greekss

Im pretty sure when i hit the gas i can hear a whine that progressively gets louder as i accelerate..... whats up with that. I recently had a sub installed with amp. Someone tell me im not hearing things and that it is somethin electrical

you2slo

You are experiencing alternator whine. An RCA cable is near a power wire somewhere between the headunit and amp. Make sure the power wire was run on the opposite side of the car from the RCA's. If a store installed it, take it back and they should fix the problem.

maddboost

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Are you using the factory head unit or a aftermarket unit? More often then not the alternator whine is because of a ground loop not a RCA near a power wire. But a RCA near a power wire can sometimes cause that whinning problem. But since you just installed a sub amp I dont see how you can get alternator noise from the RCAs running to your amp. Cause the sound is coming out of your interior speakers.

Jpr5690

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Not Nessarily You Can Get Whine Out Of Subs Which Is Realy Bad... If You Are Not Using A Hpf On Your Amp It Will Sound A Bit Different But Subs Will Attempt To Emit High Tones It Put To Em But Its Is Harm Ful To The Spkr Too

redz_02

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you need to move your rca's or get a set that holds a twisted pair. They attempt to get perpindicular weves so it cancels out noise. I had no noise and had wires everywhere.

Wildman

Sometimes a bad Ground or too long of a Ground will also cause Alternator Whine.

Snootch

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I second the grounding issue. A bad ground, or bad RCA's can also cause a ground loop. I suggest moving the ground of the amp to a solid piece of frame metal, first sanding down the area for a good metal-to-metal contact. As for the bad RCA's maybe a screw got put through one of the RCA wires? I've seen that a few times working as an installer. Good luck finding and solving your problem!

maddboost

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I have never heard alternator whine out of a sub. Or any sound that I would attribute to it. Have you heard this in person in one instance or more than once?

WhiteBird00

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BTW, I've seen this in other posts of yours... Why do you capitalize every word? Is it some inside joke among the old-timers here - or do you just have a thing for butchering the English language? It is very dificult to read (especially when one word, such as "harmful", is split in two and both parts are capitalized).

Just curious...

ModGod

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Yup....you took the Words Right Out of My Mouth. lol

Jpr5690

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mod god look at your post its same as mine... the forum automatically puts it in this format if you type all in caps lock which happens alot when im at work beaocuse the other program we use there requires full times caps so i usally forget to shut it off when im typing thus ls1 tech translates it into this format where every first letter is capitalised as far as my grammar ... well im at work so i dont have time to be checking my grammar

WhiteBird00

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I WONDER WHY IT WOULDN'T JUST CONVERT TO ALL LOWER CASE SO IT WOULD BE EASIER TO READ?

The previous line was typed all in caps to see what the software would do.

Edit: obviously it allows text to be all in caps...

Jpr5690

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Let Me Try This Out I Know Form Work All I Type In Is Caps Lock Beacouse Thats All It Does If Not That I Cannot Offer An Explination To The Issue Simply Beacouse I Am Postive I Dont Try And Capitalise Every Work

Jpr5690

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See There It Goes

Jpr5690

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NOW IF I TYPE IN CAPS LOCK AND ADD A LINE OF
non caps lock i wonder what the result will be

Jpr5690

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well that answers to question try typing noting in a post but caps lock and well thats what results when i do if fomr 2 different computers!

Jpr5690

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mabye it does it to notify the reader that it was typed in caps lock while making it easy 2 read (imo)

WhiteBird00

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That's interesting - I've never seen that before. You would think that the software could be designed to capitalize only the first word of a sentence (following a period, question mark, etc.) or at the very least convert everything to lower case to make it easier to read. Perhaps it's a setting in the forum configuration that the administrators could change?

ModGod

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Just to let you guys know....I typed the above statement like that intentionally to jokingly mock him. I typed it just as it showed up. This whole phenomenon is strange, though. hmmm.......

ModGod

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That's what the 'lol' was for.