i burned my amp

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Topic: i burned my amp

Posted By: kulocrook
Subject: i burned my amp
Date Posted: March 25, 2009 at 9:06 PM

i just installed 2 (4ohm) s12l5 in a sealed box powerd by a kx1200.1 i wired them paralled like the diagram says here droppinng them to 1ohm load and the amp seem to be playing hard for a wile when suddenly it went up in smoke was it something i did wrong? ireally need help with this i sent the amp back to kicker because it was still under warranty but wen i get it back i need to know if i did something wrong thank you guys for any input

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: March 25, 2009 at 9:27 PM

Are you sure that amp is 1 ohm stable? are the woofers single or dual voice coil?

Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 26, 2009 at 12:32 AM

Hmm I thought the L5 was dual coil... if so - you're saying you wire TWO L5's - dual 4 Ohms in parallel and then parallel again which made them 1 ohm correct? Ok, were the subs / amp brand new? My guess is maybe one of the coils was lower resistance and made the amp run lower than 1 ohm or maybe clipping caused it to blow (gains too high?) Did you check the resistance of the sub wires right before hooking it up to the amp? You might want to check each coil with a multimeter...

Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: March 26, 2009 at 12:38 AM

1 ohm nominal impedance. It can drop to well below that in the passband, overloading your amplifier.

Another example of over-hyped, exceptionally-optimistically-rated Kicker gear. I wouldn't EVER run ANY kicker amp at its maximum "specified load".

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