lilblacky

so then by your reasoning... if i have two of these http://www.kenwoodusa.com/Car_Entertainmen...ofers/KFC-W3012 Hooked to the zx2500.1 and I dont crank it to much, maybe tone the bass down a bit on my H/U and put up some smaller inline fuses and what not I'll be good?

Ok so I have a kicker zx2500.1 laying around my house and since I blew my previous amp, This may besomething I can stick in my car. So my question is (after doing some digging that led to nowhere) does ANYBODY know the MAX of this amp? I have read quite a few things most of which say this # RMS Power Rating: * 4 ohms: 1250 watts x 1 chan. * 2 ohms: 2500 watts x 1 chan. # Max power output: 2500 watts x 1 chan. How can the rms and the max of the amp at 2ohms be the same?

hmmmmm well i do believe we need an amp guru then! haha

yea i hooked it up the sony amp... and it went back to the saaaaaaame problem.

yea the rockford is a 2 channel i bridged it and wired it to 2ohms i cranked it all the way up to 36 and it was fine... though it wasn'd nearly as loud as the sony before the prob, it was louder than it after.

so i hooked up the rockford amp that i had laying around and it worked fine =( im guessing the other is messed up ey?

yea the amp to car ground is very tight... yea i have a lil puney rockford amp i could try i i suppose

yea i tightened it down really good... I mean the big thing that I dont get about this ordeal is how everything could work fine and then the ground falls out of the amp and boom nothing works

It's really cloudy where I am at and my phone cant take a good picture w/o a lot of light haha but if its a wiring problem I'm pretty positive that its not any of the connections into the amp. Maybe my ground wire for my actual car?

yea all the + and - connections match. the gain isnt set too high and the bass boost isnt on

oh and just to add... my car runs fine. Starts up great and I dont see any problem with any of the other electrical stuff in my car

i have http://www.kenwoodusa.com/Car_Entertainmen...ofers/KFC-W3012 I was thinking about maybe wiring the woofers down to a lower impedance.

Already checked all the fuses on the amp and inline fuses and they are fine. No problems there. Both subs are wired at 4ohms, one on each channel of the amp. all the wire is 4awg rockford. It's only running at like 250w rms... not sure about the peak though. Pioneer h/u that I have had for some time now but I have never had any problems with it before. I pulled the deck out and checked all the connections and what not there, any fuses that were tied into that and everything was fine... Do you think i could have screwed up the amp when the ground fell out?

So this is just some crappy system that I bought from my friend cuz he needed money. Its a Sony Xplod GTR2022 amp with 2 Kenwood 12s. After using it in my car for a few weeks the amp decides to go into protect mode. So I turned off my car and took a look at the amp and it looks like my ground wire fell out of the amp when I was driving. So i connect the ground back up and make sure everything is all hooked up right and started driving again. Here is where the problem is, the amp and subs are fine until I turn the volume up to 14 then the amp goes into protect mode and the subs of course cut out. Now I usually had the volume up to about 36 on the regular. Since its Arizona the amp seems pretty hot but I don't think that would mean it would play at low volume levels and then instantly cut out at the slightest sign of turning it up. My friend and I measured the voltage and it came up right above 12v from the battery and the amp. (I have an Optima Yellow cap just in case that was needed info). Any other suggestions?

www.mechman.com he did mine and i own an 04 hyundai sonata... probably the same alternator im guessing. I got a 250 amp alternator