How To Properly Fuse Amps and Rear Batteries

[dereileak]

Some elevator music while I wait on TheyDontWantMusic 's Video.

lol

[ISO]

if you really want I'll do a test and video it to show that the rear fusing won't blow any faster than the front, and its just silly to think it would!

thats not how electricity works! lol

I'm loving the technical response you got from Kicker... they're just giving an answer with no real idea just like ISO has been.

I don't understand why you keep saying this considering everything I have written about I have witnessed first hand.

So I wasn't driving down the highway when one of my capacitors blew up that was inside my amp?

It didn't take out the built in fuses while I was driving down the highway when the cap blew, one faulty little cap, it blew,I removed the blown cap, Kicker sent me a new one and I soldered it in and the amp has worked great ever since.

OR

The Sundown amp, after 40 minutes it would blow its fuses. There turned out to be an issue with the power supply.

In both cases the built in fuses blew and because of that both amps were salvageable. If they would not have had built in fussing when they acted up how much damage would have occurred before the main fuse 17 feet away would have blown?

Would I have been able to fix the amps if there was no built in fusing?

No I doubt it!

What ever was causing the fuses to blow could have been an on going electrical issue that would have kept blowing out section after section of the amplifier until it did blow up a section that controlled the electricity that flows through the amp causing more and more damage.

But see since you lack real world experience and knowledge of how electricity works you were not able to comprehend this in my explanations that were in my previous post.

Yes it can take 5 seconds for an ANL fuse to blow. But I'm not going to explain to you how designing and using a fuse works.

I have explained enough to you. I don't understand why people like you are around but you are. You think you know everything but you lack real world experience.

Its OK to be wrong once in a while but when your wrong you need to learn why you are wrong.

[ISO]

if you really want I'll do a test and video it to show that the rear fusing won't blow any faster than the front, and its just silly to think it would!

thats not how electricity works! lol

I'm loving the technical response you got from Kicker... they're just giving an answer with no real idea just like ISO has been.

What you don't understand is that that simple statement explains it all if you understand how electricity really works.

[TheyDontWantMusic]

i don't mean to be rude iso but you really don't have a clue. It almost amazes me how uninformed you can be. The distance between the fuse and amp does not matter! Nearly all fuses will handle twice their current for 5 seconds. The cable won't catch fire if you don't fuse at the amp. Its all basic electronics and real world experience that i have had! I can't possibly believe that you have 16 years of experience with some of the nonsense you've come up with.

[ISO]

EDIT: You guys don't think a 139 db with one 10 inch L7 and a 500 watt amp in a car that was not designed for SPL isn't any good. BTW this was in 2003.

if it was 139dB with an entry level 8inch, something costing $50 or less, it would be a good score, or if it was 144+ with the 10inch L7 it would be a good score.

what car was it in anyway?

its a decent score for a musical setup, but nothing really to brag about in terms of SPL.

Dude back when I did this in 2002 a number like 140+ was a pretty big deal, especially when you consider that I had no electrical upgrades and nothing special and the car wasn't even designed for numbers.

Hell I was using a single Kicker ZR360 and a 1 farad cap.

Actually I was using it at 1 ohm for these numbers but when I ran both my 2000 L7 10s at a 2 ohm combined load I was able to do a 142 consistently and I was able to do a 144 if I really pushed my amp and needed to do it.

It was an old ass Pontiac Lemans hatchback. LOL I loved that car, the poor little thing couldn't do over 60 mph unless you were going down hill and then 65 mph was max.

Yes those numbers were good for what I had and the time period that it was.

[TheyDontWantMusic]

so you haven't entered any competitions since 2002 :/

[AMI CUSTOMS]

The fuse next to the amp is doing absolutely nothing, if you would like a lesson on electrical theory I can gladly do so considering I am a certified electrical engineer. You only need one fuse closest to the source, ei the battery. If you have multiple batteries you need to fuse each battery as it is a source(current source).

[TheyDontWantMusic]

thank you ami customs. I just can't work out why iso doesn't understand this and refuses to! We're talking about the same rating fuse at the battery and the amp for anyone who missed it.

[ISO]

Does electricity not travel to the point were the circuit is damaged first and then it disperses from there?

Electricity does have to follow the rules of time. It does travel from one point to another.

I have to get ready for work.

EDIT: I don't feel that an ANL fuse would blow as fast as Blade fuses and blade fuses are what are used in most amplifiers under 1000 watts.

[TheyDontWantMusic]

no. It doesn't. Its not like a train going along the tracks that stops when it reaches a break in the line :/