What would cause an amp not to come out of the "protect" mode?

[grampi 10+ year member]

As part of my seemingly never ending saga of trying to get my audio system up and running but never being able to, I discovered my amp is in the "protect" mode. When I got my 9887 back from repairs yesterday I decided to install it today. The first step was to set my amp gains. I disconnected my sub output speaker leads and turned both amp gains all the way down. I have a Kicker KX 600.4 and on the end of the chassis it has a green power light, and a red protect light. The red protect light is on and can't figure out why. I checked my input and remote turn-on voltages, and I also checked my speaker leads for my comps to check for shorts. Everything checked out fine and can't see any reason at all for the amp to be in the protect mode......unless there's a problem with the amp. Do any of you have ideas as to why this thing would be stuck in protect?

I was looking for an excuse to buy a more powerful amp anyway and this was the ticket. I found a slightly used Alpine MRV-F545 of ebay for $190 so I bought it. I'm just wondering if it would be worth my while to have this Kicker amp repaired. I probably won't use this amp again, but I suppose you never know. I never hurts to have spare audio gear laying around just for a rainy day. Are there any reputable amp repair places? I wonder if I could send it back to Kicker for repair?

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[Platinumxpimp 10+ year member]

you can contact db-r for repairs, if your amp was bought from an authorized dealer i think you can send it to them for repairs

 

[grampi 10+ year member]

you can contact db-r for repairs, if your amp was bought from an authorized dealer i think you can send it to them for repairs

I bought it from an unauthorized dealer, but it wouldn't matter anyway because the amp is over 5 years old. Who is db-r?

 

[Grinder1989 5,000+ posts]

http://www.db-r.com He repairs amps. Cool guy, I talked to him about repairing my amps. I'll be sending them this summer.