whoa...tsunami 1800 amp

[cFlatt 10+ year member]

well me and my friends just got finish all the wiring and basically finished the box. I have 2 magnum d2's and the tsunami 1800, we hooked everything up double checked all the wiring evrything was fine and we turned on the car to set the gains so i started it, and the amp turned on and same with the isolator to hook up my yellow top. The amp turned on with no problem we started to set them and like 30sec into it all of a sudden sparks were flying out of and it was smoking like crazy, we dont even know what happened all the wiring were good we wired it parallel so that was fine........

anyone got any suggestions why this happened? hopefully my warranty will cover this but i cant get hold of elemental design cause there closed, so please so one help!

thanks

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[awalbert88 10+ year member]

What ohm load did you feed the amp? The subs should be wired to a 4ohm load per channel (both coils per sub in series). You should basically have two of these:

If you did it in parallel, that would have given the amp a 1ohm load per channel, which would most definately fry that Tsunami.

 

[maniackilla 10+ year member]

if a tsunami amp fries within 30 seconds at 1ohm then they have some serious work to do, even a pyle amp can run 30 mins at 1ohm. the one i got from my friend runs for almost 2 hrs b4 cutton off with a 1ohm load per channel.

i thought trunami would run 1ohm anyways? anyways, make sure your ground/power wire didnt coem loose or anything b/c if your power wire touches the amp then you could cause a short and soem sparks. does it work now or have you touched it since then?

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

if a tsunami amp fries within 30 seconds at 1ohm then they have some serious work to do, even a pyle amp can run 30 mins at 1ohm. the one i got from my friend runs for almost 2 hrs b4 cutton off with a 1ohm load per channel.
i thought trunami would run 1ohm anyways? anyways, make sure your ground/power wire didnt coem loose or anything b/c if your power wire touches the amp then you could cause a short and soem sparks. does it work now or have you touched it since then?

Tsunami 1100 - 1 ohm stable

Tsunami 1800 - 2 ohm stable

 

[Wonderbread 5,000+ posts]

I hope you didn't wire a pair of D2's in parallel... that would give the 1800d a .5 ohm load...

that would most certainly FRY it...

and if that's what happened... you can kiss your warranty goodbye... hope you have enough to buy a new amp...

 

[Bavarian3 10+ year member]

ouch....thats gotta hurt

 

[Wonderbread 5,000+ posts]

ya, ti would be really unfortunate if someone ruined a nice amplifier by not knowing what was going on...

 

[cFlatt 10+ year member]

my mistake i meant series parallel, well we just wired my friends jbl 1200.1 to my subs and no problems at all i am using it until i get my tsunami back, sorry about the mistake

 

[PowerusMaximus]

Dont it have an automatic fuse for that kind of things?