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check you battery terminals, clean them and make sure they are tight, follow the ground to frame, make sure it is tight, does not hurt to add an addtional ground wire same thickness as amp power wire. I have fixed this issue many times doing this!
Sounds like you might have an internal issue in the HU or amplifier. You mentioned that the problem started when you swapped door speakers. In theory the speakers should have nothing to do with the whine, but if somewhere in the process of swapping them the highs amp was shorted it could have caused internal damage to the amplifier. Those older Kicker amps were nice amps, but they had rather ineffective protection circuitry.
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try this, unplug the rca from amp, rev engine do you have noise, no, plug rca in, un plug at radio, rev again, do you have noise?
meter resistance to ground for amp ground should be none, undue speaker leads check them to ground, should be none.
meter resistance to ground for amp ground should be none, undue speaker leads check them to ground, should be none.
Sounds like you might have an internal issue in the HU or amplifier. You mentioned that the problem started when you swapped door speakers. In theory the speakers should have nothing to do with the whine, but if somewhere in the process of swapping them the highs amp was shorted it could have caused internal damage to the amplifier. Those older Kicker amps were nice amps, but they had rather ineffective protection circuitry.
I'll do some more trouble shooting tomorrow and possibly looking for a new highs amp.
Ah...I'd stop using up time troubleshooting and replace the amp at this point. It's very likely that there are various things damaged in the amp and it's manifesting as a whine because of the type and location of the damage internally.
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Unplug the Crossfire's RCA's. if there's no change then it's pretty safe to assume it's fine, and it most likely is. But the kicker is already showing problems, so without actually having it here to run tests I'd go with the amp as the problem.
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