My amp is getting really HOT!!!

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

Would it help at all to put a cooling fan on it cuz i hear they dont work very good. If so what else could i do.

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[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Cooling fan would be a start....

Jon

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

Alright whre would i be able to get one cuz im like lost when it cmes to cooling down amps

 

[kickerlivinloud 10+ year member]

Just any old fan should work, Just build a frame to fit your amp and you should be good.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

computer CPU fans...cheap, available, but you might have to kludge together some kind of voltage regulator circuit, they usually are designed for strict 12V...

 

[00GREENMACHINE 10+ year member]

as long as its not shutting off dont worry about it. Untill then their is no problem. My Rf sub amp runs hot, but thats a design to pull heat awsy from the circuit board and put it in the heatsink where it should be.

 

[RattlinStratus 10+ year member]

You could turn the music down HAHAHAH who the hell would do that? Get a class D amp they run cool all the time. If not do what Jack Frost said the computer fans are quiet, cheap, and move a good amount of air for their size.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Get a class D amp they run cool all the time

still depends on what amp you're talking about...Rockfords and some JBL's are true BBQs...you can cook steaks on them. Not to say those amps are bad, because they aren't - they just tend to run hot and you have to take that into consideration when installing them (i.e, don't install them inverted, don't block their heat sinks).

My PG Tantrum 1200.1 has a fan built in, and it still gets somewhat hot running at full power. That's normal.

Figure out where your amp usually runs at, so if it gets hotter than normal one day, you know that something may be amiss...

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

Will the CPU fans run off my capacitor like i have my strobe lights?

 

[Exploder 97 10+ year member]

wtf do you have stobe lights for? lol

 

[Phalaxx 10+ year member]

Lol he wants to dance to the disco balls on his mirror... taking power from any battery source is fine... as long as your cpu fan is grounded and properly mounted....

 

[BiaBia 10+ year member]

http://www.ebay.com

Look there for fans, I spent 4x as much shipping them than spending money on the fans. $1 for fans, $10 to ship them both. Ground them, then relay them through the remote wire for power and you're set. Both my fans run off my remote wire and they light up my trunk bright blue alongside my Hifonics amp. Really cool shit.

 

[RattlinStratus 10+ year member]

My MTX is cool sometimes warm, luke warm at most. I have almost 15 volts going to it so it is not starving, but RFs do run hot, so do JLs but they work fine either way.

 

[disturbed_cbr 10+ year member]

Computer fans can be run off the remote wire and just ground them they only draw .15 amps and a little up but move alot of air i have 2 on my Autotek and i have had no problems with my fans.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I think he figured that one out already