Amps and fuses keep blowing

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

Ok so 2 weeks ago my herc blew now my speaker amp keeps blowing fusing. I dont see any grounding issues what can the problem be here?

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[Bake 10+ year member]

Does it blow fuses as soon as you power it up or is it blowing them after cranking the volume for a while?

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

It blows after approx 10 seconds of being on

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

if the grounds "look" good, why not be sure they "are" good? try a different spot. it's not the amp if this happened with another amp. check your grounds. also is the fuse big enough?

 

[jblayz1 10+ year member]

try a bigger fuse

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

try a bigger fuse

Go kill yourself.

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

try a bigger fuse

Yea not doing that fuse = protection for amp

It is the correct size fuze.

i am gonna take out the power wire and rerun it but if that was grounding somewhere wouldn't i be having differnt electrical problems.

Voltage seems to stay over 13.3

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

not power wire. check you ground location. maybe move your ground since you've had this problem before.

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

Ill try moving the ground. What do you mean ground isolation tho?

Ive had this ground for a year I dont understand how it would just start causing problems, and how a bad ground would cause the fuse on the amp to blow.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

who said ground isolation??

if the ground is bad, it could cause the circuit to short causing a surge therefore blowing the fuse.

 

[frzninvt 10+ year member]

Chances are this amp was damaged when the other amp went and it is just now reached the non-working point. Something is probably wrong internally when the event that ocurred the first time that took out the other amp.

 

[10W3dodge96 10+ year member]

You got a short in the power wire

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

As was said, you probably have issues with the amp. Disconnect all speaker leads and power it up. If it still blows the fuse the amp is most likely dead.

 

[NewToTheGrounds 10+ year member]

he knows how to fix it

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there u go