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Anonymous Posted on Apr 11, 2013

Amp fuses keep blowing when i hook wire to battery

I have a 02 tahoe i put a kenwood dd in and now trying to hook up the amp and sub have two new 30 amp fuses in amp and have ground on metal! every time i hook power wire to the battery it pops the fuses and i have checked over all the wires made sure there were no cuts its brand new wiring kit... i popped the top off the amp and checked the board it looks good!

  • Anonymous Apr 11, 2013

    i am getting 12 volts at the remote terminal when the remote from the cd player is not even conected to the amp!

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  • Posted on Jan 08, 2008

SOURCE: Blowing the amp fuses

do you have speakers connected as well? do you have a volt meter
make sure you are getting + from both are you sure the remote is not a 5 volt line?

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 19, 2008

SOURCE: i did what you suggested..

Take it to a car audio shop that has test bench and ask them to check it for you.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 15, 2009

SOURCE: amp has power but sub doesnt work

You say the amp has power so you mean the green l.e.d. comes on correct? If so and you don't get any juice to your sub, check your RCAs make sure they're hooked up correctly. If they are check the wires to your sub, make sure they're making good contact, if its a binding post connection to the sub it can look connected but not be i've had it happen to me before. If the l.e.d. is red, you either blew a fuse on your amp, or your sub is blown, but if you get a green l.e.d. on the amp don't worry about those. If everything checks out and you still don't get power, take your setup to a professional and have him personally look it over for you....... hope you get your bass bangin!!!

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I have a Kenwood 1800wat amp with to 10" Sony kickers, I was driving to my new town when all of a sudden the subs stopped working. I reached around and pulled 1 off 2 fuses were blown and it was a 40amp...

If the fuse should blow up; there might be a reason. Shorted component at the power amplifier circuit board of the sub-woofer amp. It will be best to contact any service technician to check the set. Never insert a fuse and switch ON the set, till the fault has been detected and rectified. It might make things worse.
If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Pull up older posts. Surf the site with patience. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/
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Amp blowing fuses

Your amp is blowing fuses to protect your circuit. The type of 12V battery does not matter. For whatever reason you are over driving the amp. 2 Ohms sounds like a very low impedance for a car amplifier output. I am assuming you have the two 12" speakers wired in parallel. Most are rated at 4 Ohms which means you are pulling twice the current with the 2 Ohm load. Also, the bigger the speaker, the bigger the magnet, the bigger the coil, the larger the inductance, the heavier the load. Make sure these speakers are matched with your amp. A small amp driving large speakers will shut down at high volumes. Try putting them in different channels. Good Luck.
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Blown fuses

I agree with the last answer- your amp has built in fuses that should be rated at 30 amperes each which should be sufficient as the amp only pulls 60 amperes at full power-however you may want to upgrade your power /ground wires to a good 4 gauge set if you dont already have it set up like that-throw an 80-100 amp fuse up front by the battery in case your running another amp for mids and highs just to cover the current draw of the amps combined. If the amp is still blowing fuses after that check to make sure that your subs are wired to no lower than a 2 ohm load as the amp is only stable to 2 ohms.
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Accidentaly switched 12v and ground on amp

NOTHING INTERNAL BUT YOU SHOULD PUT A 30 AMP FUSE BACK IN AS SOON AS YOU CAN TO KEEP THE 20 AMP FROM POPPING THATS THE WHOLE REASON FOR THE FUSE TO KEEP THE ELECTRONICS FROM BLOWING
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Cd player plays, but no sound comes out of speakers.

first off the amp gets power straight from the battery. the amp is used to power the subs. the subs are suppose to be connected to the amp only( never the speakers).

for the second part you mostlikely killed the wires. you should get some one to look at it and check the wires. thee speakers might need to be re-wired
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Keep Blowing Fuses

Sounds like the amp is shorting somehow. You are obviously shorting out somewhere between the battery and the amp. Are you sure you grounding location is a good one? is the fuse blowing only when you turn the stereo on? Something is not hooked up correctly.

If the fuse at the battery is blowing then it's a short.

If the fuse on the amp is blowing then its probably a bad amp.
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No sound

good day, check your spkr impedance, if 4oms use a posive spkr dividing network. if stills blows up replace a higher amperage of your fuse. ex.4A raise it up to 5A. the your amps consume higier current if more spkr wattage.
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AMp keeps blowing fuses

When any amp blows fuses, this indicates that something is drawing too much current. The most common cause are components in the output stage and driver stages that have become defective.

On the amp that is blowing the fuse with the volume being turned up, this means that the output stage is partially working. The short or over-draw of current must be in the output stage, or what is loading it. It is possible in this case that a crossover in a speaker unit is defective, and is drawing too much current. I have seen this with especially sub-woofer crossovers, and the driver itself. Subs pull a lot of current because of the amount of drive power required to have very strong bass sounds. Other than that, this still does not rule out the possibility of the problem being defective components in the amplifier.

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