This thread is like an electrical circuit, round & round the current flows lol...
When you connect your amp;
Speaker wires first---Protects output stage on some amps which have basically been poorly designed, (Blaupunkt 'Burning Desire' as an example)....simply put, no load=burnt out output stage....
Amplifier Earth---If Earth is correctly sited and a good contact offers a path of least resistance for the current on its return to its source/supply....
Amplifier Battery supply---This connection is made with the fuse removed, this means there is no chance of any current flow, you could short it to ground with no ill effects....(check item 5 in the original connection sequence).....
Amplifier remote turn on---Allows amp to be tested in situ....
Fit main supply Fuse---completes the circuit, Any undue voltage/current will follow the path of least resistance, (If RCA leads were fitted at this point its possible that if there is a problem with the amp earth the amp will earth via the RCA leads and head unit earth causing head unit earth track damage).....
HAS THE PENNY DROPPED YET??????????
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO METHODS OF CONNECTION, YOUR METHOD IS -VE FIRST THEN +VE....
MINE IS +VE FIRST,(NO FUSE), THEN -VE, THEN FIT FUSE.....
THE CONNECTION SEQUENCE ISN'T YOUR PROBLEM, THE BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN IS....
YOUR METHOD, MY METHOD, DOESN'T MATTER, DC CURRENT INTO SPEAKERS MEANS FAULTY AMP, PERIOD....
@ agithegreat, sorry mate, I'm now going outside to bang my head against a wall....I will not be posting in this thread again....
All I asked for was a good reason for not connecting speakers first, all I got was DC running into speakers???? This would happen as soon as Dink fitted them at a later time anyway.....
@ Whoever may have read this far, Please feel free to draw your own conclusions and follow whichever line or method that you believe to be correct.....
ONCE AGAIN, SORRY TO ALL IF I HAVE OFFENDED ANYONE....