dd z1 blown? help!!!!!!!!

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

well hooked my other subs up the other day to .5ohm and it jammed tuned it and all..... then i turned it on to show some people and worked good for a 1 min and bamm it turned off,(WTF) i turned it down and the amp turned on..... my volts didn't drop lower then 13 at idle..... so i wired it to 2 ohm thinking its being a ***** and bamm it started doing it there too

it will play perfect then turn off and then when ever it wants itll turn on again

*the remote is reading 14 when the car is one*

*ground has not changed *

*its wired to 2ohm*

something blown on the inside?

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[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

recheck your grounds...flip your master slave switch back and forth....if it still plays at least nothing major is hurt

 

[RidinSwangaz 10+ year member]

Open it and look..

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

i check grounds nothing have moved.... what does flipping the switch do?

 

[l7runner 10+ year member]

Are you driving it hard when it cuts out? My Z1 used to do that, it protects itself by doing that. Much rather it cut out then blow up.

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

nah man it does it at low volume even thats what i dont get

 

[l7runner 10+ year member]

Can you hear the relays popping in and out?

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

do you mean hearing the amp turn on and off?(clicking) yes i do

 

[l7runner 10+ year member]

yeah those relays are connected to the speaker outputs and drop in and out.

My Z1 blew once and after replacing the power supply FETs the relays continued to click, until I replaced the driver transistors. Then it worked fine

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

how much does that cost... and why does that go out even

 

[l7runner 10+ year member]

Z1s aren't known for their reliability unfortunately. Do you have a solid electrical system?

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

yeah i have 3 batts ...... 250 amp alt....... at 1 ohm my volts didnt see under 13 and at 2ohm it was like 13.4 was the lowest

some guy offered me 550 as is i might take it

 

[l7runner 10+ year member]

550 isn't a terrible price....you could pick up a used Sundown 3k for that...or almost 2 ap3000d ha

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

how much is it to fix even? im not one to go and dig around in a amp

 

[tjjohnson91 10+ year member]

i want a amp that can run around the same amount of power if i can...... and run a .5 ohm