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Maintenance Guides / wiring in an amp (part 2)
« on: 14 August 2006, 16:14:30 »
today i got on with the amp itself, i knew where it was going and last night i had a quick look to see if there were going to be any issues that were glaringing obvious.
First job was to strip out the rear shelf and blind assembly, i have done a how to on the in the past so i won't repeat myself here.
once that's out you are left with this, the screws to undo the bose tray have been circled
Once they are undone you then have 2 clip near the back window, unclip them and the tray will drop down, it may be worth having someone there to grab it
Into the boot and this is what you will be presented with....a Bose amp in a tray....
The blue connector does everything, inputs, outputs, power, ground and remote
The wiring goes something like this
Red - power
brown - earth
red/white - remote
you then have 4 wires, all of them black, they are the inputs, when you strip them back you will find a shield wire, positive and negative speaker cable, the colours of thew wires will correspond with the colors of the wires going back to the speakers
you then have
2 white/brown
2 white NSR door and parcel shelf speaker
2 green/brown
2 green OSR door and parcel shelf speakers
1 yellow/brown
1 yellow OSF door speakers
1 blue/brown
1 blue NSF door speakers
with the tray out and the blue multiplug cut away from the loom the next job was to cut the tray as the Alpine is a little bit bigger than the tray
A couple of dremel bits later and this is the end result, we had to take out the middle pillar as the amp will be sat right on top of it
from here it was plain sailing, connect up the power feed i had threaded yesterday, find a suitable earth point, connect up the phono leads and speaker connectors and away we go
As you can see the Alpine is a 'little' bigger than the tray, but it fits in there ok....
and in place , all bolted up.....
from here it was a case of fitting it all back together and making sure it all ran fine
the sound is brilliant, a lot richer than the bose amp, although i my have to turn the hi pass filter off as it does get a bit too bassey through the standard speakers.
Next step will be the subs and corresponding amp, that will not take any time at all now as all the donkey work has been done on that, just plug and play
First job was to strip out the rear shelf and blind assembly, i have done a how to on the in the past so i won't repeat myself here.
once that's out you are left with this, the screws to undo the bose tray have been circled
Once they are undone you then have 2 clip near the back window, unclip them and the tray will drop down, it may be worth having someone there to grab it
Into the boot and this is what you will be presented with....a Bose amp in a tray....
The blue connector does everything, inputs, outputs, power, ground and remote
The wiring goes something like this
Red - power
brown - earth
red/white - remote
you then have 4 wires, all of them black, they are the inputs, when you strip them back you will find a shield wire, positive and negative speaker cable, the colours of thew wires will correspond with the colors of the wires going back to the speakers
you then have
2 white/brown
2 white NSR door and parcel shelf speaker
2 green/brown
2 green OSR door and parcel shelf speakers
1 yellow/brown
1 yellow OSF door speakers
1 blue/brown
1 blue NSF door speakers
with the tray out and the blue multiplug cut away from the loom the next job was to cut the tray as the Alpine is a little bit bigger than the tray
A couple of dremel bits later and this is the end result, we had to take out the middle pillar as the amp will be sat right on top of it
from here it was plain sailing, connect up the power feed i had threaded yesterday, find a suitable earth point, connect up the phono leads and speaker connectors and away we go
As you can see the Alpine is a 'little' bigger than the tray, but it fits in there ok....
and in place , all bolted up.....
from here it was a case of fitting it all back together and making sure it all ran fine
the sound is brilliant, a lot richer than the bose amp, although i my have to turn the hi pass filter off as it does get a bit too bassey through the standard speakers.
Next step will be the subs and corresponding amp, that will not take any time at all now as all the donkey work has been done on that, just plug and play
