Ok, so installed a basslink with my whole huge system in late sept. Around 3 weeks later the thing became intermittent and would work sometimes and just cut out. I have a good ground and power and the remote wire is fine. I play it pretty loud but the gain is only maybe 2/3 of the way up and it doesnt feel super hot. SO i exchanged it for a new one close to late october. Ever since then it has been fine and never cuts out UNTIL tonight. It cut out after the first 10 mins i was driving tonight and then like a few mins later it seems when i turn it up and it hits a high bass note the thing will cut back in....freakin weird. So for the rest of my 30 min drive home i played my system pretty loud and it knick on wood hasnt cut out since. I just dont trust this thing tho. What is goin on? has anyone experienced this before with the basslink? If it happens again tommorow im buying one and then returning the screwed up one in that box later this week.

HELP

 

anyone got a clue or ever had this problem?

 

I'd check all of your outgoing speaker wires. Sounds like one of the speaker wires rubbed through the insulation and is shorting out the amp.

 

speaker wires?? i only had rca's going to the basslink man....

 

LOL, oh yeah sorry. Anyways, sounds like maybe one of the channels is going out. Could be from the one of the RCA's shorting out.

 

nah that wouldnt make sense because its been perfect for like 4 months or so and my first basslink had this problem....

 

That's why I doubt it's the actual sub itself. Pretty unlikely to get two bad units. I also assumed you were using the same RCA wires, that's how I'd do it.

 

why would both of them work for like weeks on end and then jus start having the problem....if it were the rca's it shoulda done it the whole time or at least sometime during the first 4 months i had the second unit

 

Well, when you installed the new one, it might've moved the RCA cables off of the worn through spot. Couple months more vibration and voila, you've got a new short in the cable.

 

i dont wanna go through the whole process of taking apart the car to relay a new rca, and i doubt thats the prob

 

Might not be the prob.

If you've got a multimeter, when it starts acting funny, you can check for a short to ground fairly easily. No need to tear your car apart.

 

if i get a multimeter what would i test? like would i test the voltage out of the rca or something explain. Sorry for my stupidity ha....

 

With power off, you'd set the multimeter to Ohm's. One lead would be on the metal frame of the car (a bolt head works great), the other end would be on the center conductor of the RCA cables. If it reads 0 Ohms or close to it, you've got a short.

Trick is, you've got to be sure that the problem is occuring at that moment and not move the cable very much so as not to disturb the possible short.

 

BTW, the ohm symbol looks like an upside down horseshoe with feet. I tried to paste the symbol onto this reply, but apparently the forum software doesn't like that symbol.

It might not actually say the words ohm on the multimeter itself to just look for that symbol.

 

Looks like the symbol on this shirt. Sorry, it's the only pic I could find quickly.

 

well i found that the rca isnt the problem. The sub went out intermittently earlier today and i got a portable cd player and took a headphone to RCA cable and apparently the basslink still didnt work. The power to the basslink was still working tho. I think maybe the speaker leads or some connection became loose or busted inside the actual basslink. I play it hard but not overly hard, i set the gain up to around 2/3rds of the way but there isnt even any audible distortion so i dunno. Anyways I ended up switching out the basslinks today so i have a working one now. But this is my 3rd basslink. If this problem happens again I am going to have a custome enclosure built in that location and i guess buy and amp and sub. i hope this 3rd basslink is the charm...

 

Hey, my friend and I both have basslink's, mines only been in for about a week, his three weeks. After 2 weeks his cut out strangely, we weren't sure why, it wouldn't even turn on anymore. The wiring was fine, after tons of trial and error we finally discovered that the fuse holder in the power wire from the battery was so damn cheap that if you twisted it the basslink would turn on and off randomly, so we replaced it with an inline fuse holder I had spare and it works fine now for him, I'm not sure what problems you are having but we found that his worked fine when we changed the fuse on the power wire, your problem sounds different just sharing.. mines been working fine so far..