Noise coming from my amp

Recently I've noticed a noise coming from my amplifier. I have a Kicker subwoofer that is attached to an El Capitan Rocky series amp in my trunk there is a hissing/ringing noise that is coming from my amp. I began noticing the sound after my alarm was installed but I don't think the guy messed with the amp at all. The weird thing is that after about 5 minutes of hissing/ringing, it stops so I don't know what it could be. Do you guys have any idea? Is my amp broken??? :uhoh:

was it grounded right?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was. I never heard the noise until recently so I'm assuming that the grounding is fine.

i dont have a clue

Thanks Stealth....anyone else have any idea?

You mean the amp itself is making the noise or noise is comming out into the subs? I too would bet a ground issue. Most people have no idea what a loose ground or a ground put over a metal area can cause.

Yeah, it's the amp that's making the noise. Some people that I've talked to said that it's probably just warming up or something but I'll recheck the grounding again. It's grounded to a bolt next to the amp. Thanks.

sounds like an internal amp problem... i would open it up and see if you see anything that is fried inside, what sounds like is happening is there is something wrong with it making it run hard all the time and thats why it is over heating... this is assuming your ground is good. A resistor might be bad.. post back.

I don't know anything about opening up the amp and so forth.... :( Any tips? Also, as far as grounding goes....how do you know check to see if something is grounded right or not!?!

Okay, so today I was messing around with my amp and so forth and I realized that when my music is on, there's nothing coming out of my amp. Dumb question but umm....music is supposed to come out of the amp right? :rolleyes: So then I go and check my subwoofer and I can BARELY hear anything coming out of that. You guys have any idea what's going on? Is my amp broken? How about my sub? :(

Okay, so today I was messing around with my amp and so forth and I realized that when my music is on, there's nothing coming out of my amp. Dumb question but umm....music is supposed to come out of the amp right? :rolleyes: So then I go and check my subwoofer and I can BARELY hear anything coming out of that. You guys have any idea what's going on? Is my amp broken? How about my sub? :(
I'd say the amp finally bit the dust but could be something else too. What kind of amp is this again?

Music isnt supposed to come out of ur amp.. the easiest thing u can do is to take it to an audio shop an let them take a look at it or just buy another one

ponchonutty, the amp is El Capitan Rocky Series and I have a sub woofer. I checked the fuses today and the fuses are fine so I'm kinda lost still. Any thoughts?

Stealth, music isn't supposed to come out of the amp? Hmm....what does the amp do then? Hehe I'm clueless obviously. :oP Yeah, I could take it to the shop but I know they'll automatically say that it's broken and that I'll have to get a new one. So I'm just trying to figure out if it's really broken before I do that. :)

Thanks fellas.

ohh. yes it does come from the amp.. but its not like it has a speaker in it .. i thought thats what u meant

Okay, there's 2 buttons: a red one and a green one. The green one says protection and the red one says power level low input. The red button is on...does that mean anything?

A lot of people that I've spoken with said that they think that the wiring is super bad and that I should try to rewire the power cable. As my friend said, the people who installed it did a shitty job. What do you guys think?

Sorry but what the hell is a EL Capitan???? Who makes this POS? I did a google search and found nothing. If it is one of those crappy cheapo things from places like Jenson, Boss, or Road Authority I'd say that's where the problem is. As far as wiring goes, I can't see it so I can't say anything about it. If it lloks crappy then I am sure it needs redone. Everyone here knows that you should run good quality cable, make sure to run RCA on opposite sides of vehical from power wires, and always get a great ground spot. People do not understand the complications you can have just by ignoring these simple items especially GROUNDS!

LOL I have no idea ponchonutty. When I bought the car, the previous owner had it installed and I just never took it out.

Anyways, this is when I did today. I opened up the amp to look to see if something burnt that I could spot but no luck. Everything looked fine. However, in the process I fell in the car and the ground and the power wires touched which led to the ever-loving flying sparks. I also noticed that the power wire connection to the amp was pretty crappy for I went to the store and bought some new "butts" (whatever they're called) and a new fuse (the sparks contact broke one of the fuse). So I changed everything and when I tried the system, the sub was kickin' louder than it did before. When the base comes on, it works well but if it's just music then the sub isn't too "great." Is that how it's supposed to be? Hehe I still don't know much about this stereo stuff.

It's my understanding an amp filters out all the highs and supplies the sub with all that wonderful bass. So yeah...sounds about right to me.

Oh ok, thanks privatebean.