Need help, keep blowing fuses...

[MTXman 10+ year member]

Well about a week ago, my amp just shut off, and it started smelling like smoke.

So I said.. well, that's no good. Pulled over, and pulled all of the 30 amp fuses out, what do you know, 3 out of the 4 are blown.

So today I replaced all 4 fuses with four new 30's, thinking this would solve the problem. I turn on my car, hear a huge pop, so I shut off the car. What do you know? The amp is smoking like hell near the fuses and where the power/ground/remote wire hooks into.

Help?!

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[morgans432 10+ year member]

send it in for repair it is done

 

[MTXman 10+ year member]

Yeah, I thought that might be the solution to this problem.

Who's that guy on here that repairs them for 100 bucks, I searched but I couldn't find him.

 

[J3M Concepts 10+ year member]

Disconnect everything....

Replace the fuses...

Reconnect the +/-/Rem only...

See if it turns on...

If fine... Plug in RCAs.... If not, your amp is shot

If fine.... Hook up 1st Speaker.... If not, then something's ****ed with your RCAs

If fine.... Hook Up Second Speaker... If not, you have a short in that speaker

If fine... There was a short somewhere that you have resolved... If not, then you have a short in that speaker

 

[MTXman 10+ year member]

Thanks J3M, to what extent do I need to disconnect everything? Just everything from the amp right?

What if the amps internals is what's blowing the fuses but it still turns on?

 

[thegreatestpenn 5,000+ posts]

I don't even think its worth doing the testing, it sounds like the power supply is blown and a ton of fets with it