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<blockquote data-quote="BigFatCox" data-source="post: 6266214" data-attributes="member: 605379"><p>I've had two 2 chanel audiobahn 500 wat amps sitting in my garage for a while now. I had swerved off the road in a bad rainstorm and my truck flooded with water, and one of them short circuited. Well i stupidly kept BOTH of them so now i cant remember which one was messed up, and which one was still working.</p><p></p><p>My truck is already wired for a system with 2 bridged amps, a head unit and 2 subwoofers. I've never wired anything myself but i figured i'd give it a try and thought hooking the amps up myself couldnt be that hard with little previous knowledge. mistake #1.</p><p></p><p>The first mistake (i think) that i made is not disconnecting the battery first. On the first amp I hooked up, I had the power and remote outlets finished and only needed to plug in the ground cable. As soon as I did the entire thing blew into ****ing smoke and a small fire was inside of the amp. Either this for SURE is the bad one, or i just ruined a perfectly good amp.</p><p></p><p>Weird thing was, I have a large fuse just outside the car battery box, heavy duty fuses fight before the battery to amplifier input, and 40 watt fuses on the amps; none of which were blown.</p><p></p><p>Was this probably simply due to the fact that my battery was on? I'm positive I had all the wiring in the right spot at least. Oh well, that amps fried anyways. Now on to the second one.</p><p></p><p>This time i unplug the negative terminal to my battery first. Then I hook up power, ground and remote cables and then replug in the battery and start the car. The thing didnt turn on. I figured 'shit, i just ruined the good one and this is the bad one'.</p><p></p><p>Just to be sure, I took that one off and plugged in an old 170 watt Kenwood amp that i had lying around that I KNOW is good. Re plugged in the battery and IT didnt turn on either. Whats the deal here?</p><p></p><p>Do I need to have two amplifiers bridged together in the car to complete a circuit? The power cable, before it reaches the amps, goes into a fuze box which splits it into 2 protected currents with 2 battery cable outlets; one for each amp.</p><p></p><p>To test that, I then unplugged the main power cable from that and shoved it straight into the kenwood. Still nothing. WTF is wrong with my setup?? lol.</p><p></p><p>It was working fine before the amps got ruined. Worst comes to worse ill take it in somewhere, but if I could do it alone itd be great. Any ideas into why even my good amp wouldnt work?? ANY help would be appreciated...thanks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/greedy.gif.5a53e6246569d7ab79867170f3b06629.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigFatCox, post: 6266214, member: 605379"] I've had two 2 chanel audiobahn 500 wat amps sitting in my garage for a while now. I had swerved off the road in a bad rainstorm and my truck flooded with water, and one of them short circuited. Well i stupidly kept BOTH of them so now i cant remember which one was messed up, and which one was still working. My truck is already wired for a system with 2 bridged amps, a head unit and 2 subwoofers. I've never wired anything myself but i figured i'd give it a try and thought hooking the amps up myself couldnt be that hard with little previous knowledge. mistake #1. The first mistake (i think) that i made is not disconnecting the battery first. On the first amp I hooked up, I had the power and remote outlets finished and only needed to plug in the ground cable. As soon as I did the entire thing blew into ****ing smoke and a small fire was inside of the amp. Either this for SURE is the bad one, or i just ruined a perfectly good amp. Weird thing was, I have a large fuse just outside the car battery box, heavy duty fuses fight before the battery to amplifier input, and 40 watt fuses on the amps; none of which were blown. Was this probably simply due to the fact that my battery was on? I'm positive I had all the wiring in the right spot at least. Oh well, that amps fried anyways. Now on to the second one. This time i unplug the negative terminal to my battery first. Then I hook up power, ground and remote cables and then replug in the battery and start the car. The thing didnt turn on. I figured 'shit, i just ruined the good one and this is the bad one'. Just to be sure, I took that one off and plugged in an old 170 watt Kenwood amp that i had lying around that I KNOW is good. Re plugged in the battery and IT didnt turn on either. Whats the deal here? Do I need to have two amplifiers bridged together in the car to complete a circuit? The power cable, before it reaches the amps, goes into a fuze box which splits it into 2 protected currents with 2 battery cable outlets; one for each amp. To test that, I then unplugged the main power cable from that and shoved it straight into the kenwood. Still nothing. WTF is wrong with my setup?? lol. It was working fine before the amps got ruined. Worst comes to worse ill take it in somewhere, but if I could do it alone itd be great. Any ideas into why even my good amp wouldnt work?? ANY help would be appreciated...thanks [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/greedy.gif.5a53e6246569d7ab79867170f3b06629.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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