I feel you may have misunderstood the function of the amp remote line of the empeg. It is an output line. It will go live when you turn on the empeg, signalling an amp to turn itself on.

Make sure you understand which lines are inputs and which are outputs. Then always connect an output to an input. In one of your posts you desribed that you connected the amp output to the ignition switch, which is of course also an output. I am, like Tony, surprised that you didn't break anything inside the empeg, as two outputs connected to each other usually mean big trouble. Must be the excellent empeg design that saved you here! :-)

Side note: although the amp line of the empeg is an output, it is not designed to deliver all the power an amp needs. So don't hook up your amp's power supply input to it - use your amp's power sense input line instead.

Daniel