Would my amp be too small, my wires, or some other problem if everytime I turn my radio to a certain volume it sends my amp into protection mode until I turn it down again. I have a 2400 watt kicker amp with 2 1200 watt rms massive 12" subs the power and ground wires are 4ga and the speaker wires are 10ga. Also if the box is too small would it do It too?
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Hi Welcome to the forum.guidrozb1996 wrote:Would my amp be too small, my wires, or some other problem if everytime I turn my radio to a certain volume it sends my amp into protection mode until I turn it down again. I have a 2400 watt kicker amp with 2 1200 watt rms massive 12" subs the power and ground wires are 4ga and the speaker wires are 10ga. Also if the box is too small would it do It too?
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Let's see if we can figure out the issue. Could you let us know the model number of the amp, and also the subs you have?
Also how do you have them wired?
Where is your gain setting on the amp set too?
Last question, where is your amp grounded?
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It's not a sub/amp issue it's been there before I got the subs so its deffinately a radio issueChris from Washington wrote:Hi Welcome to the forum.
Let's see if we can figure out the issue. Could you let us know the model number of the amp, and also the subs you have?
Also how do you have them wired?
Where is your gain setting on the amp set too?
Last question, where is your amp grounded?
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I'm sorry wrong post. Give me a second to find itguidrozb1996 wrote:It's not a sub/amp issue it's been there before I got the subs so its deffinately a radio issue
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Amp is a kicker c1200.1 and I couldnt find the sub model from google I'm at work right now and the subs are in my suv at the office. Wires are ran from the battery to the amp ground is to a bolt under my seat with metal on both sides and the remote is ran from my deck to the amp along with my rca cables power wire is ran through my firewall on the drivers side and the rca abd remote wires ran through my passenger sideguidrozb1996 wrote:I'm sorry wrong post. Give me a second to find it
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Gain is set to half wayishguidrozb1996 wrote:It's not a sub/amp issue it's been there before I got the subs so its deffinately a radio issue
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OK, so I would try and find out the model of the subs. Need to know what the impedance of the subs are.guidrozb1996 wrote:Amp is a kicker c1200.1 and I couldnt find the sub model from google I'm at work right now and the subs are in my suv at the office. Wires are ran from the battery to the amp ground is to a bolt under my seat with metal on both sides and the remote is ran from my deck to the amp along with my rca cables power wire is ran through my firewall on the drivers side and the rca abd remote wires ran through my passenger side
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I want to make sure you don't have them wired in a way, that would cause issues with the amp. The amp is able to go down to a 2 ohm load.
Once we find out everything is OK with the wiring of the subs, I would next try turning down the gain.
But first let's figure out the subs and how they are wired.
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That Kicker amp is only stable to 20hms mono. You are running two 12" Massive subs. As Chris stated, you might want to check the impedance rating of your subs. If you have them wired to give that amp a 1ohm load or lower, this is your problem. Any other configuration on the subs would be fine.
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That is where my knowledge stops I just know how to run the wires and set the amp idk about ohms and load and stuff
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Model for the subs are cw 12 stg2 and amp is kicker c 1200.1
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