amp wont produce sound

[302yota 10+ year member]

i was going down the road to day with my system going, and the amp just shut down, almost like it would do if it overheated, but like anyother time i would turn the radio off and the amp would reset itself...but now the green light is on but no sound is coming out of my subs...do u think i blew my amp?

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[rollerdj 10+ year member]

well, what kinda amp / sub are u running. whats the ohm load your putting to it?

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

im runnin a 1250 watt power acoustik 2 channel amp...my subs r 2 12in kicker comp 4ohms...i'm pretty sure i have them bridged down to 2ohms tho...besides i've been listening to my system a lot, for a while and i just now had this happen

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

any idea?

 

[Kevinn 10+ year member]

Lol did your RCA's come off?

 

[skydeaner 10+ year member]

power acoustik = questionable reliablility imo

Who knows maybe their cheap *** parts were right on the edge of blowing the whole time.

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

this is the first time that i've ever had or heard of a power acoustik messin up, but i'm pretty sure my rca's didnt come off, but when i did pull them out, it pulled the chrome pieces off of the amp so i just pushed them back on, is there another way that i could hook up my rca's to test them out

 

[97gmcsierra 10+ year member]

Are you sure it is the amp? It could be something to do with the subs.

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

it might be, that's why i'm askin yall

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

i really think its the amp, cuz i just looked at the subs and they seemed fine, but whenever i ran one of the speaker wires over the terminals on the amp, the made like a fuzzy sound, but that was it, but i guess it still could be the subs

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

this is the first time that i've ever had or heard of a power acoustik messin up, but i'm pretty sure my rca's didnt come off, but when i did pull them out, it pulled the chrome pieces off of the amp so i just pushed them back on, is there another way that i could hook up my rca's to test them out

bye bye signal

 

[302yota 10+ year member]

so u think its definitely broke now?

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

bye bye signal

x2. those chrome pieces are the + signal to the rcas.

think of rcas as speaker wire, just carrying a very very low wattage signal. the outside round part is the + and the inside pole is -

when the chrome piece came off the amp, its like a terminal breaking off the sub. no signal gets to the desired point

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

or if you ran it at 2 ohms bridged, which i doubt it is designed to run at, you could have fried some fets inside..

crack her open and take a few pics

 

[kidwolf909 10+ year member]

x2. those chrome pieces are the + signal to the rcas.
think of rcas as speaker wire, just carrying a very very low wattage signal. the outside round part is the + and the inside pole is -

when the chrome piece came off the amp, its like a terminal breaking off the sub. no signal gets to the desired point

Ouch...time to open it up and see if you can repair it :-\