why do amps shutdown?

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Topic: why do amps shutdown?

Posted By: domiyork8091
Subject: why do amps shutdown?
Date Posted: January 10, 2006 at 11:15 AM

Hi,

Just a general question, if an amp is rated 2 ohms stable when bridged and I connect 2 4oms rated speaker bridged parallel to the amplifier they become a 2 ohms load right?

Why do they sometimes turn off is is just my gain set tooo high?

thanks.

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Posted By: dwarren
Date Posted: January 10, 2006 at 11:30 AM

perhaps or it is starved for power.

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: January 10, 2006 at 1:30 PM

It depends on the amp (please post make/model) but yes, two of the most common causes are gain set too high or low voltage due to overloading the alternator. Does the amp have a protection light? Does it come on?

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Posted By: domiyork8091
Date Posted: January 10, 2006 at 8:17 PM

The customer is now gone, he will be back on Saturday. The Amps does have a protection light and it was coming on , I will just try to lower my gain.

Thanks,

Jorge.

Posted By: memphis11223344
Date Posted: January 11, 2006 at 10:01 AM

it could be a lack of the output voltage on your head unit . we had a prob like that in the bay the other day cuz he was running a factory deck so we tryed a new alpine and it worked great. so try lookin up the output voltage on the head unit

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