Rockford Fosgate PCH-414, PCH-514, PCH-614 Tr O U B L E S H O O T I N G, Symptom Diagnosis Remedy

TR O U B L E S H O O T I N G

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Symptom	Diagnosis	Remedy
No sound from	Wires between amplifier,	Check and repair or
speakers	crossover and speakers	replace wiring as needed.
	not connected properly.
	Amplifier has no output.	Check system with known
		working amplifier and re-
		pair or replace as needed.
	Speaker wires are	Check for shorts in the
	shorted to each other or	wiring with a volt/ohm
	to the chassis of the	meter and repair or
	vehicle.	replaced wires as needed.
	Speakers are blown.	Check system with known
		working speaker and repair
		or replace as needed.
Tweeters “burn	Crossover is in “passive fil-	Check wiring and re-config-
up” easily	ter bypass” configuration.	ure as needed.
	External crossover is not fil-	Check configuration of ex-
	tering the tweeter properly.	ternal crossover and re-con-
		figure for at least 6kHz @
		18dB/octave
	Excessive clipping from	Check gain settings on am-
	amplifier.	plifier and readjust as
		needed.
	Equalizer in system (if avail-	Check settings on equalizer
	able) has excessive boost in	and readjust as needed.
	the high frequency range.
Distorted sound	Incorrect wiring between	Check wiring and repair
from speakers	crossover and speakers	or replace as needed.
Engine Noise	Speaker wires shorted	Check for shorts in the wir-
	to chassis of vehicle.	ing with a volt/ohm meter
from One
		and repair or replace wires
or More
		as needed.
Speakers
	Crossover is mounted near	Move crossovers away from
	radiated noise source.	noise sources. (Refer to In-
	(Power cables, computers,	stallation section of manual
	etc.)	on crossovers.)

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