KickerCS Upgrade with Kicker Key amp Install Assistance

OK, once you have your meter, DM me and post what you got so I can see the available settings and I'll help walk you through some troubleshooting

 

To the people that have actually done this upgrade. Are the 6x9 Coax in the front and upgraded tweeters in the dash to much high range sound ? Thank you very much and I appreciate your time.

 

To anyone following my plight, it turns out you are supposed to peal the wires on kicker harness and redwolf harness and splice those strands individually together, meaning each side of the kicker key has x8 individual connections (16 total). This was not explicitly clear to me. I've corrected the male side of harness, will be re-splicing female side tomorrow to hopefully fix this once and for all

Edit: got impatient, went out there and finished the other half of my harness. It works! @destin_meeks you are a cherished member of this community, thanks for your coaching, patience and support lol.

Will auto-tune it tomorrow with pink noise file. Very impressed almost immediately with the gains barely above lowest setting too

 

I’m just proud of people willing to step out and try the install! It’s usually the simple things that get us messed up because they’re so easy to overlook

 

just to be clear, you had connected the bulk of the wires on each side of the amp together?

glad you got it figured out though! never forget-- no matter the skill level, we've all done dumb stuff, and sometimes it makes for a better success later! that recent 'pioneer speaker' thread, where i mentioned chasing a distortion issue for a while? in an effort to correct it, i directly applied battery power across the audio cables to attempt to 'offset' the signal enough because i was running out of ideas. instead, i blew out a radio, line driver, crossover, and 2 amps...

most importantly, all your equipment still works, despite any misunderstandings about hooking it up, and you've now got a new tool, and a new set of skills that are better honed than they were before!

 

I didn't take an after picture, but here is a picture of my mistake that cost me 2 days of head scratching. You can clearly see I have both grays (gray and gray/black) on key side connected to the other matching grays on harness, but spliced in pairs, not individually. So you see 4 connections, which was wrong. It should be 8 connections per side, 16 total (input and output)

 

i see. big points for being consistent though! and your crimping technique looks good, which is better than many connections i've had to repair!

fortunately, all the colors are easy to identify, and the a black stripe is also easily visible once you know what you're looking for.

once/if you get further into vehicle wiring, much of it will be a solid color, with a secondary color as the stripe. but then the color molding process alters the colors, as does our personal definitions of colors is different, which makes it even harder... for instance, i'm working a lot on fords that have a brown(solid)/green(stripe) that looks closer to gray/orangy, or a violet/orange that i would define as a blue/yellow. but then in the same bundle will also be a 'real' gray/orange, and a blue/yellow, so trying to figure out if it's 'this' gray/orange, or 'this' gray/orange adds another level of complexity to any project