Problem with my Tsunami db1100

[TheVanMan 10+ year member]

I got it in the mail yesterday and I hooked it all up this morning. Well, when I turn on the radio, the amplifier will turn on but so would the protection light. The back lit light under tsunami is on but there is no output from the woofer and the protection light is always on (it is always in protection mode). I have it wired to 2ohms right now. I was planning to run it off the infinities until I have enough money for my 15A. Got any suggestion on how to fix this.

I checked all of my wiring and it looks right. I had my old MTX 4250D in there and all I did was change the wiring from 8 to 4 gauge. The ground is still in the same spot.

The amp hasn't produced any output and it is not hot so I don't think it overheated or anything.

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[andy00018 10+ year member]

I got it in the mail yesterday and I hooked it all up this morning. Well, when I turn on the radio, the amplifier will turn on but so would the protection light. The back lit light under tsunami is on but there is no output from the woofer and the protection light is always on (it is always in protection mode). I have it wired to 2ohms right now. I was planning to run it off the infinities until I have enough money for my 15A. Got any suggestion on how to fix this.
I checked all of my wiring and it looks right. I had my old MTX 4250D in there and all I did was change the wiring from 8 to 4 gauge. The ground is still in the same spot.

The amp hasn't produced any output and it is not hot so I don't think it overheated or anything.

Check the speaker wire and make sure its not touching on the box terminals, that happened to me, i didnt realize why the protection was on, after a few minutes of checking voltage and scratching our heads we realized all that was fine, the speaker wire was the problem. Also double check to make sure you wired the driver to 2 ohms.

 

[Qckrun 10+ year member]

Lets take a wild guess... Maybe cause its a 1 ohm amp lol. you cant wire it at 2 omhs lol

 

[abcdefg 10+ year member]

Lets take a wild guess... Maybe cause its a 1 ohm amp lol. you cant wire it at 2 omhs lol

you can too run the amp at 2ohms you just cant run it lower than 1ohm

 

[Qckrun 10+ year member]

you can too run the amp at 2ohms you just cant run it lower than 1ohm

Nevermind, forgot you can go 650x1 @ 2ohms.... but yea check your speaker wire maybe your fuses too

 

[TheVanMan 10+ year member]

well, I got it to work now. I just moved the speaker wire away from the amplifier and adjusted the gain and freqency. It's a great amp, the sound is clean and it's pretty powerful. I can't wait to run it at 1ohm with the 15A. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[snafu2dj]

Good luck getting that 1100d to be stable at 1 ohm. I have the same amp and it shuts down immediately at 1 ohm. Even when I hook it up at 2 ohms, occasionally it'll still go into protection. I never understood why. My voltage is good, the amp doesn't get warm, and the dust caps on my Image Dynamic SPL's are still cool. Usually it happens after about 15-20 min. of moderate use (moderate meaning not even at a high volume). It shuts for afew seconds and comes back for a few and so on until I turn the volume way down.

 

[snafu2dj]

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[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

here's my sig

Ill buy it from you...

 

[TheVanMan 10+ year member]

Yea, this thread is old. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

I sold that amp last year but I got it to work fine even at 1ohm. It wasn't a bad amp. It was my first try at a amp install by myself and I didn't put the cables right. I took them out and fixed it and it worked fine.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Yea, this thread is old. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

x2..........

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

Good luck getting that 1100d to be stable at 1 ohm. I have the same amp and it shuts down immediately at 1 ohm. Even when I hook it up at 2 ohms, occasionally it'll still go into protection. I never understood why. My voltage is good, the amp doesn't get warm, and the dust caps on my Image Dynamic SPL's are still cool. Usually it happens after about 15-20 min. of moderate use (moderate meaning not even at a high volume). It shuts for afew seconds and comes back for a few and so on until I turn the volume way down.

Seems like this dude went around flamming all the db1100 threads.

 

[TheVanMan 10+ year member]

Aparrently, not only do we have to tell the newbs to use the search button, we seem to have to tell them how not to use it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif