Can you blow amps by hooking it up wrong?

[31337hxr 10+ year member]

Can you blow up amps if you hook the POS+ and NEG- terminal wrong to each wire?

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[beastyle 10+ year member]

Good quality amps, no

low budget amps.. yes

In most good amps it just jumps in safe mode, you will fry any fuse thats in it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[EarDrummin. 10+ year member]

Uhm.. are you planning on testing that theory out or something? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[jlaine 10+ year member]

My question would be are we talking speaker outputs or power input?

I've tested a few amps 'protection circuitry' by deliberately switching the power input leads over, it promptly kicks into protect, as it should, and if it fails, that is a warranty issue if they state reverse polarity protection.

But if we are talking speaker outputs, it doesn't matter...