Im an idiot, and smoke came out.

[Lurius 10+ year member]

Here I was having a good day, test fit new box, it fits ok, so-so. Im happy. Get a pay check, im happy. Drive to bank without disconnecting amps power, while wires are loose in back seat, not bothering to tape them off.. NOT HAPPY. wtf was I thinking? Half way to bank I see and smell smoke behind me, coming out of my alpine >.

I guess this means the board is fried?

Im so pissed at myself. Took me 3 weeks to find this **** amp and 8 months later is fried //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif

Gah, whats worse, fried amp, or knowing its my own fault?

-Lurius

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[djman37 5,000+ posts]

what'd you do? short out + and - on the amp somewhere? sorry to hear it.

 

[mikeyboc 10+ year member]

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That sucks man, it is worse when you know you ****ed it up yourself.

 

[Lurius 10+ year member]

what'd you do? short out + and - on the amp somewhere? sorry to hear it.

Im guessing this is exactly what heppend. I was able to find this 6 year old amp new, in box, never powered up on ebay in january.. such an awesome find.. 0.08thd @ 4ohm, under rated, but birth sheet put out 110 X2 @ 4ohm, perfect for a good set of components, or bridged it put out some mean bass stable up to 1ohm. I was going to be replacing the kicker amp powering speakers and use this to power a good set of components and then a Massive Audio 1500.1 to power the subs.. now I have to re-think everything =(.. seriously, it just about made me cry.

-Lurius

PS: Me and my whole truck smell like circuit board and chlorine(?), sucks lol.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

Im guessing this is exactly what heppend. I was able to find this 6 year old amp new, in box, never powered up on ebay in january.. such an awesome find.. 0.08thd @ 4ohm, under rated, but birth sheet put out 110 X2 @ 4ohm, perfect for a good set of components, or bridged it put out some mean bass stable up to 1ohm. I was going to be replacing the kicker amp powering speakers and use this to power a good set of components and then a Massive Audio 1500.1 to power the subs.. now I have to re-think everything =(.. seriously, it just about made me cry.
-Lurius

PS: Me and my whole truck smell like circuit board and chlorine(?), sucks lol.

eewww... the 'electrical' smell.

 

[mikeyboc 10+ year member]

Cross your fingers and see if it can be repaired.

 

[json_35010 10+ year member]

It sucks that it happened, but it can definitely be repaired. Alpine's amps are extremely well designed and have excellent internal protection. Repair shouldn't be a problem, and you will still have a solid amp.

 

[Lurius 10+ year member]

Ive been thinking. The solid red LED came on after this happened, which indicates bad power or blown fuse.. First thing I did was pull the fuse to stop any more damage, it was fine, not blown. Maybe its just the power supply thats screwed up? What do yall think?

-Lurius

 

[Lurius 10+ year member]

Pics:

Well, as you can see its nasty looking =P

I called up alpine, and they told me 70$(which includes return shipping) will fix whatever is wrong, so unless I can get it fixed locally im going to go with that route(locally to avoid hassles of shipping).

-Lurius

EDIT: Well, I called the repair shop alpine said to mail it to and they told me it would be 140$, and that from the way I described it it would be likely they would have to decline repairs and mail it back to me as-is, AARGH. 140$ and maybe a little extra and I can get another one of these, or a different amp =/...

 

[Lurius 10+ year member]

Well, I called around, everybody wants arm+leg(=//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif ) to repair the amp, so I went on ebay and bought an Eclipse 4212 2ch amp. 130w@4ohm .008THD hehe. I'll be putting the new components on this amp once I decide on some new speakers(one of the 6010's woofers VC is a little messed up, yea, I know,shit for luck lately).

-Lurius

PS: Another example of my luck.. I have had two job offers for 20-24$/hr.. both are just about the farthest you can get from me, one in seattle and one in san diego >.

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

tape any bare wire this time and well done for keeping your sense of humur

 

[Lurius 10+ year member]

tape any bare wire this time and well done for keeping your sense of humur

Definantly taping up wire this time =(... Im keeping this amp, maybe onday I will have the spare $ to fix it, or get a good deal on a new board or something. I can always use it in my sisters car or something.

Im just happy I found a nice eclipse that fits my needs so well!

-Lurius