Amp Won't Turn On?

[Phase One 10+ year member]

I've had this amp for about 4 years now, and this is my first time having any kind of problems. Here's the story.

Driving home from work today, I was listening to my music at a normal level. Everything was fine. I switched to a different song and noticed no bass. So when I got home, I looked and my amp is off. No power light, no protection light. Weird. So, I turn my car off, and back on again and noticed the protection light comes on for like 3 seconds and it fades away. (I always thought they stay on constantly.) Anyway, I checked my ground, my power, everything looks fine. I used a jumper from my 12v on amp to remote and the protection light stays on constantly. I was told it should power on once I do that.

So what other options do I have besides getting my amp looked at in a shop and/or find someone who has a spare amp to test it.

Does it sound like this amp finally died? It's a JBL GTO1201.1

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[mike49504 10+ year member]

DO you have a multimeter? Also what kind of fuse is under the hood inline with the power wire glass fuse waffer fuse, blade fuse?

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

Yeah I have a DMM. The fuse is what came with the amp kit, looks like this

I checked all the fuses and none are blown.

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

Update. I went and tried the jumper wire again, this time if I leave the wire on, the blue power light comes on, but the protection light also stays on and no sound through the subwoofers. Is this a step in the positive direction or does this not mean anything?

 

[mike49504 10+ year member]

Disconnect the rca's from the amp and disconnect the sub/subs from the amp leave only power ground and remote hooked up. Turn the cd player on and set your multimeter to dc voltage Place black probe on the amps ground terminal and red probe on the positive terminal of the amp what voltage do you get?? Next place black probe on ground terminal of the amp and red probe on remote terminal of the amp whats that voltage??