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Old 12-13-2006, 09:53 PM   #16
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Re: HELP! ASAP! Potential FIRE!!

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It's a pyramid, it's not 1600 watts, you'd be lucky if it was 300

I'm saying the amp probably blew because it's a Pyramid which is quite possibly the worst brand there is in this hobby, but before you hook up any other amp you need to check what impedance the speakers are wired to because whoever installed it may have wired them to some ridiculously low impedance that would blow any amp that tried to power them.
So how do I go about doing that? the speakers are wired with 16 gage wire i believe. is that what your talking about?
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Re: HELP! ASAP! Potential FIRE!!

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the first step is buying/finding a multimeter, then you just set it to measure resistance and put the terminals on the wires coming from the box (make sure to disconnect them from the amp first).

That's if you want to do it practically, if you want to do it theoretically then you need to find out the impedance and voice coil configuration of your subs and figure out how they're wired (series, series/series, series/parallel, parallel, parallel/parallel) and you can figure it out that way.
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