Reason Why My Amp Went Up In Smoke?

[sri3850341]

i vote faulty wiring...alllthough a budget oriented amp they are still pretty solid if you dont abuse them..

[jmitch]

i have to say faulty wiring sumwhere in the set up but just take it sumwhere and let them look at it and they possibly tell what went wrong.

[lanman31337]

I bet if you crack it open most of your fets are gone. I've had a few hifonics brutus amps do that to me.

[alvitae]

^^^ so since u ran tons of amps retartedly they should all be able to take it?

I had a 1958 mote carlo and rammed it into a wall and it still ran, think i should do the same with my cobalt?

are you sure u wired the sub correctly? i could be wrong but i just did all the coil configurations for a single sub in both dual and quad 4,2,1 and not one could be wired at 2 and 1(1.4/.7)

so if it was actually at 1.4 before it was either... dual 4 so the only other rewire would be 8, dual 1(.7) able to be .5(.35), quad 2 able to be .5(.35) and 8

Actually what i said was I haven't had many amps, Not that I had tons. And actually I do think a 1 ohm stable amp should play at .7 ohms if it isn't flea market quality. I don't think that is why his amp blew up.

[tequila]

how could box rise make it over 1ohms when the sub wasnt even playing in the first place? im just wondering.

imo the amp blew cause of going below 1ohms.

[Basshead08]

noob+crappy equipment= poof!

[wL<3bass]

imo the amp blew cause of going below 1ohms.

You do relize that when you wire a sub to 1ohm its actaully .7ohm right.....he didn't go below 1ohm.....

1ohm coils = .7

2ohm coils = 1.4

[emperorjj1]

Actually what i said was I haven't had many amps, Not that I had tons. And actually I do think a 1 ohm stable amp should play at .7 ohms if it isn't flea market quality. I don't think that is why his amp blew up.

i agree with you on that part a 1 ohm amp should be able to play 1 ohms nominal (.7ohm is 1ohm nominal as is 1.4 2 ohms nominal) but not half an ohm.

i still have yet to see a wiring configuration for a single sub that can be both 2 and 1 ohms

[Boon]

I have an awfully sneaky feeling that the sub is a Dual 1 and he had it wired down to 0.5 ohms... if you measure a 0.5 ohm load with a multimeter you'll often get around 0.7 ohms read because of the resistance of your test leads combined with inaccuracy of most multimeters when reading that low.

My Fluke reads a 0.5 ohm load as 0.7 ohms, I know my test leads have 0.2 ohms of resistance

[bennett15]

sub is D2 when i put the leads of the dmm in the sub

its reads 2.0 on each then if i wire it up to 2 ohm and

put the dmm leads on the sub it reads 1.8? then when i put

the leads of the dmm on the wires going to the amp i get a 1.4 reading.

if i do the same but to 1 ohm then check wire going to amp with dmm it reads

.7? sub is still sitting at 2.0 at each coil so its fine.