Engine Whine Through Speakers
07-17-2002
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Engine Whine Through Speakers
Alrightg fellas, I noticed I'm getting some nasty engine whine through my speakers. Now, up to this point I had thought engine whine was from running your RCA's and power down the same side of the car. I only have my clarion headunit installed. Any ideas what could be causing the whine? Thanks fellas!
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Rep Power: 0 Running your unshielded RCA's down the drivers side of the car where there's a nice big fuse box [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG].. also in your trunk..putting the RCA's withing 12 inches of the power wire..
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Rep Power: 0 Yeah, I know about the RCA's. But I dont have any in the car! All I have is my Clarion HeadUnit. I can't figure out why I am getting whine. Anyone?
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Rep Power: 319 Do this.... take the HU back out... then move the wire harness around a little bit..... I.E. if it's more on the right, then move it to the left... tell me if that works...
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Rep Power: 0 i had no engine whine problems in my car until i installed my components... now my tweeters whine and they give off static noise when there's no music playing.. what's the problem here? i used the same rca's that i'm using for the subs and amp, for the components and their amp (w/ some kind of rca splitter).
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Rep Power: 0 jus go to radioshake they have a lil thing that plugs into your rcas, i forget what its called but once i did it, no mas whine [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG]
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Yeah. I had the same problem with my stereo. I was getting *mad* whine after I had my stereo installed. It seems that the morons at a professional shop decided to run the RCAs down the same side as the power wire. 
[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG] All they did was give me a LPF and I slapped it on inbetween the RCAs and the amp and everything is golden!
A LPF shouldn't be that expensive. Check out your local car audio dealers for one.
[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG] All they did was give me a LPF and I slapped it on inbetween the RCAs and the amp and everything is golden! A LPF shouldn't be that expensive. Check out your local car audio dealers for one.
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Rep Power: 0 could the problem possibly be that i ran the wire from the components to the amp down the centre console with all of those other wires going to the back?
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[hr]Originally posted by: PK2K1
blackSI was that for me or the other guy?[hr]
[hr]Originally posted by: PK2K1
blackSI was that for me or the other guy?[hr]
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Rep Power: 0 I had my system professionally installed and I have the whine, my car before my 2k1 Civic also had it's system professionally installed by a different company and person and it had the whine. I truly thought it was unavoidable until I heard some of these great suggestions from this thread!
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