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Smoked my AMP :( with Pics of the inside!


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Im so confused here and an asking the experts for some help.

Setup: 1/0 Knu Kol all around. Copper soldered lugs, 250 in line AGL. Grounds preped, but not ideal due to unibody design.

SAE 1200Dv2 refurb from a few years old. (old setup: 2x SA12s D4 wired @1ohm, mechman, xspower)

New/temp: 1x SA 12 D4 @ 2ohm on the SAE tuned @35v at max listening volume. (Was previously set with a DD1 and CC1? by a fellow forums member for a 1ohm load, I backed it down from that) Best I could do for a quick install. Stock crappy battery and alt, but the carge and voltages were fine (AFAIK, even still, I bought this AMP for the sole purpose it did rated power at 12.6v and not 14.4) Home built box I found online. 1.75cft etc.., I know it was small, but thats another story....

So, I have installed alot of systems of my own and this is a first. been banging away for 2 weeks now in the new car I inherited with 0 issues, when on the way home tonight after a good beat session, I lost AMP power. All 5 30A fuses in the amp blew. I Figured it was a rare fluke of some kind, went and got 5 more, put them in, pop instantly. So, by now Im thinking WTF is happening...... I think ok, popping fuses means a short somewhere or lose ground. I rip the ground out, clean it the best I could in a random parking lot, put it back in, get the MM out, 0.001 resistance from lug to end of wire, I'm thinking ok great, problem solved....... Go get 1 more round of fuses, make sure they go in nice and perfect, connect everything at the battery, touch the ground to connect.... POOF- Huge cloud out of the amp. At this point.... I know its toast. Edit: It was bone cold poping these fuses, no heat in the slightest.

What could cause this when everything was working perfect? don't even know where to start.... If there was a short in the pos+ lead, that SHOULD have popped the in line AGL yes? Or not since it was fused at 100 amps higher.... Maybe a body panel cut into the wire jacket on the ride home? I dont even know....

Sad and bass-less.... again.... :/

Edit: Since I figure its junk, I took it apart to see what it looked like.... Keep in mind this is also a refurb. when I got it: Here we go!

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5 of these square things look to be the cause of the smoke, others look ok.

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I guess this was a repair before I got it lol

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This even worth trying to have fixed?

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Wait, was this issue in anew car? Or the same car u have been using with the 2x12 Setup? If it's a new car were u using the same head unit? I'm thinking if not ur voltage could have been way off. But until I know more details I'm just shooting ideas out my ass.

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Holy shit that is the most hacked repair job I've ever seen.

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I've opened up one or two amps and the soldering on the inside looked nowhere near that bad. No offense but I have seen kids in highschool do a better job. I know OP you didnt solder it, just saying the repair place didnt do a good job.

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Well..... I got it like this, like I said, it was a refurb, from the place that sells refurbs. Not going to name drop, but yea....

Same equipment, just a new car I inherited. Oh, new HU though. 4000NEX. Only thing that was different. Same wires, same amp, and sub. (Could only fit 1 in the trunk while I gathered funds to have a real custom box designed for this car. Figured I could put my old equipment I had in the basement in this for awhile till I could afford to "do it up" something to "just get me bumping"

Again, I never did big systems, but have done abit over the years from MTX thunder 5000's to sundown era... Weird thing is, amp smoked and didnt pop the fuses on the last go. Still not sure why this happened. I still dont think a short in the pos+ wire woulda caused this honestly....

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