Amp not working Advice

[lliamiskool]

Hi all, I am still fairly new to car audio, so I figured I'd come to the experts. I have a boss head unit and a sound ordanence 8" powered sub that work great. I recently picked up a mtx 12" sub that is 24 years old, and a bazooka ela500.1. I wired it the same as my powered subwoofer, and used regular old speaker wire to connect the sub to the amp. I have no idea how to tune it so I left "level" at min, "x-over" at 40 hz which is the lowest, and "bass boost" at 0. When I turn on my radio, the red power light turns on briefly then shuts off. Any ideas? Could the way I have it tuned be doing this? Or is speaker wire too thin? Any advice would be much appreciated.

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[SbassLaser]

The amp should still turn on regardless of your settings. Those settings will probably cause almost no power to come from the amp, but thats a discussion for when the amp will actually stay on, lol. Is the amp also 24 year old? It could just be damaged. Double check all of your connections. Then I would use a multimeter to check the voltage at the amp and measure the resistance from the ground terminal to the vehicle body.