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<blockquote data-quote="RabidTrout" data-source="post: 7907192" data-attributes="member: 601612">Thank you for the info.. Pulling it out of the car was the only thing that I didn&#039;t do.. I chased all of my wires and they check out. Changed my grounding location for that amp. The only reason I didn&#039;t pull it out of the car was because I am running two amps, both off the same 4 gauge wire. Well, to a splitter down to 8 ga. anyways. The power lead going to that amp is only about 8&quot; long, so it was pretty easy to see that there were no issues with that wire (or any other wire touching it for that matter).Same result. Reconnect the negative to the car battery and it the fuse that is in the amp itself, blows. Again, no smoke, smell or anything.The only issue that I have out of my mid&#039;s and high&#039;s amp is a slight whine, so that tells me that it centralized to that amp alone. I know the amp worked previously because I just took it out of one car and put it in another.. Hooked it up wrong and now it has &quot;issues&quot;You&#039;re telling me. I&#039;ve never ever had an issue with installing stereos.. It just blows my mind that the fuse really isn&#039;t the safety catch that it is intended to be (unless its not intended to prevent stupidity)... I guess I&#039;m just beating myself up over this too much.I still just can&#039;t wrap my head around the fact that the amp is blown. But, like you said. &quot;Sometimes car audio defies all logic&quot;. Figured switching polarities would just make it not work temporarily, not permanently...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RabidTrout, post: 7907192, member: 601612"] Thank you for the info.. Pulling it out of the car was the only thing that I didn't do.. I chased all of my wires and they check out. Changed my grounding location for that amp. The only reason I didn't pull it out of the car was because I am running two amps, both off the same 4 gauge wire. Well, to a splitter down to 8 ga. anyways. The power lead going to that amp is only about 8" long, so it was pretty easy to see that there were no issues with that wire (or any other wire touching it for that matter). Same result. Reconnect the negative to the car battery and it the fuse that is in the amp itself, blows. Again, no smoke, smell or anything. The only issue that I have out of my mid's and high's amp is a slight whine, so that tells me that it centralized to that amp alone. I know the amp worked previously because I just took it out of one car and put it in another.. Hooked it up wrong and now it has "issues" You're telling me. I've never ever had an issue with installing stereos.. It just blows my mind that the fuse really isn't the safety catch that it is intended to be (unless its not intended to prevent stupidity)... I guess I'm just beating myself up over this too much. I still just can't wrap my head around the fact that the amp is blown. But, like you said. "Sometimes car audio defies all logic". Figured switching polarities would just make it not work temporarily, not permanently... [/QUOTE]

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