someone get on aim and talk with me really quick

[sampson 10+ year member]

Hey can someone get on aim and send me a message really quick, I have an amp question, I'm pretty curious how something happened. My aol name is avoidingtheend. Please get on and send me a message. Thanks-Sampson

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[SAG3 5,000+ posts]

coulda just posted it

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

thats shitty news sampson how everything works out and g/l

 

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

dont lie youre lonely

 

[sampson 10+ year member]

Ok heres the deal, picked up a jbl bp 1200.1 for a friend of mine from a guy at car toys, supposedly ran it for like 3-5 months. Anyway, installed it in my car, ran it for like 3 hours on my RE SE XXX 12 on the way home. Ran great didn't get hot, all was well. Got home, installed in a buddies Prelude. He ran it for a week, on 8 gauge wire. I know I know bad shit, but I got him convinced to get at least 4. So he came back today I just ran fresh 4 gauge for him, and then when I put the fuse back in the fuse holder the amp started pouring out smoke b4 it even got turned on. SO wtf?

I talked to someone on here, and he said maybe it was an internal short in the car. I talked to a friend of mine and he said that the subs might be wired wrong. The subs were fosgate T1 12's, and I think they might be wired really weird. I check the output and they were 1 ohm each. So I wired them togeather and they stayed at 1 ohm. Coudl that be the cause, I thought when you wired them togeather you were supposed to either get a reading of like .5 ohm, or a reading of 2 ohms? I didn't think it was supposed to stay at 1 ohm. Can you manage to screw up an amp by wiring subs in a weird way??? I don't know how exactly as I haven't opened up the box, but I'll let you know when I find out. Another weird thing to add is that he had these subs on his sony xplode wired seperate one to each channel of the xplode and it ran fine for him for 8 months. I tried hooking them up on the jbl like that and it would switch into the red light mode (protect) after a few seconds. Then i wired them togeather and it worked fine on the jbl.

Anyway any help or ideas would be great on this. Also the fuse on the power wire never blew out (100 amp) , the power wire isn't grounded, I tried 3 different grounding spots, inlcuding a bolt that Honda was using for a ground on the negative wire and it didn't change anything??? Thanks a lot for any help-Sampson

Let me know what you think, and feel free to chat with me on aim, thanks guys-Sampson

 

[neonrt 10+ year member]

sounds like the negative, and positive wires were touching somewhere. or possiby hooked up to the wrong locations on the Amp. in any case its shitty news.

 

[sampson 10+ year member]

thanks for the thought, but the connections were good and not touching, and they were definitely in the right locations. I have installed this exact amp several times before. (Also if the connections were touching the power wire fuse would have blown, and it is still fine) Thanks for the thought though.

 

[sampson 10+ year member]

bump

 

[K&c Customs 10+ year member]

on the fuse holder.. put some aluminum foil from one side to the other.. the fuse might of losed contact on one side... or just change the fuse on the inline fuse holder

 

[sampson 10+ year member]

on the fuse holder.. put some aluminum foil from one side to the other.. the fuse might of losed contact on one side... or just change the fuse on the inline fuse holder

Not sure I understand what you mean. The inline fuse holder on the power wire works fine as the power was reaching the amp easily. I tested it with a voltmeter first and it fried the amp so it is working fine. Also the fuse in the in line fuse holder did not blow up (100 amp), and neither did the fuses on the amp. They are all still in tact, and look fine to me. It just blows my mind that the fuses on the amp didn't blow and save the amp from dying on me. I thought that was the whole purpose of a fuse, was to prevent something like this from happening. So why didn't the amp fuses or the power wire fuses blow up???? Man this is driving me crazy. Anybody have any ideas?