I have a pioneer gm 3000 that i got for xmas, its running a rocford 10.
My question is, There is no power going to it. Notta thing.
Ground is proper, power is proper. When i touch the power cord to the power connecter i hear a pop threw my speakers.
is my amp pooched? Or did i just fuck up.
I think my ground may have somthing to do with it.
Its as thick as a power gauge, and goes to below the carpet, at the rear on the right hand side, the belt.
Most amps have a little LED light when they are powered on. Does yours?
If you hear a pop in the sub then you have some sort of power going through the amp.
If the pop is in a pair of speakers not connected to the amp, then you have a shitty peice of electronics somewhere in the line… don’t connect that line while the car is on. However… hearing that pop means a cicuit is being completed, which at least tells you that your amp is being turned on by the remote wire. So one could assume it is getting power.
If you hear no sound, but your amp powers up… all you can do is troubleshoot one thing at a time. Start with the input from the deck, make sure they work by testing it with known working equipment, then test the sub, check all connections. If it still doesn’t work, then you know it is something in your amp.
the light dosnt come on. Its popping when i connect it with power on. nothing at all happens when its already connected and i turn the car on.
Is it possible that the wires from my deck to my amp are bad, or from the batt to the amp is bad.
Sorry i dont know alot about this
Something is fishy if your amp power light does not come on, but it pops when you connect the wire.
if your power wires were bad, you wouldn’t hear the pop your’e describing. However your signal wires could be bad and your amp is simply getting no signal.
It will only pop if a circuit is being completed, and a circuit will only be completed if the remote wire from the deck to the amp sends a signal and effectively flips a (internal) switch.
I am going to go out on a limb and say your amp is messed somehow… so troubleshoot as if that were the case (borrow another amp and see if it works).
Make sure you wired up the remote lead (usually blue) properly. Also you could try another ground attachment point, but I doubt that’s the problem. Like you said, check the connection between the deck and the amp.
pioneer amps are weird… I believe ? anyway… that if they will not work its because the ground is not good enough.
my ex had a pioneer amp and when i tried to hook it up in my car it wouldnt work at all so i got it tested and it was fine… i hooked my amp back up and it worked perfectly… went to hook it back up in the car it came from and it wouldnt work…
LED light was coming on and everything… so its very strange as to why it wouldnt work ?
Do you have 12v+ going to the REM on the amp?
i have no idea what an rem is
Did you install the amp yourself? For it to work you have to have a positive power wire, a ground, a remote wire, and signal wires. Adam is asking if you connected the remote wire.
actually now that i think about it the kit i bought only had the Rca’s power, ground, and wires to connect the amp to the sub.
The remote wire, whats it look like, and can i buy it sepratly.
It’s just a wire… usually like 18 or 20ga, not big. It connects to the REM/remote output from your head unit, the standard color code of which is blue. The other end plugs into the remote terminal on your amp.
If you still have your head-unit manual it’ll tell you that I believe. Some have diagrams showing you possible situations with people and sound systems. All of the amp rem wires would sequentially connect to eachother and than the end thats left connects to the (often) blue wire from the HU harness (iirc).
90% sure it is a bad rem connection…try to remake the connection at the back of the deck
also - you may have connected the signal wires to the auxilary terminals on the deck (i have done this by mistake in the past) so check and make sure that they are connected to the right pre-outs
The REM wire on the back of the headunit is Blue with a Wite Stripe
The Ant. wire is Blue.
If you have both don’t connect it to the solid blue as it shuts off power when in CD or AUX mode.
What you can do as a test is take a small wire connect it to the 12v+ and touch it to the REM terminal on the Amp. If the amp comes on you know the issue is with the REM wire.
Also where did you get the Ground from?
Dude, on most HUs there is still power to the antenna while the deck is in CD or AUX. It’s what’s making me want to install a separate switch for my antenna to keep it down, cuz I do most of my listening on CD.
Got it all working thanks alot guys 
sounds pretty good.
My remote wire wasnt connect well.
Thanks again guys.