Fried my Audiopipe Apsm-1500 - Got a few questions

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

What do you think I made an error on? The only thing I can think of is the speaker terminals. 

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Are they bad amps?

He has a grudge against AP cause he's had bad luck with them...my ap1500 worked fine and I have 0 issues with AP. You get what you pay for, but you shouldn't be frying your amp like that. Something definitely went wrong

 

[CAT MAN 5,000+ posts]

He has a grudge against AP cause he's had bad luck with them...my ap1500 worked fine and I have 0 issues with AP. You get what you pay for, but you shouldn't be frying your amp like that. Something definitely went wrong

no grudge at all. ap makes bad amps til the apk+ series. everyone knows it

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

He has a grudge against AP cause he's had bad luck with them...my ap1500 worked fine and I have 0 issues with AP. You get what you pay for, but you shouldn't be frying your amp like that. Something definitely went wrong

I really am just baffled and so confused about it. First equipment I've ever fried like that. I thought it was Gna set on fire lmao. Is the apsm 1500 maybe not compatible and right for my hdc3 12" audioque sub?

 

[rebelfromva 10+ year member]

I really am just baffled and so confused about it. First equipment I've ever fried like that. I thought it was Gna set on fire lmao. Is the apsm 1500 maybe not compatible and right for my hdc3 12" audioque sub?

1500 watts is more than good for the hdc3. You had everything hooked up correctly? All sub wires still connected? What's your electrical like? You didn't try to wire it down to like .25 on stock electrical did you?

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

1500 watts is more than good for the hdc3. You had everything hooked up correctly? All sub wires still connected? What's your electrical like? You didn't try to wire it down to like .25 on stock electrical did you?

I thought I had it wired at 2 ohms. Might have gotten things switched up tho on accident? I had negative from one wire nutted to the positive on other side. Then the neg from one side and pos from the other that we're free I put in the very left terminal and very right terminal. Also on the amp it pointed to these terminals and said 1 ohms min. I metered the sub and it was running 2.4-2.5 ohms. My electrical should be fine. Got big 3 with 4 gauge. And at 2 ohms the amp only puts out 1000watts.

The only thing me and my dad can think is I accidentally put wrong speaker wires in wrong places maybe creating a diff ohm and it bein Lower than 1 ohm so it fried. I coulda swore everything was fine tho. Like I said in the first post a few days ago it played for like 15 mins no problems. It just turned off because I had a bad connection.. I fixed that and it fried.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

no grudge at all. ap makes bad amps til the apk+ series. everyone knows it

Man you can't tell me you don't have a grudge then go saying stuff like that lol. The amps aren't bad they just aren't high quality. You just have really bad luck with stuff As for the OP, I'm 99% sure he messed something up.

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

Manufacters defect on this amp? The amp before this one I think was protecting cuz I'm an idiot and wired it wrong, but was this one my fault? The sides burnt out. My first sign was I was unscrewing the case to get it off and take gut pics for ya'll and it sparked at me, it was in my living room absolutely no power. Then I starting taking the screws out and half of them were melted off or melted completely beside the heads of them. Nothing is burnt really except where those screws screwed in. Heres some pics.

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My dad said this.. " The fact that the stews burned off tell me that they shorted the components directly to the case which is grounded causing a direct short. The case should never be in contact with the components. This results in a manufactor defect and also resulted in the failure of the amp."

He used to work on circuit boards and did a lot of electric that has to do with stuff like this so he knows a decent amount. Also take into fact tho that it was 30 years ago when we was doin that stuff and boards have changed since then so that's just what he said not saying he's right. What he knows is maybe how it used to be, and not now. Just throwing it out there for maybe someone to relate.

 

[rebelfromva 10+ year member]

Alright guys, I'm new but I'm calling this one. Manufacterer defect. The amp before this one I think was protecting cuz I'm an idiot and wired it wrong, this one was not my fault. The sides burnt out. My first sign was I was unscrewing the case to get it off and take gut pics for ya'll and it sparked at me, it was in my living room absolutely no power. Then I starting taking the screws out and half of them were melted off or melted completely beside the heads of them. Nothing is burnt except where those screws screwed in. Heres some pics.View attachment 26534010View attachment 26534011View attachment 26534012View attachment 26534013View attachment 26534014View attachment 26534015View attachment 26534016View attachment 26534017

I'm on my phone but from what I can see those power supplies look fvcked

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

I'm on my phone but from what I can see those power supplies look fvcked

Those side things are power supplies? They aren't hooked up to any power.

 

[97maxima 10+ year member]

If you cant get it warrantied ill buy it from you

 

[rebelfromva 10+ year member]

Third pic op from what I can see. Can't zoom on this fvckin phone.

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

If you cant get it warrantied ill buy it from you

I'll keep that in mind, but you say warranty so you think this was prolly a manufacture defect? I already sent one amp back because I had the wire wrong, no way they'd take it again. I'll just have to spend 120$ on another. :\

 

[Quick 10+ year member]

Third pic op from what I can see. Can't zoom on this fvckin phone.

That's fine. I think that's the transistor right? It prolly got burnt while the sides were burning but I think the sides were the main thing seriously gettin hot and firin up.

 

[I Like Waffle]

Burned fets due to a bad ground. I could tell you had no business installing as soon as you said you wiggled a wire and the amp came back on. Probably was barely grounded properly, you probably wrapped it around a factory bolt or some ****.

 

[mclerico83 5,000+ posts]

the side toward the power input is usually by the power inputs it will have orange transformers usually that will look like wires wrapped around a core. on the other end of the amp will be the output section.