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amp heating and going into thermal protect, need options
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<blockquote data-quote="rick1024" data-source="post: 7839315" data-attributes="member: 643036"><p>i have a soundstream rubicon 1600.1 in my mitsu evo. its mounted on the side of my sub box in the trunk. i have been having issues with poor sound levels and the amp either not turning on at all or turning on for about 20 minutes, getting hot and shutting off on its own. the amp is fed directly from the battery using a 0/1 gauge cable from stinger. the cars trunk has no ventilation. once its hot in there it takes a long time to cool off. the amp is bridged down to 2ohms.</p><p></p><p>i am looking at two options.</p><p></p><p>1. move the amp into the car and under the seat. there is no way to get cool air from the cars cabin into the trunk, the seats do not fold down. i figure since its always cooler inside the car that the amp would do better mounted under the seat. there seems to be plenty of room for it. this option im thinking would probably work, but......</p><p></p><p>2. getting a cap. now before anyone says anything, i myself am an anti-cap advocate and am constantly telling people to not waste their money. the issue is that my cars battery is super tiny. i have a mini battery instead of the regular battery, it was the only way to get the intercooler piping i wanted to fit. for the most part it works fine, i notice no dimming when bass hits, and my voltage never drops below 13.6 with headlights, foglights, a/c, stereo and sub on. my thinking is the amp is having to really pull for voltage from the small battery, and having the cap would make up for that.</p><p></p><p>here is a link of the mini-battery for reference</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.extremeturbosystems.com/ETS-Mitsubishi-Evo-8-and-Evolution-9-Battery-Kit.html" target="_blank">ETS Mitsubishi Evo 8 and Evolution 9 Battery Kit</a></p><p></p><p>as well as an actual pic of the battery installed in my evo:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8301/7776513046_ab593fdd5b_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>im leaning towards installing the amp under the seat, but here in dfw the heat is killer, so i sweat like no tomorrow and get exhausted from working on the car. if i am going to do it i want to make sure its worth doing. any opinions will be appreciated</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rick1024, post: 7839315, member: 643036"] i have a soundstream rubicon 1600.1 in my mitsu evo. its mounted on the side of my sub box in the trunk. i have been having issues with poor sound levels and the amp either not turning on at all or turning on for about 20 minutes, getting hot and shutting off on its own. the amp is fed directly from the battery using a 0/1 gauge cable from stinger. the cars trunk has no ventilation. once its hot in there it takes a long time to cool off. the amp is bridged down to 2ohms. i am looking at two options. 1. move the amp into the car and under the seat. there is no way to get cool air from the cars cabin into the trunk, the seats do not fold down. i figure since its always cooler inside the car that the amp would do better mounted under the seat. there seems to be plenty of room for it. this option im thinking would probably work, but...... 2. getting a cap. now before anyone says anything, i myself am an anti-cap advocate and am constantly telling people to not waste their money. the issue is that my cars battery is super tiny. i have a mini battery instead of the regular battery, it was the only way to get the intercooler piping i wanted to fit. for the most part it works fine, i notice no dimming when bass hits, and my voltage never drops below 13.6 with headlights, foglights, a/c, stereo and sub on. my thinking is the amp is having to really pull for voltage from the small battery, and having the cap would make up for that. here is a link of the mini-battery for reference [URL="http://www.extremeturbosystems.com/ETS-Mitsubishi-Evo-8-and-Evolution-9-Battery-Kit.html"]ETS Mitsubishi Evo 8 and Evolution 9 Battery Kit[/URL] as well as an actual pic of the battery installed in my evo: [IMG]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8301/7776513046_ab593fdd5b_z.jpg[/IMG] im leaning towards installing the amp under the seat, but here in dfw the heat is killer, so i sweat like no tomorrow and get exhausted from working on the car. if i am going to do it i want to make sure its worth doing. any opinions will be appreciated [/QUOTE]
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