**Battery or Altenator** Plz advice???

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

FYI, the number of subs has absolutely no affect on the amp. your friends blowing, overheating, or having problems with such notably reliable amps as kicker, probably have the subs wired wrong and too low of a load on the amp.

 

[SuperchargedRS 10+ year member]

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"d-tec" lol

 

[MetalHead888 10+ year member]

FYI, the number of subs has absolutely no affect on the amp. your friends blowing, overheating, or having problems with such notably reliable amps as kicker, probably have the subs wired wrong and too low of a load on the amp.

they are wired correctly and load is fine. one of my buddys amp did this and ive seen a lot of posts with trouble with mono kicker amps here

 

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

alot of trouble as compared to what? I mean are you trying to say there bad in general or what is your comparison too? Kickers are notably reliable amps.

Also, I don't think you get what I am saying... The amp doesn't care if you have one single voice coil 4 ohm sub or if you have 16 4ohm dual voice coils subs wired to 4 ohm. To the amp 4 ohm is 4 ohm, hence why I say people trying to say that the number of subs is what is determining the stability of there amp, do not know (in general) enough about the subject to evaluate hardware.

I have a tendency to come off sounding like a jerk sometimes, so no hard feelings, I am just doing my best to state facts. Sorry

 

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

oh yeah and just to add something, ive seen a lot of people have problems with power

Please elaborate. other then rated power, not as loud as X amp, what?

overheating,.

Alot of engineering went into these amps to keep them cool under load, overheating a amp 90% of the time indicates that the amp is being run at a lower impedance then stated stable load by the manufacturer, or is installed in such a manner as to not permit resonable air flow over its heat syncs.

and blowing in-line fuses with kicker mono amps and 2 subs.

Blowing a in-line fuse (unless the amp or power wire is shorting out) is a sign that the installer did not properly fuse the system to begin with. The fuse on the side of the amp is to protect the amp, the fuse in-line is to prevent the car from burning down or battery from exploding should the power cable short.