HiFonics going into Protect !

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

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[thaster 10+ year member]

check power and ground wire

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

I have a Fosgate 450.4 amp the HiFonics Brutus hooked up to a Fosgate CAP. i reset the power on the HiFonics and the ground. whats that skinny blue wire called? i reset that one too.

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

remote.

how do you reset a wire.

try unplugging every thing and leave it unplugged over night.

 

[thaster 10+ year member]

check your connections. If you have a DMM, check it with that

 

[SHOemup233 10+ year member]

Turn the bass boost all the way down.

Buy a DMM from radioshack and check your voltage in your car.

Make sure you aren't clipping your amp.

Check your power and ground wire - especially the ground. My ground has come loose quite a few times.

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

what does clipping mean? sorry i've seen the term but don't really know what that means. and what should i look for when i use a DMM

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

 

[geowick07 10+ year member]

To set gains with DMM, use this formula: SQRT(RMS x Impedance)=Output voltage.

Example: 2,000rms x 1ohm = 2000. SQRT of 2000 = 44.7V

Oh, and lose the cap.

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

why, is the cap a bottle neck?

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

Just opened up the HiFonices, is this normal?

 

[thaster 10+ year member]

what does clipping mean? sorry i've seen the term but don't really know what that means. and what should i look for when i use a DMM

if you dont know what clipping is, then you probably clipped and blown your amp. maybe even your sub.

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

CMD > Define > Clipping

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

Clipping occurs when an amplifier is asked to deliver more current to a speaker than the amp is capable of doing. When an amplifier clips, it literally cuts off the tops and bottoms of the musical waveforms that it's trying to reproduce, thus the term. This introduces a huge amount of distortion into the output signal. Clipping can be heard as a crunching sound on musical peaks.

 

[Sweetscience 10+ year member]

how would i know if im doing that?>