overheating amp????

hey i have a pioneer MOSFET 760W amp goin into 2 XPLODES and after about 30 minutes of bumping the amp starts to faze in and out with it overheating...this is a brand new amp...anything i can do to keep it from this or is it just a bad amp?...any help would be appreciated....oh and i have a sony Xplode 50x4w head...thanks

Originally posted by hondatool
hey i have a pioneer MOSFET 760W amp goin into 2 XPLODES and after about 30 minutes of bumping the amp starts to faze in and out with it overheating...this is a brand new amp...anything i can do to keep it from this or is it just a bad amp?...any help would be appreciated....oh and i have a sony Xplode 50x4w head...thanks

what is the amp 's minimun ohm rating? and what are the subs voice coil ohm ratings?
if you're trying to running 1ohm load in a 4 ohm stable amp, that could be the problem

do you happen to have DVC subs? u must power both coils, not just one. anyways, this amp is 2ohm stable, so it should handle it ok. maybe how about the gain on your amp? how high is it? is the bass boost on?

i think the gain is all the way up and the boost is not up...i dont think it even has a bass boost on the amp and the boost on the head is off too

I have a son xplod head unit,subs, and amp and my amp does the same exact thing and its brand new :mad: . Im gonna mess with the adjustments and find out what fixes it, when i find out ill let u guys know

No no no... the amp is 2 ohm STEREO stable not 2 ohm MONO stable... if you are running a single pair of wires from your amp and have it bridged, thats MONO... and if you have two 4 ohms subs, you now have a 2 ohm load and thats why your amp is doing that!

for starters Sony car audio SUCKS.

What guage power and ground wires are you using? What is the wire length? What is the voltage at the amp when it is playing, and what is the voltage at the amp when it starts going thermal? Where is the amp grounded?