Okay I've started to rip apart my Hifonics Brutus 1500D. The circuit board looks fine no sigs of being charred and everything. There is an assload of resistors on this thing and they all look FINE. Tested a few and they are working properly by the color stripes per resistor.
I was talking to a guy at work and he said simply their possibly could be a short from the output of the speaker terminals to the input of the circuit board and need a little sodder and fixed.. He also said the MOSFET could be bad, but I looked at it and it looks fine. Everything looks fine in order. It also could be the power and ground terminals. I haven't touched that yet, but the amp turns on.
Here is why I am ripping this amp apart. The amp turns on and instantly goes into protect. It was running off one sub coil (2ohm) for the longest time without me knowing. I already checked the sub with a Fluke 87, the sub checks out fine ~ 2ohms per coil. I have tried the amp at 4ohms and 1ohm and it does the same thing. Or it will stay on untill a heavy bass note kicks. I don't have the money at the moment to buy a new amp or I would, I'd rather fix this one. Has anyone fixed the protect error on this amp?
I tried a Punch 801s at 4 ohms and the sub kicked on and played fine, so most likely its the amp. Its a 15" L7 dual 2 ohm.
So... who else has fixed a amp?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
