**** I just messed something up on my system

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

Ok well im crusin down the road on my way to pick up some pizza and decided to fire my system up and test out the new hook up I got for my zune. It was not near as loud at the normal volume I use compared to CDs so I figured it was safe to bump it up about 10 points. It goes for about 2 seconds then the sub stops working. I checked out my amp and the protect light was orange and it was like blinking on and off.

What do you think happened? I need to try fixing this but I dont know where I should start. I just hope I didnt blow my 200 dollar sub

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[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

doesnt sound like a blown sub.....isnt that amp a little small for your sub? This can lead to major clipping and overheating of the amp

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

Is the protect light still on, after turning off the car off and on? Any smoke?

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

Is the protect light still on, after turning off the car off and on? Any smoke?

Yeah and no smoke

The protect light is flickering I dont think its suppose to flicker but not sure.

And the amp does 800 watts at 1 Ohm which is what I am running it at and thats just about the rated power for an SSD

 

[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

unhook the sub from the amp along with the RCAs.. turn on the amp, if still flickering then your amp is toast. if the protect comes out when unhooked test the amp to another speaker of any kind to see if it hops up into protect. if it doesn't, hook it back up to your sub. if it goes back into protect then it is possible that your sub is blown.

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

unhook the sub from the amp along with the RCAs.. turn on the amp, if still flickering then your amp is toast. if the protect comes out when unhooked test the amp to another speaker of any kind to see if it hops up into protect. if it doesn't, hook it back up to your sub. if it goes back into protect then it is possible that your sub is blown.

Alright

Dammit this sucks

I hope its the amp that will be easier to replace

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

I just went back out and fired it up and it worked, THANK GOD

What do you think happened? Im scared to hook my zune back up. I think ill just put all my real good bass songs on CDs and still never move above my dmm set volume

 

[TSGP]

sounds like you were clipping, or the impedence on the sub is too low on the amp

And the extra input voltage made it go into protect

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

sounds like you were clipping, or the impedence on the sub is too low on the amp
And the extra input voltage made it go into protect

Think I should just not turn it up very loud with I use my zune? Or could I put it to 35 volume (My normal volume) On my head unit with the zune plugged in and turn the gains up? (Ill use a DMM)

 

[Zeptoplix 10+ year member]

Doesn't your head unit have an adustment for input gain? Im just using a Sony POS and I am able to make adjustments to the aux input strength.

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

It might I need to check it out

 

[redfred18t 10+ year member]

Yeah definitely check the input adjustment. At the same volume, my cd source sounded like whispers while my ipod source was crazy loud, until I adjusted their input gains.

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

the opposite is true for me

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

Doesnt look like it has an input adjustment thats pretty bogus.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

 

[GMCJimmyslt2000 10+ year member]

look to see if ur zune has a volume control,turn it down and use ur deck as volume. AlSo make sure ur not usin a booster on ur zune.