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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 04:18 AM
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ok i was driving today and all of sudden my amp turned off, so i pulled over and check everything wires, battery,amp now the amp was not hot at all because it was at night and it had been about an hour and a half when i had it on last, the stereo (headunit) and other speakers would stay on but the amp with the subs will turn off then about 15 mins later it turned back on for about 3 mins then turned back off, oh and it has this red light on that says protected on the amp. what is going on is it getting to hot are what? please help thanks
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 11:22 AM
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what brand model # is the amp? What exactly do you have running to it what type of speakers or subs?
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 04:28 PM
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your amp is overheating.
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 06:22 PM
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your running to much power to your subs and its causing your amp to shut off, you need to lower down the setting on the amp, or upgrade your setup.
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 06:24 PM
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Flea market amp?
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 11:07 PM
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yeah i think it was to much power because i got the amp to come back on but now the subs sound like ****, i just got them too now i guess i need to get more subs
they were 2 12's audiobahn and the amp was an audiobahn also
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Old Aug 10, 2005 | 09:15 PM
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Check you ground a power and so forth. If they are ran near any points where you would have had to screw a panel back in, you may have screwed into a wire and that would cause a short or intermittant problem.
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Old Aug 10, 2005 | 09:41 PM
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i bet you have the subs wired wrong so the resistance is wayy low, too low fo the amp.
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I have to agree with camaro... post what subs and amp you have.
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thanks but i found out that the fuse was out but now my speakers inside the car are out
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