my amp sparked, smoked, but still works. why?

[wesl56 10+ year member]

not negitive, always the power wire by the battery, it you disconnect the negitive you still have power back there, and everything is a ground in a car pretty much. shitty explanation but yea always the power

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[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

ok well ive decided to go ahead and buy the Eclipse EA2000 just incase my PA4212 ends up blowing. thanks for the help? i guess? lol

 

[wesl56 10+ year member]

ok well ive decided to go ahead and buy the Eclipse EA2000 just incase my PA4212 ends up blowing. thanks for the help? i guess? lol

if u got the spare money around, fuck it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

if u got the spare money around, fuck it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

ya. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif its only 60 x 2 @ 4ohm. my speakers are 75w RMS. it should still get fairly loud, right? unless its underrated at all. even now with the amp i have, which is rated 130 x 2 @ 4ohm, i have my gain set to probly 80-85. they sound good, but dont get very loud.

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

or how about the DEI - Directed Audio A502. i know directed MADE good amps, i havent tried any of theyre newer stuff. which would u suggest? the eclipse, or the directed?

 

[tru_44 10+ year member]

eclipse

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

i guess i blew something inmy rca's. only the left side plays now. if i switch the rca's around, the right side plays. never at the same time. so i ordered the EA2000 eclipse. wait time FTL. no music until it gets here //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

you'll survive

 

[Jep772 10+ year member]

i was tightening the connection on my power to the amp, and my screwdriver hit the amp. massive sparks, the amp smoked for a few minutes. but it still plays like nothing happened. why is this?

seems like maybe you might mess w/ it too much. not cause the 10 posts a day about a tech issue or anything, just an observation

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

not negitive, always the power wire by the battery, it you disconnect the negitive you still have power back there, and everything is a ground in a car pretty much. shitty explanation but yea always the power

the hell is you smokin tonite?

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

seems like maybe you might mess w/ it too much. not cause the 10 posts a day about a tech issue or anything, just an observation

i barely ever mess with it. i ask questions to learn, incase i NEED to mess with something.

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

ya if you were screwing the positive terminal screw and it touches the chasis of the aqmp (which is negative) then it'd ground out and cause "massive" sparks.

fortunitly you're amp should be ok as long as you dont do that again. you can ussually do that a few times before the amp eventualyl shorts and and dies. lucky for you there's probly some sort of protection circuit for reverse polarity that saves your amp the first few times you do that. just be careful man

now i've also had an amp smoke while playing and it kept playing for a logn time after. eventually i opened it up and found that a rectifier on the board smoked. amp still played just fine //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif it was an mtx 1501d //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif solid amp

 

[Loud01Blazer 10+ year member]

yeah, i had an hk4000d go up in smoke one time. It still worked fine for about 2 months. It since then caught on fire, and is now out of commision (wasn't paying attention to my volt-meter)

 

[Loud01Blazer 10+ year member]

yeah, i had an hk4000d go up in smoke one time. It still worked fine for about 2 months. It since then caught on fire, and is now out of commision (wasn't paying attention to my volt-meter)

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

well now i noticed, from time to time, my speakers turn of. sometimes the left side goes out, sometimes the right side. sometimes they both play. could this be the amp? when the left side is out, and i switch my rca's around, it plays, but then the right side stops playing. bad RCA's, or is this the effects of the amp shorting out?