Fireworks from the amp.

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Thanks, sorry for your trouble.  I wanted to reference a remark Mr. Mantz  made in that article about that line of ESX amps being "...way too advanced for the car stereo market..." 

A mental note I made about the sparking problem here-   would it be wise to put another fusehoder in the power cable next to the amp, with another 60 amp fuse?  And, before testing again, I would make the final connection with the battery ground cable, for safety's sake.  I always want to touch the ground connection to the battery last thing.

Is your amp mounted to the metal part of your cars chassis, or a wooden amp rack? If it is mounted directly to metal, I would change that first. Amps can spark normally sometimes because they are capacitors and need to charge up. Also check your ground and remember that you are supposed to hook up your ground first when installing,and unhook the ground last when disconnecting.

Angel

that was my first idea, a lot of people get carried away and flip the wires there.  also, did you go throught the firewall properly, shoot a screw through something, or have a stray wire at the terminals touching where it shouldnt?  in addition, you should try hooking the amp up on a wok bench to a battery or right off your battery and see if it does the same thing.  does it do that when there is a load on the amp, or all the time?  does it matter if the RCAs are connected?