Nah thats not it. and nothing has changed. I had a kenwood amp with the two kicker subs for almost three years and it blew out. i got the jl and it worked for 4 weeks. The subs are 8 ohm and were connected in series. does that have anything to do with it? do you know if there is a fuse inside the jl amp that i might have blown for having too much resistance.
Sounds very much like resistance was an issue and no they dont have an internal fuse sorry
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Too much resistance wouldn't be an issue, the higher the resistance the less demand on the amp.
I'd wire the subs in parallel for starters, that'll get you a 4 ohm load (assuming you have two subs at 8 ohms each) which the amp will have no problem with and you'll get lots of power. The 500/1 is a very robust amp........I connected a load to one years ago that I had miswired and it was somewhere around half an ohm and although it had virtually no control over the woofers, it just kept on working! Quite a good amp!
Do you have a multimeter? Disconnect the subs from the amp and meter the leads from the subs to make absolutely sure you have a load that's more than 2 ohms.
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