I think it's fried....
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:35 pm
The amp: Cerwin-Vega XL300.1
The Sub: Alpine Type S Dual 4 ohm 12"
Ok, so I'm riding down the road on Sunday and I smell something burning...then my amp shuts off...When I get home I keep my car running and look at the amp in the back, it is HOT on the edges, but not the center, and a little bit of smoke is coming out... And it's in protect. I turn it off, and come back a lil later after it is cooled off, and start the car again, amp kicks on, sub kicks on, all is great.
This morning, on my way to work, music turned up I smell something bad, so I turn off my CD player to stop pushing the amp...Smoke starts rolling out of my back seat...I pull over, pop the trunk, check the amp, it's in protect, and it's blowing out LOTS of smoke, but still, the center's not hoth, the sides are. I take the power wire out to stop running power through it. Later on in the day I come out, power on the amp, it's out of protect, but not giving any power to the speaker wires...
I don't know how I fried it, the amp is 2 ohm stable, it's mono, but has 2 channels (one for each Voice Coil) It says in the manual, no load lower than 4 ohms per channel, I have each voice coil hooked up to on channel, each voice coil=4 ohms, so I'm wired up correctly.
The only change I made Saturday to the wiring and amp was that I upgraded from 8 ga. to 4 ga. wiring (some was in a car my dad bought so I got it free) and I pulled all the wires through the firewall to hide them instead of through the fender and into the door jam. I also wired up a small Jensen amp to my 6x9's in the back.
If you have any idea what went wrong, please let me know...I am going to try to take the amp somewhere to have it repaired this weekend...thanks in advance guys...
The Sub: Alpine Type S Dual 4 ohm 12"
Ok, so I'm riding down the road on Sunday and I smell something burning...then my amp shuts off...When I get home I keep my car running and look at the amp in the back, it is HOT on the edges, but not the center, and a little bit of smoke is coming out... And it's in protect. I turn it off, and come back a lil later after it is cooled off, and start the car again, amp kicks on, sub kicks on, all is great.
This morning, on my way to work, music turned up I smell something bad, so I turn off my CD player to stop pushing the amp...Smoke starts rolling out of my back seat...I pull over, pop the trunk, check the amp, it's in protect, and it's blowing out LOTS of smoke, but still, the center's not hoth, the sides are. I take the power wire out to stop running power through it. Later on in the day I come out, power on the amp, it's out of protect, but not giving any power to the speaker wires...
I don't know how I fried it, the amp is 2 ohm stable, it's mono, but has 2 channels (one for each Voice Coil) It says in the manual, no load lower than 4 ohms per channel, I have each voice coil hooked up to on channel, each voice coil=4 ohms, so I'm wired up correctly.
The only change I made Saturday to the wiring and amp was that I upgraded from 8 ga. to 4 ga. wiring (some was in a car my dad bought so I got it free) and I pulled all the wires through the firewall to hide them instead of through the fender and into the door jam. I also wired up a small Jensen amp to my 6x9's in the back.
If you have any idea what went wrong, please let me know...I am going to try to take the amp somewhere to have it repaired this weekend...thanks in advance guys...
