Well that was a fun 20 minutes... Think I blew the 1100d5

[Kold_Killa 10+ year member]

Finally got everything installed... The RE 10, the CDTs (again), and the 1100d5... Sounded great... Needed to mess with a few settings, but really sounded decent for what it is...

Anywho, I was rolling to my buddies' house and all of a sudden it just all cut off... Got to their house, checked the main fuse... good... Checked my ground and power and probed the remote with a dmm... good... RCAs... good...

After looking around, I think I figured out what happened. On these modle directed amps their gains and fq settings and everything are on top of the amp behind a window... I simply left the window off, not really thinking it was a big deal.... Well what I failed to realize is that the window also holds down a metal plate!! What it looks like happened was that the metal plate bounced up slightly and actually slid into the amp a tiny bit.... Without takin off the cover I am assuming it bridged something that wasn't supposed to be bridged and shorted out the amp... Only logical explination I have come up with... I'm going to bust it open tomorrow and see if I am right....

I guess the reason I post this is in hopes that I may have overlooked something and this is not the problem... And it did help a little to vent my stupid mistake.

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[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I think those amps were made to blow out, Mine lasted about 15 minutes then died...

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

I'm gonna guess gains were too high and nothign to do with that metal plate.

 

[andytb 10+ year member]

maybe you are cursed

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

protect light on?

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

DEI made, enough said

 

[Kold_Killa 10+ year member]

I'm gonna guess gains were too high and nothign to do with that metal plate.

I'm gunna guess you're very wrong!!!!! Gains were extremely low as I just installed this....

As for protect light, nope... nothing....

As for being cursed... I'm beginning to think so!

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Sucks man, sorry to hear that. Was the amp way hot after it cut out?

 

[Kold_Killa 10+ year member]

Not that hot really... I mean warmer than the other D-class amps I've owned recently, but for an ab amp it wasn't very warm... I just need to bust the case open and look at the internals and see what's up....

 

[Kold_Killa 10+ year member]

Well I think this is the first time that I am glad I am an idiot. Upon physically inspecting the fuse it looked fine... I then measured across it and got 0 volts, so I thought all was good... Well what I failed to do then was actually put it in the holder and measure across the holder!!!! I was getting crazy off the wall numbers and not 0!!! Then measure in front of the fuse (and to a ground) and got a a wonderful 12 volts, but then behind it I got some crappy 9volts... Bought a new fuse and now all is good!!

Moral of the story... When a fuse looks fine, it may not be!!! I guess measuring across a fuse without any current going through it is a little difficult to determine if the fuse is good or not... Either way, got it sounding pretty nice!!!!

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Yeah if your using AGU ...glass fuses they can really fool you...I think they get hot and become unsoldered or something...I've seen many that have done that....In fact a friend stopped by last week with the exact same prob...they said they had been going 2 months without music...thought their amp was bad...It was the fuse...lol It looked perfect...

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

cool beans

 

[Kold_Killa 10+ year member]

Yeah if your using AGU ...glass fuses they can really fool you...I think they get hot and become unsoldered or something...I've seen many that have done that....In fact a friend stopped by last week with the exact same prob...they said they had been going 2 months without music...thought their amp was bad...It was the fuse...lol It looked perfect...

Yea... I went a little while with just my rear stock speakers!!! One is blown... granted I listened to a lot of talk radio!!! Now the question is L_CRX, why didn't you tell me this sooner!!! haha

And Jman... You **** right cool beans!!!