Help: Subs cut out when hitting hard

[cyn 10+ year member]

If you can't keep the battery charged will running the amp.. you can't charge the battery charge a cap and run the amp either.. so no a cap is not a good thing. get a better battery, do the big 3 upgrade, make sure the ohm load is correct with the amp, upgrade your alt. if you have to and if you do upgrade go no lower than 140amps no since in upgrading 15-20amps on an alternator.. but for the price you can just get a 220 amp or something like that..

 

[winkychevelle 10+ year member]

Caps do help, but not nearly as much as the price u spend on them for the money you spend on a cap u could buy a cheap battery that will do no exageration 50x better minimum. Now to your problem, that is not enough power you are running for low voltage issues. I am willing to bet you are wired down too low of an ohm load for that amp. Other problem could be you have the bass boost and gain completly maxed.

caps dont boost voltage though they are only good for split seconds at a time. really the only useful place for a cap is when your voltage is dropping .1 volt causing very very minor dimming. a cap doesnt fix bad voltage drop normally makes it worse. a batt will help as well as lowering the gain and bass boost. ohm load should be fine granted he isnt running a 2 ohm amp at 1ohm or a 4 ohm amp at 2ohm which considering he can play his music for a while i doubt this is the problem

 

[deadmanrob 10+ year member]

Caps do help, but not nearly as much as the price u spend on them for the money you spend on a cap u could buy a cheap battery that will do no exageration 50x better minimum. Now to your problem, that is not enough power you are running for low voltage issues. I am willing to bet you are wired down too low of an ohm load for that amp. Other problem could be you have the bass boost and gain completly maxed.

now that you menion it it never did this til i bridged the subs I feel so dumb for not thinking of that.

 

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

That amp can only handle a 4 ohm load when bridged. How are your subs wired?

 

[deadmanrob 10+ year member]

i just had the positive and negative of each sub put into the pos and neg of the bridge

 

[deadmanrob 10+ year member]

ok i did a little research and got the model numbers on my subs i have a sony XS-L1046 AND A MTX 6000 T6104A . I know I know mixmatch subs blah blah but I'm trying to work with what i got till I can buy somthing else.

 

[Jay Biz 10+ year member]

ok i did a little research and got the model numbers on my subs i have a sony XS-L1046 AND A MTX 6000 T6104A . I know I know mixmatch subs blah blah but I'm trying to work with what i got till I can buy somthing else.

Un-bridge them and you should be fine (mix match subs...)

 

[deadmanrob 10+ year member]

yea i unbridged em and they obviously dont hit as nice but dont cut out could you tell me why they do this ? aside from being mixmatched . I'm trying to learn from my mistakes

 

[HillBillyJoe]

Different subs, different impedance=amps don't like that

 

[destined2race 10+ year member]

ya if you have 2 4ohm subs and you wire them together the amp will run 2 ohms or 8 ohms depending on how you wired them. If its not a 2 ohm stable amp then it will cut out/ maybe even break eventually. And at 8 ohms it would make barely any power.

 

[deadmanrob 10+ year member]

it is a kenwood kac-7201 amp . I wired both positives and put them into the positive bridge. and both negs and put them in the neg bridge. i have them unbridged now. I am still learning al this imp , ohm stuff lmao