just blew another mid amp??

[Dangrebel 89]

Hey guyz, i heard 2 pops about 2 seconds apart then hit play on my iphone and silence. Ive had 2 different amps on my door speakers. ONe was an alpline mrp300.4 or something like that and now i have phoenix gold octane 9.0.1. both are 5 channel and i used only the 4 channels for my door speakers. I have pioneer 5800mp headunit, the pico fuse is blown so i catch a goodbit of alt whine and noise. which leads me to think that has something to do with the amps blowing? Could that have an effect on the amp if the fuse is blown? I checked all fuses and connections. It wasnt playin music when it happened either, which is weird to me. Please help me fix what im doing wrong!!!!!!!

[Randal Johnson 544]

Sorry to hear about the bad luck bro ...

Guess my first question would be why are you using 5 channel amps ???

[Dangrebel 89]

Well, they are left over from when I first had a stereo, I used 5 channel amps for simplicity. So the we're just sitting there in my room so I used them. I just don't want to to hurt my Sounddigital sd250.2 I'm bout to buy.

[Kanaworm$ 292]

Take a DMM and start trouble shooting all wiring through out your vehicle. Make sure nothing is pinched or grounded to metal.

[Ohjay 116]

Take a DMM and start trouble shooting all wiring through out your vehicle. Make sure nothing is pinched or grounded to metal.

Do this, you've probably got a wire shorting out somewhere.

[Dangrebel 89]

Ok I will today. But it was 3 months in between my amps blowing. So I thought a pinched wire would have showed up earlier.

[shizzzon 461]

maybe you should find out what part of the amp is blowing...

IF it's the input side, i would be either getting a new headunit or grounding the rcas on the back of your headunit.

[Dangrebel 89]

Yea on the alpine amp it was the input. So would the rcas not being grounded hurt the amp?

[bassahaulic 155]

You can ground RCA's. There is a well known trick for Pioneers.

[Dangrebel 89]

I'm getting a new head unit for Christmas but would the ungrounded rcas hurt an amp? I don't want to blow my bc2000

[bassahaulic 155]

I'm getting a new head unit for Christmas but would the ungrounded rcas hurt an amp? I don't want to blow my bc2000

It shouldn't hurt anything.

But re-Ground them anyway.

[Dangrebel 89]

Ooooopz I double posted my bad!

Edited November 27, 2011 by Dangrebel