burned resistors on hifonics

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Topic: burned resistors on hifonics

Posted By: ty
Subject: burned resistors on hifonics
Date Posted: June 28, 2005 at 1:16 AM

I burnt the resistors the other day on my hifonics bx1500d amp, and I don't know why. Is this just a hifonics problem, or have I done something wrong. It has been powering my (don't laugh), audiobahn aw1206t, since january and no problems until one day starting smoking like crazy. Anyway I have the amp wired up parallel on a two ohm load, which hifonics says is stable at 1000 watts on the 1500d. Anyone know what went wrong, and if this will happen again with a hifonics product? They just sent me the new bx1605d, so any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Posted By: redrazor
Date Posted: June 28, 2005 at 1:42 AM

I've heard some people say that hifonics amps are a bit overratted on thier rms output numbers, but hey I just ordered the TX 1505D and it should be here any day now so we'll see.

Posted By: TruckSystem
Date Posted: June 28, 2005 at 9:12 AM

Seems that the general consensus is the bx1605d and most of their new stuff is much more reliable then the bx1500d was, so you shouldn't have any more problems.

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Posted By: skoldspuppy
Date Posted: June 28, 2005 at 9:50 AM

I have had my BX1500D running on a 1ohm load for 7-8 months now and I havent encountered any problems, but like TruckSystem said the newer line is actually supposed to be more stable, I would not worry about it happing to the newer amps, let us know how that 1605 works I might just upgrade

Later

--Skold

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Posted By: ty
Date Posted: June 28, 2005 at 1:12 PM

cool thanks for the info, and redrazor, I knew some guy who had his 1500x bench tested and is supposed to be 1000 watts at 2 ohms, and it was only pushing 770, just to give you an idea. I haven't bench tested the new model yet, but lets hope the stablilty and output is there.