Ways to ruin an amp???

[tr10av 10+ year member]

Can someone give me a list of things that would make an amp go into and stay in protect mode? I sold someone my amp that worked perfectly when I took it out of my car and now they just brought it back saying that it automatically goes into protect mode. Is it possible that while installing the amp he messed up the wires or something and ruined it?

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[NightDrifter05 10+ year member]

Theres alot that could have happened. He may have crossed up the hot wire and ground wire or he could have wired the subwoofer to a ohm load to low for the amp and fried it.

 

[ampjunkielikeme 10+ year member]

go hook it back up in your ride to see if it goes into protect..............

if your buddy has a ground that is not good ,with the rca's plugged into the amp. it will make the amp go into protect.....

 

[PRO2 10+ year member]

Can someone give me a list of things that would make an amp go into and stay in protect mode? I sold someone my amp that worked perfectly when I took it out of my car and now they just brought it back saying that it automatically goes into protect mode. Is it possible that while installing the amp he messed up the wires or something and ruined it?

Absolutely possible, however most amplifiers on the market today have built-in protection to save the amp should the speaker leads short.

Hook up Batt. power, ground, and remote turn on to the amp, if the protection light comes on . . . the amp is damaged . . . if not, he's has a bad speaker, shorted speaker wire, wrong ohm load, or wrong wiring.

 

[alex95sl2 10+ year member]

tell the guy to tell u exaclty what he did and it wil be easy to find the problem