son of a *****

[PsychoTheRapist 5,000+ posts]

Your story really doesn't make any sense. So let's try this, during your install of the wires....
1. Were the ground wires going into the amp touching a ground?

2. were the power wires connected to the battery?

3. were all the batteries grounded?

4. did you put the wires in the right spots?

I've gathered that the batts were not grounded to teh frame

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

guess we were wronng //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

its very, very, VERY easy to use a different IP to register, and use this site without anyone being none the wiser, except catching you on your similarities through posts.

 

[DSMW 10+ year member]

I've gathered that the batts were not grounded to teh frame

ok so heres a question then. say batts werent grounded to the frame. postive terminal on front batt was still hooked up to back batts. that throws the front batt into the scheme now so the circuit travels all the way up there looking for a ground, it cant find it, since i disconnected that terminal. this would cause the allen wrench to ground out on the frame of the maxximus correct? but why wudnt it have done it with the previous 3 inputs i put the wires into? yes the last one was a power so turning that wrench into the case, completed the circuit and could have grounded out the amp, correct?

 

[DSMW 10+ year member]

anyone?

 

[Grinder1989 5,000+ posts]

answer my questions and I can help //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[DSMW 10+ year member]

Your story really doesn't make any sense. So let's try this, during your install of the wires....
1. Were the ground wires going into the amp touching a ground?

2. were the power wires connected to the battery?

3. were all the batteries grounded?

4. did you put the wires in the right spots?

the wires going into the amp, the ground ones, were connected to negative top posts only on back batts, cause ground runs coming from front batt to back ones had been disconnected

yes, i have four batts in back, and the runs from front batt were connected to the batteries

none of the batteries were grounded as i came to this conclusion a bit ago, kinda frustrated me i was in such a hurry i disconnected the front ground and disconnected it from the back, leaving no ground loop and leaving the circuit open.

wires were in right spot.

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

you have to many ****in batteries.

 

[Mr. C 10+ year member]

Same thing happened to my friend with his 4 Colossus amps. Each one was wired up power, remote, and ground. Hooked up the front positive at the battery and all was good. Hooked up all the positives at the six batts in the back and all was good. Grounded the front batt and all good. Added the grounds for the rear batts (grounded to the frame) one by one and two of the four started smoking. Smoked almost all the mosfets on one side of both of the amps.

Got them replaced by the dealer. All four amps hooked up and banging away on 4 DD9915's and then one by one, the amps started smoking again. Same mosfets on the same side that the previous ones failed on. Three amps gone. Dealer replaces all four amps and he ended up selling them all. Still have yet to figure out how that happened.

 

[12voltz+- 10+ year member]

well not sure if this helps but...... if you had the amp hooked up for a while then unhooked it the amp still has some stored energy inside it that the caps are holding..... so even if there wasnt any power going to the amp .... and the wire from the amp touched you still could short the amp out and fry shit ......

 

[pioneerpimp 5,000+ posts]

what do the mosfets do?

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

you have to many ****in batteries.

agreed.

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

how do you have all those batteries wired?

 

[pioneerpimp 5,000+ posts]

parallel