New amp gets hot when powered up?

One_crazy_dude

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Hey all. Got an Orion xtr 2500.1 today. I removed a cab 1600.1 in working order just to add more power to my hdc 3.115 sub that is wired down to 1 ohm.

So I swap out power ground and remote wire and start the car. I do this to make sure it powers on. And power on it did. But I notices it was getting warm on the top half of the amp and in a minute or so it was hot but the bottom half is still cool. Mind you no rca's or speaker wires are hooked up yet so it's not loaded at all.

So I wait a good 10 minutes and it's hot but doesn't go into protect or anything so in plug in the 8 gauge speaker wires and rca's and music plays and plays loud but it gets hot. I played music for about a 1/2 hour and it has not gone into protect or anything.

I've had quite a few amps in my time and never had them get hot while just powered on and no signal going to it. Should I send it back? What would you do?

 
Hey all. Got an Orion xtr 2500.1 today. I removed a cab 1600.1 in working order just to add more power to my hdc 3.115 sub that is wired down to 1 ohm.
So I swap out power ground and remote wire and start the car. I do this to make sure it powers on. And power on it did. But I notices it was getting warm on the top half of the amp and in a minute or so it was hot but the bottom half is still cool. Mind you no rca's or speaker wires are hooked up yet so it's not loaded at all.

So I wait a good 10 minutes and it's hot but doesn't go into protect or anything so in plug in the 8 gauge speaker wires and rca's and music plays and plays loud but it gets hot. I played music for about a 1/2 hour and it has not gone into protect or anything.

I've had quite a few amps in my time and never had them get hot while just powered on and no signal going to it. Should I send it back? What would you do?
You use to could cook a steak on the old school Orion Reds back in the day but like a timex they kept on ticking

 
Hey all. Got an Orion xtr 2500.1 today. I removed a cab 1600.1 in working order just to add more power to my hdc 3.115 sub that is wired down to 1 ohm.
So I swap out power ground and remote wire and start the car. I do this to make sure it powers on. And power on it did. But I notices it was getting warm on the top half of the amp and in a minute or so it was hot but the bottom half is still cool. Mind you no rca's or speaker wires are hooked up yet so it's not loaded at all.

So I wait a good 10 minutes and it's hot but doesn't go into protect or anything so in plug in the 8 gauge speaker wires and rca's and music plays and plays loud but it gets hot. I played music for about a 1/2 hour and it has not gone into protect or anything.

I've had quite a few amps in my time and never had them get hot while just powered on and no signal going to it. Should I send it back? What would you do?
yeah but what size wire u have? hope 0ga.. it's tight.. but yeah some stuff just heats up fast man..

 
Power wire is 1/0 guage. I also have 3 100 ah agm batteries, 2 in back 1 in front. I understand amps get hot but this one gets hot while rca's and speaker wires are disconnected.
if im not mistaken, the MOSFETs are usually on the side of the PCB boards and would heat up exactly where youre talking about. I dont like the sound of this and wouldnt be too hesitant to return it. Its probably a repaired amp with either a poor repair job or wrong transistors installed during said repair. If its gettin pretty hot with no audio source nor speakers connected to it, thats a red flag to me. My SQ2200.1 stays very cool even when im beating on it fwiw

 
if im not mistaken, the MOSFETs are usually on the side of the PCB boards and would heat up exactly where youre talking about. I dont like the sound of this and wouldnt be too hesitant to return it. Its probably a repaired amp with either a poor repair job or wrong transistors installed during said repair. If its gettin pretty hot with no audio source nor speakers connected to it, thats a red flag to me. My SQ2200.1 stays very cool even when im beating on it fwiw
I agree. It is a new amp as far as I know of so I called amazon and it's going back. I just don't feel safe with this thing heating up for no reason. Thanks.

 
I agree. It is a new amp as far as I know of so I called amazon and it's going back. I just don't feel safe with this thing heating up for no reason. Thanks.
Was the amp new, refurb, or b stock, open box item when you bought it?

 
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