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Autotek 220mxi, repair and use or sell broken???

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I recently purchased a old school zed made Autotek 220mxi. The guy sold it cheap as he had no clue on car audio worth. The amp powered up and worked well for about 3 hours of moderate use. It was powering 2 RE Audio SE-X 12D4s. I had it wired at 2 ohm stereo mode (2 ohm load each channel) which I thought the amp could handle. I ran a good 4 gauge power wire and ground (knukonceptz) with a 60AMP inline fuse and the gain was at maybe 40% max. Bass on stereo set at 0, loudness on low setting.

After about 3 total hours of use spread out over 2 days it quit. When it died you could smell the "dead amp" smell of burnt electronics and it blew the inline fuse as well. Just for kicks I decided to put a new inline fuse in. It pops the fuse as soon as the system is powered on.

All of that being said, I am trying to decide whether to have zed repair the amp and give it another try or sell it as a parts unit and pick up something new. I didn't even really get a feel for what the amp is capable of as I didn't turn the system up much past half way. 

Opinions and comments would be appreciated.

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Should look over all your wiring. If your blowing fuses that's the first place I would look.

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Smashed, thanks for the reply. It is possible that you misunderstood my question. I know why the fuse blew, not trying to troubleshoot.

Just trying to decide on having the amp repaired or junking it and getting a new amp.

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On 8/2/2013 at 11:36 PM, speedfreak73 said:

Smashed, thanks for the reply. It is possible that you misunderstood my question. I know why the fuse blew, not trying to troubleshoot.

Just trying to decide on having the amp repaired or junking it and getting a new amp.

Do you still have the autotek amp if so you want to sell it

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Your first post and you bring a 5.5 year old thread back from the dead.  LOL!

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Actually I’m just trying to find some of these amps and figured I’d at least ask if you still had it is all

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