honey - why is there all that smoke in your truck?

[TSTONE]

honey - why is there smoke in your truck?

hooked up my new amp/eq last night, and almost blew my sub amp!!!

last night i installed my new amp/eq, and the setup sounds suprisingly good, but it caused my sub amp to smoke(alot) :fire:

i followed directions, mapped all the wires, ran seperate power and ground lines(8g), and daisied from the rca output jacks on my sub amp for the input source for the amp and it ROCKED(for about 3/4's of kid rocks - wanna be a cowboy), wife was *****in, the hound was howling, and suddenly my x was full of smoke , turns out that the sub amps rca outputs(used for daisy chaining amps) did not like having to share their feed. i'm not really sure why though? the sub amp is supposed to capable of daisying upto 2 additional amps of at least equal strength to the original (360wts) and the new amp/eq is only rated at 300wts(i'm sure thats an over statement ), but luckily i killed the power & unhooked everything, let the sub amp cool down while i rerouted the new amp/eq's input feed to a different source, hooked it all back up and now it all works just fine,

is this twighlite zoneish or what?
any ideas?
todd

 

[leenjen]

are you sure it isnt the subwoofer's impedance. for example: if the amp si stable to 4 ohms mono and you are running a 4 ohm DVC sub in parallel to make a 2 ohm load. that's a common mistake.


what kind of equipment do you have?

 

[TSTONE]

i won't pretend to understand what your talking about,
my experience is from the old days of installing car audio systems.

the rca outputs on the sub amp are supposed to be(according to the manual) a direct pass through, like you were connecting direct to the source.

my equipment sounds great but isn't what most would consider good:

-ford premium HU
-ford 10dsk rf changer
-clarion replacements in all 4 doors, run from the factory amp
-lanzar e802 amp run in bridged mode for 360wts draws its input source from a hi-level to low-level converter
-lanzar 10" 450wt single kicker run off the lanzar amp
-pyramid 808 300wt 10 band EQ/amp, draws its input source from the pre hi/lo converter lines
-jd audio twin 12" ported 300wt kicker box w/ tweets run off the pyramid EQ