A friend of mine has an Alpine amp that is designed to run everything ( speakers and subs) he cant manage to get it to work. It only turns on some of the time, and it goes into protection half the time it actually works.

I thought it was his wiring but we hooked my amp up to his car and it worked fine. We also tried turing the gains down, and still it doesnt work. Anyway to get this fixed, or test for something internally wrong with the amp?

 

speakers AND subs????? Alpine does not make 6 channel amps, so that's impossible.

 

^ I presume he either has a 4ch or a 2ch...

Hook the old amp back up and check all wiring, again. Make sure the settings on the amp are set up properly; and speakers are wired properly....

If it is the amp... it might not like the load he is running... it may also have a bad fet inside...

If the problem persists take the amp into a repair shop and have em bench test it...

 

Alpine has made some 5 channel amps though http://www.cardomain.com/item/ALPMRVF357

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-49d4YoD...skipvs=T&g=100

 

Well, the amp does have special channels for each thing (subs, speakers), it says so on it where you connect the speaker wire. But this is not the point!

I dont care what kind of specs the amp has! Who really cares how many channels it has, I want to know why it won't work! Thats why I named the post "AMP PROBLEM"... not "How do I know how many channels my amp has?"

[ January 24, 2006, 11:10 PM: Message edited by: flipconvict ]

 

Thanks HAUNZ for answering my question, I had heard bench testing was the next step. I tried messing around with the wire, turning the gains down and what not but still nothing. He has no speakers hooked into currently.