Non- Working Amp
dylanr91
03-29-2008, 02:57 AM
I have this new 1100w amp and have had it running for a few weeks.
Now recently, the green power light on it will not illuminate and the subs have no power. All connections seemed to be good except for 1 problem.
My ground for some reason is actually giving out power! (I have 2 spinning sub grills and they can run off the ground!) then i went to hook it back to my grounding spot and it sparked big time and blew my amp fuse. I then went to replace the fuse and it sparked big time trying to insert it.
So i took off my spinning grills from the 12v remote wire (where the packaging said to run it from) and now the fuse can be inserted w/o sparking and blowing. My wires are connected correct to my amp and i checked both power and remote terminals for power (my ground also constantly has power running from it still) but i know that a ground shouldn't be giving out power. Is my amp toast? and is that why the power light's off? (or is something else wrong?)
Thanks.
Now recently, the green power light on it will not illuminate and the subs have no power. All connections seemed to be good except for 1 problem.
My ground for some reason is actually giving out power! (I have 2 spinning sub grills and they can run off the ground!) then i went to hook it back to my grounding spot and it sparked big time and blew my amp fuse. I then went to replace the fuse and it sparked big time trying to insert it.
So i took off my spinning grills from the 12v remote wire (where the packaging said to run it from) and now the fuse can be inserted w/o sparking and blowing. My wires are connected correct to my amp and i checked both power and remote terminals for power (my ground also constantly has power running from it still) but i know that a ground shouldn't be giving out power. Is my amp toast? and is that why the power light's off? (or is something else wrong?)
Thanks.
doberman_52
03-29-2008, 03:20 AM
Did you unplug anything before it quit working? I remember a while back when I put an amp from another car into mine, I wasnt paying much attention and hooked up the ground and the positive backwards and resulted in the same problem. kept sparking and blowing fuses before i realized they were backwards. you could try hooking up just the positive, ground and remote and see if that works. Maybe moving the ground to a different anchor point. I have seen a friends amp fry in a similar way.
dylanr91
03-29-2008, 02:25 PM
No, i seem to have everything hooked up correctly. My amp was working fine before on the same ground, so i have no clue on what's happened.
doberman_52
04-02-2008, 01:13 PM
Go get the amp tested. My guess would be a bad amp.
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