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Location of power amp main fuse
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<blockquote data-quote="n2audio" data-source="post: 109667" data-attributes="member: 540940"><p>A lot of higher priced amps have circuits built in for current protection (like mine). Power down, they reset. More times than not, if you have an amp with on board fuses, and you do something that pops one, your amp just went up in smoke, but possibly saved your car from doing the same.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No, not what I'm saying.</p><p></p><p>Not an applicable analogy anyway. If you have a bad ground the current path is restricted -- Less current, less chance of power problems, just less output from the amp.</p><p></p><p>However, if that wire gets grounded before the amp(cut - comes in contact with chassis) then yes, the amp will be fine because all the current that will flow through the wire -- in this case, all the current the battery can put out -- will be trying to flow through the wire directly into the car's chassis. The amp will never know it happened, effectively there is no circuit beyond the point of grounding. This is the dreaded situation that will turn the pwr wire into a heating element and likely cause a major car fire.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you say so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="n2audio, post: 109667, member: 540940"] A lot of higher priced amps have circuits built in for current protection (like mine). Power down, they reset. More times than not, if you have an amp with on board fuses, and you do something that pops one, your amp just went up in smoke, but possibly saved your car from doing the same. No, not what I'm saying. Not an applicable analogy anyway. If you have a bad ground the current path is restricted -- Less current, less chance of power problems, just less output from the amp. However, if that wire gets grounded before the amp(cut - comes in contact with chassis) then yes, the amp will be fine because all the current that will flow through the wire -- in this case, all the current the battery can put out -- will be trying to flow through the wire directly into the car's chassis. The amp will never know it happened, effectively there is no circuit beyond the point of grounding. This is the dreaded situation that will turn the pwr wire into a heating element and likely cause a major car fire. If you say so. [/QUOTE]
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