is my amp gone?

[mustangless]

I have not used my amp in a long time. Last time I was hooking it up and behind the radio started to smoke. The radio does not work any more for sure. Then my brother got it and tried hooking it up in a friends truck. he said it did not work but he might have hooked it up wrong or something. I really do not feel like paying to get it benched either. Its a RF 451s. When the radio was smoking could that have burned it?

I took that picture but see nothing burnt.

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

was it fused when you blew up the radio?

the prognosis isn't good, whatever took out the radio could have taken out the amp. once the magic smoke escapes, the outlook dims.

 

[bigcarbigsound 10+ year member]

Yea once the Magic smoke gets out you have to send it back to the Magic amp elvs to get it out back in

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

the magic smoke theory of electronics...almost as important as Murphy's and Ohm's Law.

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Werd, we were taught about the magic smoke first thing in engineering, lol