Ok i turned up the power on my amp yesterday and it just shut off. like it got hot or something. it was hot out yesterday. but if i turned my car off and back on it would come back on and hit till it got hot and shut off. well i turned it back down and it was fine. well today i bridged it and. it hit for just a couple hard hits and stoped. i thought it was the same thing but it wasnt and it ended up being that it blew the fuse by my battery. how do i prevent this from happening again. i have a profile 800 watt and a 8 gauge amp kit. i know profiles arent the best but i like it. please help i would like to have sound again and i want to get louder.

 

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how many ohms is it running at? Usually on low price amps, when you run less than 4 ohms at a high volume it goes into protect mode and turns off. Your wires are 8 guage so that means your getting sufficent power if you ran directly all the way to the battery.

Nextly, make sure your grounds and connections are all tight. I had a loose remote wire once and took me a day to track it down. Stupid thing, amp kept turning off, turn stereo off then on again and 3 min later it was off.

Try those
~Tim

 

so how am i supposed to get the max power of my amp so i dont only get to use half of it. well it is remanufactured and i have two poineer 12's with 450 watt max running of of them. and they are 4 ohm speakers but i tried bridging it and that is when it blew the fuse by my battery. what can i do to prevent that. and when i had it running unbridged i tried turning the amp up like the bass boost and the level and that is when it was getting too hot and shutting off

 

Run over a wiring check. I dont know to much on the electronic but I know my home stereo shuts off if you have the wrong wiring or if a wire is crossed. Thats what might be going on with your system, some crossed or grounded out wire. Other wise your might be able to have a electic dude check out the ams and make sure its not about to fry a fuse inside or something.

 

cool thanks ill make sure i have everything tight and wired to the place it should be

 

Not to offend you but is your fuse big enough for your stereo?
My stereo will draw 50 amps and it is not a huge stereo. You want your fuse to protect against shorts but not limit the amperage you normaly draw. You may need a larger fuse. 8 gauge wire is not that huge either. Amps can get hot trying to "pull" power from a wire that is too small.

 

a guy at my work said it should be fine if i upgraded to 4 gauge kit and 15 guage speaker wire

 

I would definately upgrade to 4 gauge wire. While that may not solve your problems and like what was said earlier, it will help your amp out. At least use 4 gauge to get to the vicinity of the amp, then if you needed to you could run some 8 gauge to the amp. But I would recommend going to 4 gauge all the way.

What are the specs on the amp, like the info about power output at different ohms, etc. That will help some.

Matt