amp is really frustrating me

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

heres my problem :

my kicker ZX 750.1 shuts off and and resets then immediately turns back on. i have noticed that this problem doesn't occur at high volumes, it occurs with hard hitting bass notes. so it will do it when the volume ranges from 6-20 (out of 40) my gain is currently set about half, and bass boost at 3/4

here is my setup :

brand new kicker ZX 750.1

1 month old kicker ZX 650.4

2 farad sound quest capacitor

a couple month old kicker solobaric L7 dual 4ohm wired to 2ohms

pioneer door speakers

and a combination of 3 different 4gauge wires ( Monster, Kicker, and Fosgate )

ps. i ran all the same setup before with a ZX550.2 instead of the 750.1. I had the gain and bass boost backed off just a hair, and there was no problem

EDIT: this can occur 2 seconds after turning the amp on, it doesnt require a period of time

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[TaylorFade 10+ year member]

Your amp is trying to tell you someting, bro.

Lose the cap, turn the bas boost off. Get a voltmeter and watch it.

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

i need the cap because i dont have a power distributor

 

[pickup1 5,000+ posts]

Check your ground...amp might need repair.

 

[TaylorFade 10+ year member]

i need the cap because i dont have a power distributor

WTF is a power distributor?

Caps do more harm than good. There are about, oh, I dunno... a million threads on it.

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

a power distributor seperates one power capble into 2 or more power cables.

it is possible that the amp needs repairs, but its fresh outta the factory.

and i will check my ground

 

[LBC]

WTF is a power distributor?
Caps do more harm than good. There are about, oh, I dunno... a million threads on it.

Taylor, I love ya man... but that isn't possible. They neither help nor harm.

 

[TaylorFade 10+ year member]

Taylor, I love ya man... but that isn't possible. They neither help nor harm.

Well, I think the "more harm" thing for these guys is a false sense of security. But I CAN tell you that in testing, my supercaps (2700 farads each) + batts is worse than batts only. That's the extreme though because our batts are busy recharging several banks of (6) of those caps. At the very least, like you said, it's no help at all. Even with (12) 2700 farad supercaps per amp. So, I can't imagine his 2F cap is doing a **** thing. Lol.

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

back when everything played, it stoped my lights from dimming. and thats really all wanted it to do

so no more ideas on my amp?

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

and i just checked my ohms. the L7 is wired to 1.8ohms

 

[gunz4me2 10+ year member]

I always thought of a capacitor as shifting the point of the bottleneck in the electrical chain when used as an energy storage device. Now, they do have one use as I have typed many times before and that is to filter power line noise out of the system.

Begin boring story: I had issues in my 1996 Thunderbird that came from the factory with a HO alternator. The only problem was that HO alternator and the old school amps I was running at the time, 1997 to 1999, picked up the power wire induced noise. Several local shops tried various things, like ground loop isolators, grounding the shield on the RCAs to my Mobile ES HU, along with various other gadgets/tricks to solve my noise issue to no avail. All they did was cost me money and my system just ended up sounding weird and still having the noise. I called a buddy of mine who was in the service in California, he ran my issue by a shop that he had been working with in his spare time, and they told him to tell me to try a cap. Their reasoning was because Ford's alternators were known to bleed out higher than average AC ripple, even when new. Well, the cap solved my noise problem and that is about the only time I ever found a cap useful.

 

[SMFJ 10+ year member]

back when everything played, it stoped my lights from dimming. and thats really all wanted it to doso no more ideas on my amp?

Grab voltage meter. Check your batt voltage at the amp no capacitor. Check your RCA voltage and make sure they are grounding out. Lastly check your remote connection.

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

and i appolagize. it is when the volume gets high

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

scratch that. i have no clue whats trigering it anymore.

how do i meter the rcas?

 

[Acer9876 10+ year member]

the power shows 12.7

and ground reads .1ohm

and what do i check about the remote? it working, because both amps do turn on, and will stay on as long as im not playing loud/ heavy bass music