radio question, strange......
09-04-2005, 12:35 AM
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radio question, strange......
Ok, i posted a few weeks ago about why my radio would not work. well i finally got around to checking it out and found out 3 things: first being both speakers were shot, checked them on my other car. Second, the radio will power an old speaker i had laying around so i know that it works. Third, and strangest is that only one output of the factory radio works, the drivers side. The passenger side output does not work at all. My question is, would it hurt the radio to split the drivers side to power both sides, and what could possiblly make one side work, and not the other 
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09-04-2005, 11:13 AM
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This is kind of a stupid q but did you check the balance?the problem you have wiring the two speakers together is it drops the ohms.for exp.hooking an 8 ohm speaker in parallel with another 8 ohm speaker drops the total load down to 4 ohms.same as a 10 ohm speaker in parallel with a 10 ohm speaker makes it a total of 5 ohms.I beleive gm radio excepts 10 ohm speakers,anything below this may burn up your working channel(the drivers side).your best bet is to bring it to the repair shop,Darryl
09-04-2005, 07:43 PM
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I actually forgot to check the balance until today, and that did not fix it either. The strange thing is if all is quiet, i can actually hear what is coming into the radio, kind of like it has a speaker but none are hooked up. its driving me crazy
09-04-2005, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by strack350
I actually forgot to check the balance until today, and that did not fix it either. The strange thing is if all is quiet, i can actually hear what is coming into the radio, kind of like it has a speaker but none are hooked up. its driving me crazy
with big G,see what happens when you hook it up to the amp,dont forget you need a good signal to determine if its working right,
09-04-2005, 10:50 PM
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OK, i just came in from "tinkering" with it and im done for the night. I had it hooked up to the amp the whole time. I even reversed the plug going into the amp to see if it would change which speaker worked. It didnt and i can still hear the music just barely when the speakers are not hooked up. looks like ill be hitting ebay, or if some one happens to have one here.........hint hint 