What is an Amplifier Remote Turn-On Wire?

Watch as we explore the functionality of an amplifier remote turn-on wire.

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[tylerbarnes]

This was the most helpful video I’ve found. Thank you so much. This was extremely detailed for people who aren’t super savvy with car stereos lol

[costafinkel]

Congrats man! The video went directly to the point, but still managed to be quite detailed. Keep it up.

[PRCHUTE]

Great video, I just wanted to add, Do NOT wire your amplifiers rem to the radios 12v constant( typically the yellow wire )! this will cause your amp to be on when the car is off and drain your battery.

[NMONEY]

Installing an amp today, this was the one step I missed 😂

[slaternapier]

nearly a decade later. this info is still helpful for head units with touch screens and phone-play. thank you

[MrAStompy]

Can you split the remote turn-on wire and feed 2 amps with it? Or run one remote turn-on wire and loop it out to the second amp if it is closeby?

[Gidenkidenk]

I was struggling to find a remote wire and hooked up to the antenna after watching this video!! Sub's are working!!!! Thank you!!!!

[pedrocarr]

Allen ! Nicely done sir. I learned a lot and it's because of your work many many people like me are learning cool things . Thanks again.

[LaBrother]

I just hooked up my remote wire to the 12v cigarette plug. Works fine since the plug is only on when the car is on. Just make sure to hook it up the the + terminal(the tip)... The remote wire just tells the amp when to turn on so it doesn't drain the car battery.

[fastfoodpitstops]

Excellent video! I bought my wife a Land Rover Freelander which has a factory Harmon Kardon amp under the drivers seat that I didn't even know about. I installed a new head unit and speakers as factory replacements, using the correct (and only) Metra radio wiring adapter and dash kit. Head unit powered on, no sound. There's no mention of this in Crutchfield where I bought my adapters and connectors for this install so I did some internet digging and found out there's a hidden factory amp and it's obviously not powering on now. So thanks to this video and very detailed explanation and a schematic on another site showing the remote turn on pin for the factory amp, I am going to splice an inline fuse between the remote wire coming out of the factory amp plug and the rear 12V lighter adapter that sits at the back of the center console for rear passengers so it turns on when my key is on.

[misha]

This is a very good video, thanks! Exactly what I needed

[rodkluth]

Thanks bud was looking around for 45 min online until i fell on this and figured it out right away

[IMPTIGO]

Isn't it better to connect the remote wire to a fuse (by using a fuse tap) if your factory stereo doesn't have a remote wire to connect to? Problem with connecting to acc or ignition is that you can get a surge of signal when you turn on your car to acc or ignition that could damage the amp and/speakers.

[abilio]

Thank you SO MUCH for your video. After spending 6 hours trying to figure out why I didn't have and sound and after taking my radio back thinking it was a bad unit, I was able to resolve my no sound problem in 2 minutes after watching your video. THANK YOU!

[YBODiver]

I’ve been looking for this video for about a year and have been holding off paying someone hundred quid for about 2 months to do it myself and save the money. Fully sorted now thanks a lot

[ztoob]

Thanks for making this video! I'm using an automotive class D amplifier for non-automotive use, and the instructions with the amp just said: "Connect the REM terminal to the remote control wire from the head unit with 18 AWG wire." Well, I don't have a head unit; I just needed to know what to do with the REM to turn the stupid thing on: tie to 12V? to Ground? to one or the other through a resistor? Thanks to your tutorial, I felt confident in connecting it directly to 12V, and it came up as expected. Thanks again for supplying information the manufacturer didn't see fit to include in the stupid manual!

[fortnitefortnite]

Really simple to understand and straightforward video thanks mate. sending likes from Aus

[deesnuts]

Some dumbasses think that because they know one thing, it's a crime not to know what they know. That just means that you know one thing and the rest of your life is shit. Thanks for the educational video.

[BanditoCGET]

Hey, I have a quick question. I currently have 1 amp for 2 subwoofers. I want to add another amplifier for the mids and highs I will be getting soon. Will I need to run another remote turn on wire to that amp as well? Do I just split the blue/white wire into two so I have one for each amplifier? Sorry I'm new at this and I want to do it right.

[Ohseekiing]

So i bought my new deck and connected the blue white wire from the new deck to the wire harness i bought. I just bought an amp and i don't know where to connect the remote wire since the blue white is all ready connected to the wire harness. Should i connect all 3? Do i connect the blue white from the deck to the wire harness and also to the amp remote? I disconnected the blue white wire from the wire harness and just connected the blue white from the deck to the remote to the amp but my speakers wont work now. I'm thinking i need to connect all 3 wires together