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Old Oct 12, 2003 | 03:26 PM
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Fuses keep blowing!!!

The other day my friend wanted me to turn up my bass on my amp and i did, but 2 day i got in the car turned it up and all of a sudden no subs. I was like ok just got to turn the bass down.. So i did, i put new fuses in and it worked..But i turned it up and then it blew again after i put every thing back to were it was before. I never had a problem with it for the 2 months i had it all 2gether??? What the h*ll could it be???
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Old Oct 12, 2003 | 04:26 PM
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have you checked your ground wire?

a fuse will blow is the current running through it is to much for it to handle or the ground source is bad
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Old Oct 12, 2003 | 07:22 PM
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Uhh i think my ground is good because i looked at it yesturday, but i will check it 2 morrow.. If its not what else could it be???
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Old Oct 13, 2003 | 04:21 PM
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what size amp does your amp take? if its not that, i'd re-check your power power to sure it doesn't have a crimp in it somewhere or a place where the copper wire inside the power wire is toching something somewhere.

You could have a bad amp too =[ what kind of amp is it?
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Old Oct 13, 2003 | 05:05 PM
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Fixxed it!!! I put a couple of zip ties on the power wire and the ground i guess that was stupid!!!
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Old Oct 13, 2003 | 11:17 PM
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Wait a second... you ZIP TIED your connections to the mounting points, or you zip tied them together??
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Old Oct 14, 2003 | 06:18 PM
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Sorry, I mean i had zip tied the power and the ground wire together the other day. I guess they were pinched of something because as soon as i took them off and moved the wires away from each other it started working again.
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Old Oct 14, 2003 | 06:39 PM
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hahaha yeah, tis recommend like I think 3 feet apart from one another???. if its ran side by side it will cause interferance. If you run the power wire from the battery and run your speaker wire close to it its been known to distort either or if not both speakers.

glad u got it to work, i'd seperate them as much as possible n make it so the only way they have to be close is to hook up to the amp =]
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