how hot should a deck run?

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

ive got an excelon x979 deck, and when i eject cd's after i've been slamming, they're really hot, hot enough i dont want to keep holding them. this normal? its only about 80-90 degrees here now.

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[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

not on mine... the deck itself will get pretty hot after running for an hour or two, but not so much the CD's.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

My 9853 has built in fan but my old P7600MP never got hot except when I left it on for 8hrs...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

hot enough to castrate //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Spkrman]

some decks get smokin hot, can't do much about it.

fan in the dash or open up some space back there.

 

[DIPayton 10+ year member]

my old JVC HU used to get my CD's pretty hot... but only if I was driving for hours with the same CD... so it didnt happen too often.

 

[Logikalliquid 10+ year member]

My KDC-X879 got pretty warm as well in 2 different vehicles. I guess they just run warm, I'm sure that big screen has something to do with that. Turning off the internal amp helps. The CDs never got too hot to hold though.

 

[Range Rover 10+ year member]

My Alpine deck gets hot as fuk

Sometimes after a hard night of playing it at high volume the buttoms almost burn my fingers..

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[dubrx 10+ year member]

yea my deck tends to heat up after a few hours of cd playing not to bad with the radio though

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

My sony heats up. The CD's are warm to the touch. But this is normal with minimal ventiallation and heavy driving of the unit. It should not be so hot to keep you from touching it though. Unless you're just being a baby.

 

[Decado 10+ year member]

ive got an excelon x979 deck, and when i eject cd's after i've been slamming, they're really hot, hot enough i dont want to keep holding them. this normal? its only about 80-90 degrees here now.

My x679 would do that, it would even go into protect mode, people over on carstereo thought that it was because the speakers were too powerful for the deck...but I dunno.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

My x679 would do that, it would even go into protect mode, people over on carstereo thought that it was because the speakers were too powerful for the deck...but I dunno.

You can put a XXX on the deck and it should not cause any problems with the HU. As long as you do not go below the rated OHM lvl, or over drive the deck. But that's common sense...

 

[Decado 10+ year member]

You can put a XXX on the deck and it should not cause any problems with the HU. As long as you do not go below the rated OHM lvl.

Well wtf then, why was my HU amp goin into protect mode? I guess I don't really care anymore now that i have an external amp, but it would still be interesting to figure out why.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

Well wtf then, why was my HU amp goin into protect mode? I guess I don't really care anymore now that i have an external amp, but it would still be interesting to figure out why.

What were the final ohm loads on each channel? How high did you normally run the volume? Where did you connect the power/ground wire from? And how cramped was the air space where the HU was installed?

 

[Decado 10+ year member]

What were the final ohm loads on each channel? How high did you normally run the volume? Where did you connect the power/ground wire from? And how cramped was the air space where the HU was installed?

Ohms was fine, could be high volume (crappy sony's need alot to get loud), power/ground fine, airspace could be it also.