Kicker ZX 700.5 - started smoking today

[Timmy!]

Head unit does not come on in either the accessory position or the on position of the key. Inline fuses both looked good.

It was dark and I was tired, I'm sure I will get it figured out today.

[philwsailz]

Hey guys-

I am workinf from a different comouter, and need to fire my other one up, but it might be worth checking were the yellow wire goes. I recall that by ABYC guidelines, yellow in a marine loom can be negative... hang tight

[philwsailz]

Okay, yellow can be a B- negative conductor:



The yellow wire you have going to the battery B+. Is it a big wire, like #10 AWG????

Did you recently install a new battery? If so, there is a chance that someone removed the yellow negative conductor from the B- of the battery, ad upon re-insalling, accidentally put it on B+

I bet the yellow wire from the head unit is not connected to the big yellow wire going to the battery...

[dogbert]

Did you recently install a new battery? If so, there is a chance that someone removed the yellow negative conductor from the B- of the battery, ad upon re-insalling, accidentally put it on B+

Would that be he who shall not be named who did that?

[Timmy!]

Ok, got it all working again. I went back today and checked the voltage on the battery, 12.06 volts (low). Head unit tried to come on and then shut off immediately. Checked the battery again, 5 volts! Double checked everything one more time and headed over the world's greatest boat dealership, WWS. Pulled the battery and put it on their charger and it threw codes saying it was basically shorted out and wouldn't take a charge.

We swapped in a new battery and after an hour of playing with the configuration, have everything back up and running. For whatever reason, Tige was using the old version of the 700.5's functionality of not needing the sub amp rca's, they are there but not hooked up (they had plugs on the end). I ran some Y-adapters off of the deck to hook up the rca's for the sub amp and the whole system sounds a ton better.

Thanks for everyone's troubleshooting tips, advice and help but most importantly thanks to Wakeboard and Waterski Specialty for letting Cory abandon the full shop and help me get everything squared away.