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Dec 4, 2004 | 05:28 PM

hi..i'm new

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Today I was listening to Nelly Furtado - Turn off the lights in my car and had it fairly loud.. anyways I noticed the amp lost power during some of the heavier notes.. regardless of what i had the gains or bass boost at.. The green power light fluctuated but the protection light never came on.. any ideas?

Dec 4, 2004 | 05:46 PM

hi..i'm new

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ok. after some fiddling with it.. As long as I don't have the bass boost on the amp passed 1/4 all is fine.. weird

Dec 4, 2004 | 07:31 PM

Haunz

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Make sure your ground is solid..

Dec 4, 2004 | 08:30 PM

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Originally posted by hi..i'm new:
Today I was listening to Nelly Furtado - Turn off the lights in my car and had it fairly loud.. anyways I noticed the amp lost power during some of the heavier notes..

Maybe your amp is not a Nelly Furtado fan..... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Dec 4, 2004 | 08:43 PM

hi..i'm new

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aww come one.. everyones a nelly furtado fan..

Dec 4, 2004 | 08:55 PM

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Yeah I am just kidding around, I like most of what I have heard off of her latest album.

Dec 5, 2004 | 05:23 AM

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Power/ground connections. Make sure they are clean and tight. Use a DMM to make sure you have a good ground.

Dec 6, 2004 | 03:12 AM

cxixer

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I'm with hardwrkr on this one, check the ground! Or check your wiring, has it done this on any other heavy hitting songs? Have a big enough wire guage going to it?

Dec 6, 2004 | 02:23 PM

Paul Niwranski

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Maybe you're not supposed to **** around with your amp? [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

I occasionally get customers commenting about odd amplifier operation and every time the amplifier settings are WAY out of reason.

The various ***** and switches on an amp are for setup at installation, not for day to day adjustment.

Dec 6, 2004 | 02:34 PM

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hi..i'm new

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My settings are not out of reason... deck output 2.5v , and amp input 8v Gain so it's set at a lil over 1/2 to match outputs and bass boost pretty much off. I'm no just gonna blast my gains and boost...

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