did i fry my amp?

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

yes. and i did not notice either protection lights, well atleast not on the aq there not, ill check the hifonics. i didnt think it was in protect since it played some atleast

 

[Cabin_Pressure 10+ year member]

If you have no protection lights, and no blown fuses, it sounds more like a lost signal or possibly lost connection. I would verify that both amps have an input signal before i did anything further.

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

how would i verify that? the cd player thing?

 

[Cabin_Pressure 10+ year member]

how would i verify that? the cd player thing?

Yes. I have never had it happen personally, but when you shorted the positive to the ground on the amp, it might have blown the signal outputs on the HU.

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

im going to frys, any other wires or connectors i should grab while im there? like on potential thigns id need to test this amp

 

[Girr 10+ year member]

Also a easy way to check if a amp has been burnt is just smell it, very easy to tell if its bad enough.

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

UPDATE:::::

ok so i connected my zune directly with stereo headphone to rca's. just like the HU, it palyed jsut VERY quiet (well all but one door speaker)

so then i was like matybe there not getting enough power? but my meter says over 13v. then i found...my main fuse by the battery popped. so im thinking maybe there was a little bit of the fuse that didnt burn, so just a little power was getting through, which was why my amps atleast tried to play music. it was a 150a fuse. ive never seen a burned fuse, but this one normally was shiny silver and zigzagged, and now in the middle its brown and melted a little bit, and discolored. so im guessing it burned. should i jsut get another fuse and try again? if so what size?

 

[Girr 10+ year member]

Same size to be safe you blew it by not disconnecting the neg term. It only takes a min to un-do it. It could have cost you more.

 

[Notloud00 10+ year member]

well dadgum

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

yea i started doing that. so i should go get antoher 150a fuse?

also is ther eanywhere else i should fuse? i have on before the batt, and one each on the distroblock fomr 0ga to 4ga for my amps.

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

lol zig zag and silver. Stinger FTW. Get new fuses, everywhere. DO IT

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

all my fuses are knu. should i even replace the two on the distroblock even though they look fine? and what amperage should the distroblock ones be

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

ok, so i switched the fuses, no help :'(

so is there another way to check if it works? it gets signal, just not loud except for the midbass

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

yes

 

[taintedplay 10+ year member]

yes what?

and the amp turns on fully, and reads 14.3v (same as reading directly from battery)