problem with amp, protection light

[shiver 10+ year member]

I'm completely boggled with this problem i'm having. My system has been fine for about a year now, and the other day i was driving around and my subs cut out. The amp went into protection. I really have no clue whats wrong with it. I've checked all my connections, my ground seems good, i'm getting power from the battery. The only thing i notice now, I turn the truck on and the amp has the green power light, if i turn up the level on the amp setting, it goes right into protection. Then if I take the RCA Cables out, back to green again, could my RCA's have gone bad? I'm going out of my mind here with no bass. Also my amp is a Planet Audio Rem 2400 800 watt amp. Thanks.

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[birsling 10+ year member]

Trying to help you, even though I am unsure on protection in a Planet Audio. I had an Onkyo home theatre amp that went to protection due to an internal short. I hope that is not your problem, but you may want to have your amp serviced, before you go nuts with re-wiring etc. Good luck

 

[shiver 10+ year member]

crap, i forgot to mention that i put another amp in its place, and that it went into protection. i dont think its the ground, because its been fine for over a year, so im leaning towards the rca cables, could that even be a possibility? thanks again

 

[bigwheel15 10+ year member]

Well get or borrow a pair of RCAs that you know are good and hook them up and let us know if that fixed it or not.

Hope this helps.