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<blockquote data-quote="HardofWhoring" data-source="post: 8850245" data-attributes="member: 674149"><p>If you're losing power to the head unit, or to all of the speakers, then it's your head unit connections, and your speaker wire has nothing to do with it. It could only be speaker wire if only one of them is going out. If it's your head unit all or none, then there's only 3 wires it could be: 12v, accessory or ground. When it starts to go out like that, you have a bad connection. That is how things burn up and fires get started. A weak connection causes a lot of resistance and a lot of heat until the heat becomes too much. I would honestly turn the head unit off until you get it fixed. Head unit's connections are generally so small that you can't create enough heat, but when this happens with bigger cables, that is how vehicles burn to the ground. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Your best option, (assuming you don't have one right now) is to get a proper crimper ($20 or so), a harness adapter ($10), some connectors, and spend the time to do it right. You've got 6 maybe 12 connectors that matter. </p><p></p><p>There are easier, cheaper ways, but IMHO spend the $30-$40 to get the equipment to do it right, and fix the problem for good. You could solder instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardofWhoring, post: 8850245, member: 674149"] If you're losing power to the head unit, or to all of the speakers, then it's your head unit connections, and your speaker wire has nothing to do with it. It could only be speaker wire if only one of them is going out. If it's your head unit all or none, then there's only 3 wires it could be: 12v, accessory or ground. When it starts to go out like that, you have a bad connection. That is how things burn up and fires get started. A weak connection causes a lot of resistance and a lot of heat until the heat becomes too much. I would honestly turn the head unit off until you get it fixed. Head unit's connections are generally so small that you can't create enough heat, but when this happens with bigger cables, that is how vehicles burn to the ground. Your best option, (assuming you don't have one right now) is to get a proper crimper ($20 or so), a harness adapter ($10), some connectors, and spend the time to do it right. You've got 6 maybe 12 connectors that matter. There are easier, cheaper ways, but IMHO spend the $30-$40 to get the equipment to do it right, and fix the problem for good. You could solder instead. [/QUOTE]
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