My amp gets really hot as soon as the power comes on. what does that mean

You can not get advice over the phone or here really

You need knowledgeable folks to be there & see the issue

It may not be getting enough air across the condenser coil to
remove the heat
It may have a refrigerant leak & is boiling off too soon & freezing
the evaporator coil
Or the other suggestions on fan control,switches & such

dear Leah Buss, when we have high teperature on phones, it means either battery shouled be change, or we have very high leakage caused by wet or water damage, anyway first we have to take the battery outside and check if we can power on the mobile using external power supply , or new battery, if done , means the mobile not died , then we have to clean the main board completely using good cleaner to avoide any more leakage later , notice :( for technics, we can calculate the amount of leakage by measuring resistance between battery positive & ground poles on the main board , suitable value should be between 300:700 ohm, in side , and other should be infinity) Ahmed Tahseen

i have done this alot for my customers and its really simple. if you look up your drive and get the jumper settings for it and set it to cable select or master in a one drive enclosure it will work well. i do not recommend putting it on slave because some enclosures will not recognize the drive, I do recommend having an enclosure with a fan on board and an external power switch. the reason it the fan will extend the life of the drive and the power switch eill allow you to power it on and off without having to flatten (power hot swap) the drive. Hot swap is ok but this is better than just unplugging the drive. removing the power from the drive keeps the drive in park until you re-power. as long as the drive is "parked" it is les likely to cause read/write sector errors.
If you have any problems let me know and please leave positive feedback for me. Jethro

bad connection to the ground

Likely there is either a failure in one of the power amps or the power supply. The protect means excess current is being sensed.

You need to take in for repair... these are really hard to work on due to the packaging.

this can only mean 2 things, either your over working the amp, which means your amp is trying to push power that it don't have, and it's getting hot which is known as thermal mode. and the other reason can be that make sure amp rms. matches the rms. of your subs.

Sounds like you might have a problem in the output stage and that it hasn't completely blown out just yet. I'd expect it to get worse soon, like not working at all or maybe smoke coming out or both. You might consider seeing a repair tech. soon. Good luck.

Disconnect the speaker wires and the RCA jacks from the amp.

If it still gets hot, the amp needs to be repaired.

If it doesn't get hot, check the impedance of the speakers and make sure they're wired properly.

If they are wired for the proper impedance, check each voice coil with an ohm meter to make sure none of the voice coils are shorted.

Sounds like you like your music like me... LOUD. If you've done this a number of times, there are a few things that can happen:

1. You've blown the speakers... but you've said it operates for 2 seconds, then cuts out.
2. You've damaged the amplifier modules within the amp and they immediately overheat upon power-up. Does the music come back like 5 or 10 seconds after the unit cuts out?
3. Thermal switch has malfunctioned and just cuts off the power to the amplifier modules as soon as it sees any heat.
4. If you've gotten the amp really HOT during playing, it's possible that it's as simple as the amp modules are only intermittently connected (fatigued/stressed or cold solder joints) at the on the PCB. Just resolder the connections of the amp module to the PCB. I've seen that happen numerous times and that's where I'd place my money.

If the amp gets hot or goes into protection with no input signal and no speakers/wires connected to the speaker terminals, the amp likely has shorted output transistors. It's not a complex amp. Any reputable shop should be able to repair it.