got nothing..... Head Unit has power with no out put.

I then tried with another speaker, no go
I checked the continuity and it was fine

checked the manual
I checked the internal mutes and device mutes all good
I Played with the Power IC (turns internal amp on and off) still no good.
I hit master reset...

After some cruising on the net it was suggested that the internal amp has died and to try using the RCA out puts..
I did I have an old amp kicking around, So I plugged into the RCA outs and powered the amp and wired in my speaker and got sound!!!

So my question is have I done all I can and is it the internal amp that has died, with little use and for no apparent reason...

thanks

Have a massive 300km cruise tomorrow and want sound for it.....

[Toy77]

don't want to run the amp?
should sound better with the amp running them anyway. or just no where to put the amp?

Cheers
Stew

[TheStitt]

will run amp eventually, I just have a two channel amp from a sub kicking around, that and a 4 channel will go in...

just cash really

also bit of a screw around to mount it all. Either way I have all bar the speaker wires run to where I want to put the amps.

[Toy77]

just use the 2 channel to run the splits for the time being, then when ya fit the 4 channel, swap them over....

cash is always the best bit!!! should see some of my diff quotes lol!

[TheStitt]

not a bad idea my man, not a bad idea...