help with my amp

what you just explained would be for another situation but in this case it wouldnt help him! his fuse and wire size are correct, he said it did fine for 2 day's then boom nothing! so im thinking he either has to low of an ohm load for the amp to handle, or he has a faulty amp.......also im wondering if the electrical cant handle the amp and is dropping to dangerously low level's in which will cause the issue's that have occured to occur

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actually the fuse by the battery was 100, and the fuses in the amp equal 120. If the amp is AT ITS FULL POTENTIAL, the fuse up by the battery would blow because too much current flow. This could have caused the fuses in the amp to bust to SAVE THE AMP and then the fuse on the POWER WIRE to go. Very easily to have been done.

And secondly, A TOO LOW impedance load would not blow ALL the fuses on the amp, or the fuse up near the battery. It would just cause the amp to go into protect mode. Then when he turns off the amp and turns it back on , via his cd player, it would work again and go into protect mode again, IF the amp was that touchy and doesnt give leeway on impedance loads.

I highly doubt that its from a low impedance load considering viper has always been a decent brand for its time.

actually the fuse by the battery was 100, and the fuses in the amp equal 120. If the amp is AT ITS FULL POTENTIAL, the fuse up by the battery would blow because too much current flow. This could have caused the fuses in the amp to bust to SAVE THE AMP and then the fuse on the POWER WIRE to go. Very easily to have been done.
And secondly, A TOO LOW impedance load would not blow ALL the fuses on the amp, or the fuse up near the battery. It would just cause the amp to go into protect mode. Then when he turns off the amp and turns it back on , via his cd player, it would work again and go into protect mode again, IF the amp was that touchy and doesnt give leeway on impedance loads.

I highly doubt that its from a low impedance load considering viper has always been a decent brand for its time.

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actualy if you read the op post it say's 3 30 amp fuses....90 amp's total. anyhow a low impedance can blow the fuses if it indeed is a faulty amp! which i am starting to lean in that direction

oh and by the way the viper amp's are only 2 ohm stable if i remember right

o **** so then why did i get 4 fuses from, my bad. i did read it wrong. but as far as everything else it still doesnt seem like a low impedance load. especailly when he said when he touched the ground wire i believe, he sparked the power wire by the batt and blew the fuse. Sounds like a SHITTY wiring job.

the 1200 was 1 ohm stable

the 2500 was 2 ohm stable

1200 @ 1 ohm http://www.drdetailshop.com/vd1200.1.htm

and the other 2500@ 2 ohm http://www.drdetailshop.com/vd2500.1.htm

this kid still hasnt said any background info on where he got all this equipment from or any background info on it. who installed, where u buy from, etc.

he said his freind touched wires on his own system not his! he said his worked for 2 day's then it happened so it sound's like a faulty amp!

well gent's, i need to get to bed ill help some more tommorow. good night.....oh one last thing tighten the ground as good as possible then replace the fuses and try again! if that dont work let me know

rewire everything again and see if your amp stays on, maybe it's a wire loose in your sub box hittin metal, could be, check it out

Running too low of an impedance load will blow your fuses in some cases. that kept happening to me about 4 years ago when I have one of the Fosgate amps. I kept trying to run it at 1 ohm, and the fuse by the battry kept on blowing.

On another note, if the Viper 1200 has the same board as the Orion 1200D, from what he's saying, that's also what happened to my original 1200D. I was pushing it fine, then all of a sudden, all the fuses blow. I checked my wiring, fuses and ohm load and everything was okay. I hooked it back up, and it blows the fuses again, only this time, the infamous cloud of white smoke appears. Then I was like //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

well i guess all i can say is i never had an amp have all of its fuses BLOW on me because of the impedance. Your going to need to check the ohms on each voicecoil on the sub. EACH + and - and i was ****ed up last night so sorry if i didnt read the thread throughly

well then it might not be the 1200.1 amplifier, check the model number on the amp, wat does it say