Non- Working Amp

[dylanr91]

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.

[doberman_52]

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]

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]

Go get the amp tested. My guess would be a bad amp.