Audiopipe Amp goes into Recovery mode

[Dorian772 10+ year member]

I have two alpine R's dual 2 ohm in a ported box, powering them is a brand new AudioPipe 1800w amp.Whenever I put the volume past like half with bass boost on like 8-10 db the amp goes into recovery mode and the system truns off. Does anybody know how to fix this?

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[fyerbyrd22 10+ year member]

turn bass boost off

 

[ItsAJeepThing 10+ year member]

Get your gains set properly and don't use bass boost.

 

[Dorian772 10+ year member]

Get your gains set properly and don't use bass boost.

what do you think some good gains would be?

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

Get with someone that knows how to do it right. Also, you may want to check your voltage as low dipping voltage would put the amp in protect as well.

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

Where are the rest of your settings at....

xo, head unit bass....ect.

 

[Dorian772 10+ year member]

head unit bass was at +6/6 when i tried it and left all the gains and little screws on the amp the only thing i was messing with was the bass boost knob that i mounted near my dash.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

Set your headunit bass to 0/6, assuming it goes from -6 to 6. That is boosting by 6dB and is clipping, along with your bass boost settings you have a bad combo. Make sure your ground is tight and the metal it's grounded to has been sanded/grinded down.

 

[Dorian772 10+ year member]

Set your headunit bass to 0/6, assuming it goes from -6 to 6. That is boosting by 6dB and is clipping, along with your bass boost settings you have a bad combo. Make sure your ground is tight and the metal it's grounded to has been sanded/grinded down.

alright will do and why would this be a bad combo?

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

alright will do and why would this be a bad combo?

Bass boosting creates clipping, which is a form of distortion. What happens with clipping is extra heat is generated because instead of a sine wave being smooth, it's more of a square wave. The wave itself stays maxes out for a longer period of time, and in that fraction of a second it generates more heat. This mainly is what hurts subs because the voice coil gets too hot and eventually the glue holding it together will melt. It can also hurt amps because the components amplifying the signal will also heat up as well.

 

[Dorian772 10+ year member]

thanks alot, i think i will have a professional look at it just to be sure.

 

[JoshC 10+ year member]

I had mine do this. Thought it was my amp till i tryed 2 others. Turned out the voice coil had a bad spot in it so every time i turned it past 15 it hit that part and sent any amp into protection. And it just went from bumpin everyday to burnt coil. Just a FYI //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif hope its an easy fix

 

[Dorian772 10+ year member]

do you know how much it would be to fix?

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

do you know how much it would be to fix?

he is saying his subs caused the problem, not the amp.

I'm in no mood to help further, but taking an amp out of the box and jacking the h/u sub level to max and cranking the bass boost sound like a pretty good starting point for your issues. Since you seem quite up on things, tell us how many batteries, what guage of wire, and any other important information so we can try and figure this out.

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

if you have dual 2's do you have it dropped to .5 ohm? that may be one of your probs