RF old school amp blowin fuses

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Topic: RF old school amp blowin fuses

Posted By: vdubmk4
Subject: RF old school amp blowin fuses
Date Posted: August 17, 2004 at 1:12 PM

My RF 360a2 amp keeps blowin my main fuse, (i stopped hookin it up after the 2nd fuse, so dont look at me like that ;)) Sooo, i'm gunna take it to get it bench tested prob serviced. Are there ne recommendations as to where and the such, and how much am i gunna have to spend ?

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Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.

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Posted By: zane9000
Date Posted: August 17, 2004 at 1:31 PM

RadioShack services most equipment like that. They will send it out to their repair shop and will tinker with it for about 2 weeks then send it back and charge you about $100. youll take it home to discover it has the same issue. You then return to the shop and say "What the F*** Man!" and he'll say "O don't worry, well send it out again for free." Another two weeks will go by and they'll send it back and say "Sorry we don't service that unit at all heres your money back."

seriously though... avoid the radio shack repair shop if its not a radio shack product they say they can fix it but 80% of the time they cant and it will take at least a month to find that out.

not that i thought any of you would actually use their shop on your nice equipment, just a general word of warning.

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Posted By: raydawg357
Date Posted: August 17, 2004 at 2:25 PM

You can also send it back to Fosgate, They will fix it for you. Look them up and get a RA#. I don't know what the charges will be, but there will be a 800 # you can call.

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Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 17, 2004 at 3:45 PM

I found out that my amp wasnt messed up. But i also found out that it would be atleast 180 bucks to replace the power supply in it, which would be the cause for the amp blowin fuses like theres no tmmra.

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Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.

Posted By: Charles_R_H
Date Posted: August 18, 2004 at 11:25 AM

is your load on the amp lower than how ever many ohms stable the amp is?

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Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 18, 2004 at 1:50 PM

does this unit blow the fuse as soon as the fuse is inserted or only when you try to remote the amp on?

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since 1979

Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 18, 2004 at 1:55 PM

Its not broke. I had it bench tested. Later on I got it to work in my car. Thanks for the help though.

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Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.