My system includes a sony headunit, an 1800 watt amplifier made by sound storm, and 2 12" audiobahn 1000 watt subs. I recently have had a local stereo shop install a new capacitor on account of my lights dimming and it all was working fine. I came out of work one day and my amp wouldn't turn on at all. I reset it but it still wasn't getting any power. Today, I rewired everything and had to take out the capacitor because it wasn't working at all. When I wired everything up to the amp, it would work, but I couldn't turn it up even half as loud as I could before without the amp's LED protection mode light turning on and the amp shutting off within about 5 seconds. I really don't know if the amp is almost blown or what is going on. Please help.


J.D.

I have also turned down all adjust knobs on my amp and the same problem occurs.


J.D.

id either say blown, or its grounding out somehow.

i checked the wiring twice and everything looks fine. no cuts in the wire or anything. could the gauge be too small? and ive also looked into buying a yellow top optima battery. would it help at all?


J.D.

sorry for so many replies to my own thread but ive also hooked up a different amp to my subs and the same thing happens.


J.D.

might be low voltage................

If you used two different amps (with different power and ground sources I assume) on the same speakers and it happened, I think your impedance is set up too low.

Are the subs DualVoiceCoil or SVC?

And what impedance are the coils as well...

wysiwyg wrote:i would say they bang, they don't really pound so much. but if
you want to bump, then they will bump and hit real hard and a lot good.

LOL