Fuse Blows When I turn Car on

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

its been fine for a few months and now its just happening recently so i dunno what i did.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

check your connections something may have came loose

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

hmmm ok

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

all the connections are secure

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

you may have blown the internal power supply on the amp. and it wont hold the charge. Do you have any other amps that would be more friendly with 8 gauge? try putting that amp on it and see if you still pop a fuse

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

this is why you never never never run 8 gauge on that big of an amp....

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

ic, would i be able to spot this if i look at the guts?

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

ic, would i be able to spot this if i look at the guts?

i would first try another amp. But you should be able to tell if its blown by looking ya

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

yeah i dont have a weaker amp right now so im gonna have to look ath the guts, and if this isnt the problem, what might the problem be?

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

im gonna lay money on you blew the power supply. that is if you have everything else installed correctly

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

opened up the amp and everything looks fine....

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

and i had my brother do the install on the wires and stuff and he has a few years of experience.

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

but what do the amps power supply look like so i can look closer

 

[Big Dee 10+ year member]

, im going 2 gauge pretty soon hoping that will fix the problem.

it won't

 

[dennisthamenace 10+ year member]

could it be the alternator, or be the battery itself sending irratic power? because when it was working i was using a dmm to set the gains and the voltage on the amp would go from 0-60 back to like 14 up to 60 for a while and coast at around 12 most of the time. this isnt the first time ive been having trouble with getting power to my amp