Those of you with Viper1200.1's

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

Have these amps been known to overheat easily? does yours?

I've had mine a little over a month right now, never had any problems. But today I was driving a lot and after about an hour and a half of listening to music at moderate volume, it went into protect. Surely enough this thing was smokin hot.

Granted, it was almost 90 degrees outside today, and I do have it inside an enclosed tire well with another powerful amp that gets hot as well. But I'm only running the amp at 4 ohms (~450 watts).

Is it normal for an amp to go into thermal protect under these conditions? Should I be worried about damaging my amp if it happens a few times?

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[brandontw 10+ year member]

Why not ventalate it a bit?

 

[Hook Me Up 10+ year member]

get a fan kit and hook it up, i had to do that with my old amp, works like a charm

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

a fan should be used if the amp is there

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

Why not ventalate it a bit?

http://www.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=114285

Check out how I have everything installed... The amp rack is in a wheel well with the box on top of it. I could move the sub box closer toward me, but it just sounds better when its at the very back of the car.

Think thats the reason its overheating? The tire well itself isnt very hot when I open it, just the amp. The tire well is about the same temp it is everywhere else in the car.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

how could I hook up fans there? I'd need a pair of intake fans and exhaust fans... and I don't really want to cut holes in the wheel well cover to do that.

any ideas?

 

[IshbOO 10+ year member]

i thought my viper was a peice of shit, my new amp owns.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

i thought my viper was a peice of shit, my new amp owns.

care to elaborate a little?

 

[SBLAZER]

shouldve gotten an orion, wouldnt ave these probs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif i'd unhook it, may go into protect and never come out. warranty?refurb?

 

[btmorris972 10+ year member]

i bought a refurb viper from ikesound. i tried mounting it on top of my sub box but it was the middle of the summer and hot as hell in dallas. when mounted on top of the box it would go into protect mode. i moved the amp to the back of the box and it hasent gone into protect once in the last 5 weeks.

btw mine is wired to 2 ohm.

does anyone out there have problems wiring this amp to 1 ohm load??

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

Yes, could be a problem having it inside the sealed compartment, especially with another amp right next to it. I had one and I thought it was great. It only went into protect once and that was when the pwr and grnd touched //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif

In Sicily, the summers were around 120-125, and there was always a fire going somewhere, so the internal temps of my Tahoe would get pretty effin toasty. Amp never went into thermal protect though and base was about a 45min drive away.

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

And, it was a refurbished item from TeamCSW on eBay.

 

[myn 10+ year member]

Yes, could be a problem having it inside the sealed compartment, especially with another amp right next to it. I had one and I thought it was great. It only went into protect once and that was when the pwr and grnd touched //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif
In Sicily, the summers were around 120-125, and there was always a fire going somewhere, so the internal temps of my Tahoe would get pretty effin toasty. Amp never went into thermal protect though and base was about a 45min drive away.

You running your Viper 1200 at at 2 ohms or 1 ohm?

 

[pcnbaseball44 10+ year member]

i thought they werent supposed to be run at 1 ohm?

 

[myn 10+ year member]

i thought they werent supposed to be run at 1 ohm?

The manual says it's stable at 1ohm.

Anyone else got anything to say about the 1 ohm stability? I'm interested in knowing what this really does.