I need help

[stones 10+ year member]

Thank you all for the help. I remember my friend did turn the bass boost and gain up alot so I have them turned down now but I have one more problem.
The remote turn on would light up but the amp would not turn on so we checked the fuse under the hood and it was blown. My ground and power wires had fell out of the amp so my friend said it blew because my ground and power wire touched. So...... we went to change the fuse under the hood and as soon as we put the fuse in it blew instantly. I think the car and the remote was on when we changed the fuse, could that have been the problem? I really need you guys help, I'm going to buy another fuse in the morning but I'm scared that it will blow instantly again.

You change the fuse with the system OFF!

Changing fuses with the amp turned on is bad, as soon as the fuse completes the circiut a large spike of power goes to the amp and can possibly damage its power supply, you need to connect it then let the amp power up normally..

If your power wires are hooked up correctly (check those polaritys) and there is no stray wires sticking out of the terminals grounding out on somthing and no sections of wire grounding out on the chassis then you should be able to put a new fuse in and turn the system back on.

If the fuses continue to blow you have damaged your amps power supply and need to get it repaired.

 

[Vega 10+ year member]

Well I went to the shop and bought more fuses and as soon as I turned the amp on the fuse blew again. After that I had the shop check it out and they said my friend did quite a few things wrong in the installation and they also said the fuses were being blow by my amp because it was damaged. So they fixed everything and offered to swap my broken Viper for a 1200w Cadence Ultradrive and since I didn't have anymore money to spend on audio I agreed. The sub hits really hard and sounds OK. Is Cadence a good company when it comes to amp? I've never heard of them.

 

[diminishedpower 10+ year member]

cadence are great amps, but i dont know about that one and seems fishy for them to just offer to trade..