Did I Fry My Amp II: The Sequel

[AudioworksCt_JK]

ur amp will over heat when it is not getting enuf current do to wire be to small

Please elaborate. I haven't had a good laugh today.

 

[wesl56 10+ year member]

I am just so frustrated. I know I screwed up big time, but the labor is warrantied from the place I had the work done, but because they used the wiring I bought and provided them, they will not warranty the wiring and any damage caused by faulty wiring.
That is why I am so concerned as to whether the reason my amp blew was because of faulty wiring or a crappy installer.

If the install was crappy, it will be warrantied and hopefully they will be the ones replacing my amp, if it was my wiring, I am screwed.

i havent seen it, but i'll bet it wasn't faulty wiring, but faulty installation.... good luck arguing that with a shady car audio shop tho //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[natan 10+ year member]

This thread is hilarious. I love how people who don't even know how to power up a light bulb are giving advice on electrical issues. Ockham's razor states the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is most likely the correct explanation. So lets look at your ideas for this failure:

1. Some installation issue causes a delayed failure. An amp isn't rocket science to hook up if it works initially I see no reason to blame the installer.

2. The wire you hooked up was to small of a gauge. This is also a very suspect reason as it is against everything I know about electricity. Note the fact that people who will state this was the reason can't give you any actual evidence to why having a wire of to small a gauge will kill an amplifier. This is the reason for other possible problems but to totally kill an amp? Without some plausible explanation I don't see a reason to believe this.

I will throw out a third idea (crazy I know!):

3. Some company makes thousands of amplifiers a year with hundreds of electrical components and solder joints inside. Of these hundred of thousand failure points (maybe millions?) between all these amplifiers one just happened to be weak in your amp.