ok so installed my amp turned the key and heard a click looked back it was sprking then caught on fire WTF how did this happen all the wires were in the right place.????? my amp is fried now.

 

Details of your setup including pics of wiring and perhaps a verbal diagram would really help. I don't think it's just a freak accident...though it could be. Was it a Jensen or Pyramid amp?

 

my JBL amp did the same thing.....blew flames right out the side.....i sent it to JBL and they said it had defective mosfets and they actually wanted me to pay to fix it!



also, it might have been Road Gear or Legacy, no Hobiekopek?

 

no its a kicker from 1997. it was just power wire into that slot ground into that slot ect.., the groung and everything were fine because i had another amp hooked up to them. i was powering my rear speakers.

 

did ya spill somthin on it

 

Damn straight! My two favorite targets of ridicule are still pyramid and jensen though.

Try getting them to fix it, but I think you'll have a tough time after 7 years or so of being sold. Worth a shot though, right?

 

i bought it from ebay should i say something to the guy see if he will take it back. does it sound like the amp malfunctioned or me??

 

dood that's scary if u didnt hear that click, u probably would've smelled something else and it would've been worse..

i dont think it's possible to wire it wrong so that the amp burns up, unless your car has a voltage of more than 14v and u have the speakers wired so it has a resistance of 1 ohm or less..or that u wired the power cable to the speaker inputs but i dont think too many people can make that mistake

hope u get things resolved!

 

ok thanks guys

 

sounds like a defective or broken amp. if that's the first time you powered it up since you bought it from the guy, contact him, cause it sounds like he sold you a busted amp.

 

Hey,
My amp went up in flames!!! Yesturday i have a kenwood 1000watt and 1 12 inch L7. I got a new amp from best buy but my back of the seat are burnt. Called Kenwood taked to some engineers and they said that amp cant handle 2ohms bridge so theres the problem for me.

 

Precision Power spanked my *** years ago when I started one of their amps on fire. I tried to play dumb, but they know better. All the MOSFETs were burnt. PPI referred to it as the input power rail, and informed me that the only way I could have done this was an improper speaker load. They sent it back fixing nothing. I actually ordered the MOSFETs from a semiconductor catalog and put them in, along with the biasing resistors for them, but it only lasted a few weeks. I think conductors on the board were touching cause the board was almost complete ash were it first burned.

Anyway if you want to be ambitious, attempt to pull a number or two off the MOSFETs put the #'s into the net and order them. Dont just order the ones that look bad because they absolutely have to match.

 

all i did was put the positive speaker wire in the positive and so on. i didnt bridge or anything. i was hooking up my rear speakers to the amp. its supposed to be 50x2@4ohms. ???? im still lost how could this of happened

 

The dude you bought it from was prolly havin trouble and slapped a huge fuse in it so it would work long enough to unload it on ya. File a buyer complaint with Ebay if you want, dont know if they actually do anything.