Did my Sundown fry my H/U!??

[mannyb18b]

So my Pioneer caught fire. Had no music for a while until I had time to pull it out, and saw some wierd stuff. The RCA's on the Pioneer are compeltly burnt, it burnt a hole straight through the back.

The Pioneer still turned on and everything, just no sound cause of the RCA's. So I hooked up a Clarion unit, and when turned on it started to smoke but I unhooked it quickly enough so there was no damage.

I disconnected my RCA's from the Sundown and the deck works fine playing off the speaker amp.

Noticed the Sundown was in protection, so I guess it finally took a crap after playing .35 daily.

I've never heard of a signal through the RCA's burning up H/U's, but I guess when Sundowns blow they also **** up your decks.

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[bballrrt06 10+ year member]

uh you were running .35 daily? hope you're not planning on warranty claim

 

[MassOccur 10+ year member]

That's what happens @ .35 daily. Sorry it happened, but there are consequences and reasons things aren't warrantied that low.

 

[NDMstang65 10+ year member]

Told you not to play it at .35, but you no listen.

 

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

Yikes!

But x2 on the warranty, Jake only covers you down to .5 ohms //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif Never heard of RCAs doing this though.

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Have you tried listening to the sundown at higher load?

 

[bballrrt06 10+ year member]

still though.. rca's carrying that much current? sounds weird.

 

[bigbassman Premium Member]

my guess is the pioneer took out the sundown..

because I've seen several pioneers do it..

anywhoo...

Loyd L.

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

Is there a short in your RCA somewhere?

It's pretty much impossible for the amp to fry the HU. The RCA inputs are isolated internally so there is no path to ground through the RCA into the amplifier -- which is really the only way for the amp to fry the outputs of the HU.

Other than a shorted RCA or an internal HU problem I can't imagine what else would cause your problem. If somehow the Pioneer took out the input section of the 1500D there is no telling, without looking inside, what happened... so when you hooked the Clarion up if may have been too late for the amp already... perhaps something in the isolation circuitry was shorted by the Pioneers failure therefore allowing a path to ground.

Ship it back to me at the address in the manual and I'll take a look. At the least you are still qualified for a discounted replacement under the 5 year "discount replacement" part of the warranty.

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190194

Looking at your other thread it seems like you had some sort of intermittant problem with your setup before. Perhaps it was a flakey input signal from the HU causing the amp to go into protection before? A short in the HU throwing way too much input to the 1500D could have possibly damaged it as I previously stated above.

 

[Ford302Redneck 10+ year member]

uh oh the first sundown to fail... glad I dont have a pioneer head unit.

 

[SUB_URBAN 10+ year member]

uh oh the first sundown to fail... glad I dont have a pioneer head unit.

I do, and mine overheats when playing my speakers/subs at high levels for over 10 mins at a time. wtf. Basically it stops playing music to the speakers and all i can hear is the bass. I take the cd out and it is freaking hot as hell. I hate it.

 

[bigbassman Premium Member]

buddy of chad and mine has a pioneer with pre-out issues..

Loyd L.

 

[matrxx dude 5,000+ posts]

thats why i dont run pioneer anymore,to many issues with the preouts.

 

[SUB_URBAN 10+ year member]

Mine has preout issues as well. Screw pioneer. The SQ is just ok too.