Amp shutting off...

[Neptune 10+ year member]

Hey i have a quick question, I am running two amps, one amp for just my subs and a 4 channel amp just for my components. When I first got the amp and installed it, it worked perfectly fine, then i ran a new 0 gauge power wire and just cleaned up the wires a little bit. But, my amp for the components was working fine for the first two weeks after i got the new power wire, now, I turn on my radio, and you know everything works fine, the amps turn on and it sounds perfect, but my component amp will just shut off. It will turn off whenever it feels like it. It doesn't even last like 5 minutes now and it just shuts off, and the only thing I get is bass from my sub amp (since my speakers are ran to my 4 channel amp, the one that keeps turning off), so I was just wondering, what do you guys think the problem is? Should I check my remote? Or ground, or what do you think? Any help would be appreciated...

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[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

unless the remote is loose it wouldn't be it....

does the amp get hot?

you are going to have to give beeter details to help people diagnose the problem...

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

make sure all you wires are getting good connections and are tight. get back to us after that, and does it get hot?

 

[pdtran 10+ year member]

does it turn back on after u restart the car or head unit? this happened to me for my sub amp...after i changed the ground to the battery then it stopped.

 

[Neptune 10+ year member]

well i live in florida and it is usually always hot here, and sometimes it does get hot but it never overheated. i have a main ground that goes to a distribution block, then off the block goes two other grounds straight to the amp? is that alright? yeah the amp will just shut off (doesn't go into protect mode, it just shuts off) and then maybe like two minutes later after I turn off my head unit, and turn it back on, the amp will turn back on and play fine, then it will go off again. thanks for you help I'll check my connections.

 

[dtp 10+ year member]

make use that the power wire and ground wire dont touch

some amps if touch ones it cuts off untill deck restarts

remote wire if lose will cause this problem also

did u change yor rca jacks to yor mids amp?????

 

[Neptune 10+ year member]

yeah ill have to look to see if the wires are touching, hopefully not. And I have the rca's coming from my dvd reciever, to the main sub amp, then from there I have a pair of rca's from the line out of that amp that goes to the mid amp.