amp started smoking???

[302yota 10+ year member]

after hooking up a hifonics brutus 1608, and turning the volume up very low, smoke started pouring out of the amp...i felt the top plate of the amp and it was cool, the speaker is wired at 1ohm (which the amp is stable at)...what could the problem be????

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[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Of course the top plate was cool, the FET's were too busy catching on fire to actually power the unit up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

i quit smoking quite a fews years ago. it was a bad habit.

 

[Vestax 10+ year member]

i quit smoking quite a fews years ago. it was a bad habit.

I would say 90% of the time, it's influenced by others. Maybe too many smoking amps near it will cause it to smoke? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

a bug might of crawled in it to stay warm...and when you turned it on...its body could've crossed circuits and made it fry...

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

Your amp needs the patch or some nicotine gum. Or a rebuild from DB-r. Your call really

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Your amp needs the patch or some nicotine gum. Or a rebuild from DB-r. Your call really

I dunno man, its a Brutus, its probably not worth the shipping to chris.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Your amp needs the patch or some nicotine gum. Or a rebuild from DB-r. Your call really

the patch is the cheapest fix //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

well it's too late now, because he hooked the amp back up and fire actually started coming out of the vents...so thanks for the help....but any other suggestions as to why it might have started smoking (the positive and ground were in the right terminals btw)

 

[endofdays89 5,000+ posts]

a bug might of crawled in it to stay warm...and when you turned it on...its body could've crossed circuits and made it fry...

this would be my guess

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

uninstall it, open it up, and take some pics...

 

[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

it's a hifonics.. that's why it caught on fire. duh //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

it's a hifonics.. that's why it caught on fire. duh //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

FL. no wonder.

 

[Xprime4 10+ year member]

hey my hifonics never catch on fire ... but yeah he's got to quit smokin before he gets a cancer

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

if we take it apart the warranty will be void....btw this is the second amp that this has happened to him..the first was a power acoustik bamf 2200wt i think