friends an idiot

[wErd 5,000+ posts]

you guys remember along *** time ago, when i was talkin about how he put duct tape over his subwoofers because they were cracked...well now he epoxied the hell out of them...i see more epoxy than i see subwoofer.i was riding in his truck the other day and i noticed that his amp was getting really ****ing hot, almost to the point that if i touched it my skin would blister (literally) and i looked at his power wire and that shit was 12gauge at the most. is this why his amp is hot?im just tryin to learn.

btw its a 600watt kenwood bridged powering 2 pioneer 12"...

Click to read more...

 

[deadboi77 10+ year member]

im sure thats part of the prob....damm i use 10-12g.just for comps and subs..alil over kill but i had alot lyin around

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

Erm, well smaller wire won't make the amp run hot, unless maybe he has the gains cranked. He's really lucky the wire hasn't caught on fire yet because thats quite a bit of current for such a small wire.

 

[OLD_SCHOOL 10+ year member]

don't know if that would make an amp run hot to that point that your saying but it isn't helping. if he has those subs run in paralell the amp is seing a 1 ohm load assuming they are 4ohm DVC and i am not sure if that amp is made to run that load or not but i bet that would make it prett freakin hot heeh

ps i use 12 awg to wire subs with as well

 

[boister77 10+ year member]

could be the added weight of the epoxy. more work is required to move the cone causing extra heat.

 

[Depression 10+ year member]

I think the Wire would literally burn up before the amp ran that hot..

How many watts is his amp???

wait...sorry...are you saying he is running 12gauge speaker wire or 12gauge power wire to the amp???

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

small wire will not cause the amp to run hot. The problem, judging from the way the guy treats his equipment, is that he has the gain cranked as well as the bass boosts, etc. The extra weight on the sub's cone would only heat up/damage the sub, not the amp.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

If he really has that much epoxy on the sub, then they will fail here shortly. The spider/surround wasn't designed to move/support that extra weight.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

mass loading on sub cone = quite bad...both acoustically and mechanically...

 

[maniackilla 10+ year member]

his wire isnt great but itll work. i ran 1800watts on a stiff copper 8 guage and ran it thru the door of my s10 with electrical tape around a bald spot where it shorted against the door once before. did i mention i had no fuse and the ground wire was just screwed under a washer+bolt+nut in the bed of my truck w/o an eyehook?

...... for about 5 months

 

[Hooter 10+ year member]

if he is running to single voicecoils and he bridged them, the amp is seeing 2 ohms, most likely the amp is not made to run less then 4 ohms, he will burn something up, and plus what does his ground look like?

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

I've heard voltage drops can cause an amp to overheat. With a 12ga power wire, I'm guessing the voltage drop is pretty significant.