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Subs going off the hook (by 3 users)


posted by skot on Sep 29, 2006


my subs worked fine... then they just started to thumop without any music going to the amp. any ideas??
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Comment by johnnybaby32, posted on Apr 10, 2008

my amp was working fine for a while. then one day i started my car and the amp just went haywire making a thumping noise. as it was doing it i unhooked my rca cables from the amp so there wasnt any sound going into the amp and that didnt do anything. any ideas as if the amp is shot or if it something simple in the wireing.

Comment by Guest, posted on Mar 18, 2008

I've had the same problem with this amp thumping without music, but with power on, except mine stopped working all together shortly after. Has power running to it, grounded fine, but the power light won't even come on now.

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posted on Oct 13, 2006
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I will agree with the first solution posted but you can also start checking values with an ohm/volt meter, a digimeter, I would start by checking values of the MOSFET Transistors, If you get more than a couple of bad reading then you got more of a problem than its worth to try to repair it unless you know your stuff in this field, but if you only got like one bad valued transistor you can isolate this circuit and see what happened to make this transistor fry like bacon then replace those parts as well
I will give it an 80% chance that you need new amp but what do you have to lose, it doesnt work anyways :0)
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Solution #2

posted on Nov 18, 2007
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RCA IN BACK OF RADIO IS BAD I had same problem try a other radio that fix mine
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posted on Jan 21, 2007
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I just fixed this same problem...it was a bad rca cable..when i pulled out the head unit and banged the two rca's together they made the subs hit. I thought it was my amp dyin, cuz i had good ground and figured the 6 years finally put its toll on the amp. I realized when i was rocking out and hitting my steering wheel that my subs hit when i banged my wheel and dash.

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posted on Oct 04, 2006
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your ground is the problem here, try moving your ground to a different spot or try double grounds
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posted on Nov 27, 2006
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I agree... make sure your amp has a good heavy gauge wire for the ground(and power for that matter),make sure the ground wire connection to the body from the amp is clean(bare metal, no paint or rust) and tight ,and make sure your battery-to-body ground under the hood is good too. If you are not sure take a piece of 8 or 4 gauge wire and make a new ground directly form the negative terminal of the battery to the chassis of the car. this will ensire your grounded well...
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