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Wiring Issues With Amp? HELP PLZ

Hey guys need some help here, Ill try and keep it as short as possible, bought a 1971 Sleek Craft and the original owner built a system that has 12" sub and 2 6x9's, plus 1000watt amp powering the sub and 6x9's. I had to remove the sub enclosure for some fiberglass boat repairs and seems once I wired the speakers back together Ive had issues. I thought I didnt connect the sub and mids up correct since they were playen at one time then on a weekend test run recently all sound was gone, but the head unit had power. I had a good Sony head unit I replaced the old with in the boat, Re wired it all back up, yellow to live 12v, red, ground, and blue amp remote all hooked up, with the radio on I can find a station that comes in clear since I have no antenna, the sub works, 6x9 work on radio, sounds fine to me. But when I try to play a cd in the new installed unit, it kills the amp and green power light on the amp? why would switchen to CD or AUX kill the amp, the green power light on the amp slowly dims withen 7 seconds, then amp is off, head unit still on and playing CD, just no sounds coming out, then if I switch back to radio, the music and amp and green light will come back. Ive never heard music when a CD is playing however, but when I switch to play CD, I can see it playing on the unit, time is counting, I can hear the CD spinning? but withen seconds it amp is dead and no sounds? Here some quick pics of the system, they are mounted down where the gas pedal is, but facing out.

grab the blue/white wire behind the deck, you have the power ant lead, so whats happening is when you play the cd its shutting off the blue wire (ant lead)... so disconnect the blue and hook up the blue white instead!!!!!

Originally Posted by Audio Options

grab the blue/white wire behind the deck, you have the power ant lead, so whats happening is when you play the cd its shutting off the blue wire (ant lead)... so disconnect the blue and hook up the blue white instead!!!!!

Isnt the all blue, kinda dark blue the remote amp turn on wire?

nope it is the ant wire, blue white is the remote turn on

Also over the weekend I re wired the system, The original owner had the system wired to the ignition switch, and there was no ACC option in my ignition, So I added a Perco dual battery selector switch and wired the battery's and system the same for each battery, Just now I can select which battery I only want to run, before the switch the 2 batterys were tied/combined together. Now I wired it so I dont need the ignition switch on for my system. So I added what I thought was the BLUE remote amp wire to the POS IN Pwr to the amp, Yellow goes to constant power supply and Red went to Ign Pwr source. SO i need to combine the BLUE and BLUE/WHITE and run it to the amp?

Originally Posted by Blowncat 509

I would dedicate the stereo (and amps) to one battery, that way, it will keep the other
battery as a backup for starting, if you play the thing to long in the cove switch the
perko switch to batt #1 when floating, and bumping, then you are only draining that
battery- if it won't start, then you switch it to 2 to start, then to both when running

I think thats how I have it now right? The system can run off eaither battery depending on the selector switch.

Also I thought I was not supposed to drive to operate the boat on BOTH battery's unless one is dead and need both for starting? Can I drive with BOTH on to charge both battery's without it hurting anything?