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doughboy
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Okay today IM just driving around and I hear a pop and my subs turn off. I park open my trunk and both fuses on my amp are popped "2 40amps" So I get looking around and check every ground every power wire. Clean all the connection and it still pops the fuses. Heres what it does step by step. Turn car on, turn radio on, light on the amp turns red, starts to go green and pop. Please give fix it tips or possible problems because I have a big feeling that the ****ers that I bought this from wont represent thier warranty.

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Well, the problem could be the amp or the subs. To figure out which one it is you might want to try to unhook the subs and see if the amp does the same thing. If it does the same thing that it has been doing then it is the amp....if it doesn't your subs are probably shorted out somehow. If it is the subs check the tinsel leads, make sure the wires didn't fall out...things like that.

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Disconnect the load from the amp, and disconnect the driving signal.

Do they still blow?

Then it is more than likely an internal ground.

(Off the wall, could something have exacerbated turn on pop to cause it to draw many amps?)

If it does not blow then, turn it off, reconnect driving signal but not the load, turn on again. Does it blow? Then it's something else.

If it doesn't, attach speakers.. Does it blow? If it does, get a different set of speakers, hook them up. Does it blow?

If it doesn't, it's your speakers.

Isolate the problem if you can.

ShadowStar

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