Brand new SAZ-1500D keeps going into protection mode

[350zspl 10+ year member]

2 awg would be fine on a 1500 as long as the run is not super long

 

[alex5857 10+ year member]

What Are The Coils?

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

d1.4

 

[Earthman 10+ year member]

I too am wondering about high signal input voltage

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

d1.4

so your amp is seeing 0.75 final, correct?

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

First change the RCA cable - then I'd investigate over-voltage on the RCAs from the HU.

Usually people don't have any problems with the Eclipse units, but perhaps it is possible in some cases.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Do you happen to be using a line driver that goes above 6v?
I was lookin at your posts trying to figure it out, what headunit are you using? is it an older eclipse with a high voltage output?

I have an Eclipse 8053 with 8V preouts, and I can turn it all the way up without having any issues. I actually ran mine at .5ohm for a few days while the wire from my alt to my main battery somehow got disconnected...needless to say, the amp didn't start cutting out until it was playing at 9V(batts not getting a charge from the alt) with a .5ohm load. And I still had to turn it up quite a bit in order for it to cut out.

I checked the battery in the back and it read 8.5V...I flipped out, thought I killed something. These amp are tanks.

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

I really doubt lower voltage or ohm load is an issue. I ran my saz3000d @.5 saw voltage down to 11.8 Never not once went into protect.

i was thinking running that low with smaller power wire. he might have the power to run the amp, but not the wire to get all the current to the amp. thats kinda what i was getting at.

 

[Andrew12 10+ year member]

The center pin doesn't make good connection. Seems the cheapest RCAs never have this problem, only expensive ones.

I had the same problem in my install. The top series of the stinger RCA's would cause the amp to go into protect. Jacob told me to try cheap radioshack rca's and sure enough, flawless performance.

 

[TSGP]

the main problem i see....

the 1500 shouldn't draw 200 amps....and unless his ac is on high, he's rolling his windows down, his lights are on, and all the lights in the vehicle are on....he shouldn't have ANY voltage drop because it should be pulling straight from the alt //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif