thats dead wrong bro. no offense.
this is a mono amp (1 channel). what you see as 2 ch is just the ease of hooking up more than one sub (the 2 +'s = 1 + inside...ect). this is a mono amp stable at 2 ohms so something else had to happen.
I know its not a 2 channel amp. I used the term stereo and mono to simplify what I was trying to say. The Online manual states it the same way "Thunder amplifiers are not recommended for loads below 2 ohms stereo or 4 ohms bridged".
I am currently running an old Earthquake Magma 12 I've had for years. It is dual 3.3 ohm VC. It is wired parallel inside the box. I have 2 wires coming out of the box. The 2 wires carry a 1.65 ohm load.
The amp has 2 sets of speaker terminals. I will call them term 1 and term 2. I first wired my speaker wires(+ and-) to term 1. This didn't have any power at all. It sounded like 20 watts maybe.
Not knowing anything about this amp (as stated before). I then "bridged" the amp. (+ speaker wire to + of term 1) and (- speaker wire to - of term 2) . The power was much better it sounded close to my Soundstream Reference 700.
My car was running (well over 14 volts), low gain setting, half volume if that on the head unit.
I was in the car for about 20 minutes at low volume just getting a feel for the amp and pooof it was gone.
I'm sure my wiring had most to do with it. But why didn't the amp have any balls when I had it hooked to term 1?
That compression button looks to be strictly for protection of your speaker. Either way I was not pushing the amp anywhere close to clipping. So I doubt that had anything to do with it.
jco1385, I appreiciate your help. I'm not trying to sound like a smartass toward you. But some of these people acting like I'm an idiot isn't cool. I was very knowledgeable with car stereos at one time, but that was over 10 years ago. Ive never worked with an amp configured like this before.