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I have a jl audio slash 300/4 amp. I have been very pleased with the amp the year or so it's been in my truck. I've had the front two channels running my focal access 130.1 component speakers, and the rear two channels bridged running my jl audio 8w1v2.
About a week ago I was on a short drive, and started smelling a nasty electrical burning smell. Hoped it was just something outside, got home, checked all wires and under my hood, didn't notice anything unordinary, amp seemed fine, so I figured it was nothing. Next day went for a drive, and realized my sub was barely making any noise, and it was mostly just static. Then it quit altogether.
I figured it was just my subs time to go, even though it was only a year, maybe 1 1/2 old at the most, and I'd somehow gotten a dud.
Recently took the time to wire my infinity kappa 6x8 coax's up to the two rear channels of my amp, that way I'm not wasting those two channels while I search for another sub. Played some music for a few mins, and realized I'm noticing a funny smell come from the rear door speakers now. DIdn't take the time to see if it was one or both, but I know the drivers rear was smelling, cause that's the one I was standing near when I realized it. In disgust I turned the power off and walked back inside to deal with it later.
Everything still sounds great, and the sub sounded perfectly fine, even while I smelled the burning smell while driving, until it just wouldn't do anything the next morning.
Is it somehow possibly that somethings gone awry with my amp, and one or both of the rear channels is causing the speaker the respective channel is hooked to to "burn up"? And still perform perfectly sound wise until they quit?
Note:while I was investigating the burnt up sub after first discovering it was doing nothing, I realized one of the speaker wires to my passenger side component speaker on one of the FRONT channels had come loose, so that it was still sort of stuck in the hole, but only making partial contact. Which was causing the low ohm light to come on. Could this have had ANYTHING to do with the REAR channels starting to eat speakers? Both front channels are still doing just fine, and, after fixing the wire that had come loose and tightening it down securely, the speaker on that channel is also fine.
About a week ago I was on a short drive, and started smelling a nasty electrical burning smell. Hoped it was just something outside, got home, checked all wires and under my hood, didn't notice anything unordinary, amp seemed fine, so I figured it was nothing. Next day went for a drive, and realized my sub was barely making any noise, and it was mostly just static. Then it quit altogether.
I figured it was just my subs time to go, even though it was only a year, maybe 1 1/2 old at the most, and I'd somehow gotten a dud.
Recently took the time to wire my infinity kappa 6x8 coax's up to the two rear channels of my amp, that way I'm not wasting those two channels while I search for another sub. Played some music for a few mins, and realized I'm noticing a funny smell come from the rear door speakers now. DIdn't take the time to see if it was one or both, but I know the drivers rear was smelling, cause that's the one I was standing near when I realized it. In disgust I turned the power off and walked back inside to deal with it later.
Everything still sounds great, and the sub sounded perfectly fine, even while I smelled the burning smell while driving, until it just wouldn't do anything the next morning.
Is it somehow possibly that somethings gone awry with my amp, and one or both of the rear channels is causing the speaker the respective channel is hooked to to "burn up"? And still perform perfectly sound wise until they quit?
Note:while I was investigating the burnt up sub after first discovering it was doing nothing, I realized one of the speaker wires to my passenger side component speaker on one of the FRONT channels had come loose, so that it was still sort of stuck in the hole, but only making partial contact. Which was causing the low ohm light to come on. Could this have had ANYTHING to do with the REAR channels starting to eat speakers? Both front channels are still doing just fine, and, after fixing the wire that had come loose and tightening it down securely, the speaker on that channel is also fine.
