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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8857281" data-attributes="member: 614752"><p>I'm not getting precisely which wire is reading a short but this could certainly cause amps to protect or just blow. </p><p></p><p>You could probably rule out input voltage issue by just using a DMM on the power and ground terminals of the amp to make sure you're staying up above 12V when this happens, I don't believe there's anything you can do on the RCA input side that would cause an amp to protect, so all that's left would be thermal protect (is the amp very hot when it powers down?) or overloading the output side by driving too low impedance/short in the speaker output. </p><p></p><p>Can you see the entirety of all speaker wires coming out of your amp? If the insulation has failed and bare wire is touching metal in the car or the other wire that is a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8857281, member: 614752"] I'm not getting precisely which wire is reading a short but this could certainly cause amps to protect or just blow. You could probably rule out input voltage issue by just using a DMM on the power and ground terminals of the amp to make sure you're staying up above 12V when this happens, I don't believe there's anything you can do on the RCA input side that would cause an amp to protect, so all that's left would be thermal protect (is the amp very hot when it powers down?) or overloading the output side by driving too low impedance/short in the speaker output. Can you see the entirety of all speaker wires coming out of your amp? If the insulation has failed and bare wire is touching metal in the car or the other wire that is a problem. [/QUOTE]
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