HELP! ASAP! Potential FIRE!!

Hello. I just got my system installed today. While driving (and listening to the stero with base) I smelled a burning smell. I stoped the car, popped the trunk and the smell was really strong there (where my box and amp is). Am i frying my amp or is it something else? I have a pyramid 1600 watt amp pusing two 600 watt 10 inch subs. I am using my factory head unit with a line out put converter in the trunk spliced into my rear speakers. Is the line output converter hooked up wrong? Maybe the positive and negative is mis matched. Please help before a fire starts somewhere. Thanks

By the way I have a 98 chevy malibu. he hooked the negative wire on the loc to the brown rear speaker wire, positive to yellow, negative to dark blue, positive to light blue. Is this correct?

I just turned my car on and was checking for smoke and here the amp was smoking. Now it wont turn on so its fried...... I think I found out why. I have (had) a two channel bridgeable amp, pushing to subs, and here the guy who installed it had it set not on stero but on bridge..... Any one else think thats why it fried?

Wrong impendance possibly, but the fuses should have blown in either the power wire or the amp first. But pyramid is cheap low quality stuff and i done even know what subs you have.

I have a pyramid

That's most likely why it fried

Sorry I am new to all this. Whats independance? ANd yes it blew my amps fuses. Thanks

That's most likely why it fried
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impedience is the resistnece.

Impedance is the AC resistance of the speaker. The lower the number, the harder the amp works.

i thought it was DC resistance :confused:

the voice coil in the speaker does have a DC resistance ...... it's a long, thin wire, but music is NOT DC. Resistance in AC is called impedance because there is an inductive and capacitive reactance as well. The only work done by a speaker (moving air) is accomplished thru the reactance - and since a coil of wire is mostly inductive, the inductive reactance.

Thanks for all the replies, but this is all spanish to me..... SO no one thinks that how it was set on bridged instead of stereo when I had two subs hooked up on a two channel amp fried it? Should I buy another amp, or will that one fry also?

Thanks for all the replies, but this is all spanish to me..... SO no one thinks that how it was set on bridged instead of stereo when I had two subs hooked up on a two channel amp fried it?

You could wire up as many speakers to it as you wanted without issue, as long as you made sure the final impedance wasn't lower than the minimum impedance the amp could support.

You could wire up as many speakers to it as you wanted without issue, as long as you made sure the final impedance wasn't lower than the minimum impedance the amp could support.

So your saying my 1600 watt amp was to powerful for my 2 10 inch subs?

So your saying my 1600 watt amp was to powerful for my 2 10 inch subs?

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.

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?

no

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.