help with sub amp!!!!

[OtiS13]

hookin up my subs ran into a problem with the test. hooked up all the wires and the amp comes on but it kicks itself into protect!! dont know what the prob is?

[Banzai]

hookin up my subs ran into a problem with the test. hooked up all the wires and the amp comes on but it kicks itself into protect!! dont know what the prob is?

check ALL wires

[Cash]

Like Mike said, check all wires, especially grounds. Also make sure none of the wires are exposed anywhere. I had a similar problem a few years back. When I had run the power from the battery to my trunk, I ran it under the car and one of the zip ties broke and it had fallen down close to the axle. After driving like that for a while, the axle burned through the rubber and shorted everything out.

[Banzai]

Like Mike said, check all wires, especially grounds. Also make sure none of the wires are exposed anywhere. I had a similar problem a few years back. When I had run the power from the battery to my trunk, I ran it under the car and one of the zip ties broke and it had fallen down close to the axle. After driving like that for a while, the axle burned through the rubber and shorted everything out.

thats no good..! lol

mine is ran under my carpet in the wrx. mine wouldnt work either so i got a new battery terminal thing and hooked it up, wired up the remote wire good to the headunit, and everything worked

[Zippy69]

Run the wires, inside the car.
There a few things that will cause an amp to go into protect mode.
Shorted speaker leads or a bad main ground are the two biggest culprits.
Undo the speaker leads from the amp and then power it up and see what happens. Make sure the ground of the amp has a really good connection. The ground is actually the most important wire, as DC flows from Negative to Positive. If a strand of wire from a speaker lead is touching the power wire, that would cause it too.

[zcrew]

GROUND

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[dhumps]

its your ground wire man any good amp will be able to sense a bad ground and not let power through.

[Beez_S13]

Run the wires, inside the car.
There a few things that will cause an amp to go into protect mode.
Shorted speaker leads or a bad main ground are the two biggest culprits.
Undo the speaker leads from the amp and then power it up and see what happens. Make sure the ground of the amp has a really good connection. The ground is actually the most important wire, as DC flows from Negative to Positive. If a strand of wire from a speaker lead is touching the power wire, that would cause it too.

the ground and the hot wire are equally important, you cant have one without the other and maintain power. but yeah, its probably a shorted wire. check fuses and any place that it might be exposed to other wire

[Zippy69]

the ground and the hot wire are equally important, you cant have one without the other and maintain power. but yeah, its probably a shorted wire. check fuses and any place that it might be exposed to other wire
The ground will make more of a difference, as the current flows from Negative to Positive. You an get by with a smaller power wire than you can a ground.

[BigJack]

my amp did that when the speaker wire contacts would touch each other on the back of the amp, make sure they dont and if they do some electrical tape to separate them will work

[OtiS13]

found the problem, wasnt teh ground, speaker wires to the subs were stripped too far and taped up (by teh guy helping me) fixed it, and retaped and now everything works perfect

[Zippy69]

Good deal mang. Now joo be bumpin'?

[dlggeneral]

need to check the ground !!!

[J Squared]

found the problem, wasnt teh ground, speaker wires to the subs were stripped too far and taped up (by teh guy helping me) fixed it, and retaped and now everything works perfect

:goodjob:

[Zippy69]

Way to get those post counts up guys! Post in a thread where the problem is already solved. Yay for post whoring!!! Whooo hooo!

[J Squared]

Umm, I was actually posting to let the dude above me know the problem was solved. Thanks for caring oh so much though, and have a wonderful day.

[Zippy69]

Now you know why you have a red dot.

[J Squared]

Its not herpes is it?? OH GAWD NO!!!!!

[whiteboyatl404]

lol

[Blake]

check the ground and fuses
you may not have had it grounded good and popped a fuse
so check the ground and fuses

[J Squared]

*sigh...


See?

[JTA021]

lol, for real

[1luvsilvias]

hookin up my subs ran into a problem with the test. hooked up all the wires and the amp comes on but it kicks itself into protect!! dont know what the prob is?

check the fuses. that usually was the case with my audiobahn amp