HELP!! phoenix gold 15.0:1 overheated internal heatsink!!

[chuweey]

hello. im new to the car audio world and dont know much about this subject but i have a problem.

i have a phoenix gold 15.0:1 mono amp and i think i overheated it.

i accidentally touched one of the speaker wires to ground and it blew my 100amp fuse on my underhood fusebox..then the sub went dead.

the amp still powers on but one of the red status LED's came on and in the manual it says "lights if the amp shuts down due to overheating. if the internal heatsink reaches 90 degrees celsius, the amp shuts down until the internal temperature falls below 90 degrees."

what does that mean? can i fix it myself? and what does the internal heatsink look like?

i opened up the amp and everything looks new..dont see anything fryed..

if you guys want pics i can talk some..

any help would be greatly appreciated.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif :crap:

oh..and another thing. if i pull out my rca cables and start the car..my inline fuse (60amp) from the power cable will blow.. is this suppose to happen?

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[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Sounds like you fried the internals on the amp and it's now shorting out....

 

[Towncar 10+ year member]

hello. im new to the car audio world and dont know much about this subject but i have a problem.
i have a phoenix gold 15.0:1 mono amp and i think i overheated it.

i accidentally touched one of the speaker wires to ground and it blew my 100amp fuse on my underhood fusebox..then the sub went dead.

the amp still powers on but one of the red status LED's came on and in the manual it says "lights if the amp shuts down due to overheating. if the internal heatsink reaches 90 degrees celsius, the amp shuts down until the internal temperature falls below 90 degrees."

what does that mean? can i fix it myself? and what does the internal heatsink look like?

i opened up the amp and everything looks new..dont see anything fryed..

if you guys want pics i can talk some..

any help would be greatly appreciated.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif :crap:

oh..and another thing. if i pull out my rca cables and start the car..my inline fuse (60amp) from the power cable will blow.. is this suppose to happen?

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[Towncar 10+ year member]

your question was seen on another forum, and this is what was said.

Hate to tell ya but hes SCREWED. I have three Hifonics Hercules XI's and they are the exact same amp inside. And I do mean Exact. I restored one from two blown.

His amp is Blown , the outputs are dead shorted. RFP70N06 mosfets for outputs and IRFP064's for the power supply. If he keeps trying fuses he will blow the power supplies along with the amp channels

His overheat issues is related to dead shorted outputs trying to cook the case

another words call pg, and get it fixed

 

[chuweey]

thanks alot guys for all your help! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

 

[Towncar 10+ year member]

thanks alot guys for all your help! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

Shouldnt be to bad. The flat rates are reasonable, and the turn around is about 2 weeks.