Amps too hot?

[Mike yayo 10+ year member]

When i play my system for like 5-10 minutes at volumes around 45, my car starts to smell like burning vinyl or something and my amps are hot, is this my amps overheating, anyone think getting some fans built on top of box (my amps are mounted on top of my box with trim panel only showing face) to cool them off is worth it or does that not help?

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[EzekialPhoenix 10+ year member]

my recommendation is to turn your gains down, they are probably too high

 

[mikeyboc 10+ year member]

double check your ground also

 

[Mike yayo 10+ year member]

Amps set like this

Subsonice-Middle

Bass eq-0

Low pass-pointing at like 11:00 lol

Phase- like8:00

Level-2:00

Just used a clock to emphasize where the arrow was pointed, i didnt set them shop that installed it did/ and on my hu i have bass 4 and hpf at highest hz.

Also my ground is right where back seats are on black metal (its a 01 tahoe), is it bad to have it on the black metal with metal screw.

 

[15nissen 10+ year member]

When i play my system for like 5-10 minutes at volumes around 45, my car starts to smell like burning vinyl or something and my amps are hot, is this my amps overheating, anyone think getting some fans built on top of box (my amps are mounted on top of my box with trim panel only showing face) to cool them off is worth it or does that not help?

im willing to bet the coils are getting quite hot. amps get hot, and will trip into protection if they get too hot. i can get my type R really stinky. its a warning sign to turn it down.

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

its most likely your woofers, your amps will protect themselves.