Red protect light on Skar 1500.1

[ten_ton_bass 10+ year member]

I've had the Skar 1500.1 sitting in my trunk with no subs hooked up to it for some time now.

I have recently thought about selling it but when I noticed the blue light on my bass knob was not lighting up when I started the car so I went and checked the amp and the red "protect" light is on.

Is the amp fried? I don't see any external fuses to check, are they internal? Did the positive and negative speaker wires touch and cause it?

Confused here. I barely used the thing.

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[Side Show 10+ year member]

does the amp smell burnt?

 

[98GCLimited 10+ year member]

If you have speaker wires coming out of the amp and not hooked up to terminals on a box or something and they touched together pos n neg, ya that can blow the amp since it is effectively or basically a 0 ohm load when the wires touch and short.

 

[ten_ton_bass 10+ year member]

Doesn't smell burnt, but its very possible the wires touched. ****.

 

[jar1zx 10+ year member]

You left your amp hooked up to power with speaker wires hooked up when you took subs out? And wonder if your amp is broke?

Wow! Most likely it's cooked

 

[jar1zx 10+ year member]

I'm not going to flame ya because that's probably scars instructions on how to take subs out

 

[ten_ton_bass 10+ year member]

Yeah I screwed the pooch on this one. What's it worth blown, a nice boat anchor?

 

[SounDrive Pro Seller]

Yeah I screwed the pooch on this one. What's it worth blown, a nice boat anchor?

Pretty much. Somebody could probably fix it but I'm not sure if it would be worth it

 

[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

Did you try unhooking the wires and just hooking up the power, remote, and ground and retest?

 

[-BenBen- 10+ year member]

https://www.facebook.com/tim.webb.39794 tim will take care of you..

 

[slammedincouch 10+ year member]

Just do what Kevin does- sell it as B-Stock...

 

[Side Show 10+ year member]

take it out and post some gut pics