Rockford set up...
Post the exact model of the amp?
Do you have a solid fuse or a breaker?
Post some pictures of your equipment and wiring.
You can try removing the cap, and on the amp turn the bass boost down and gain down and see if it will work.
Do you have a solid fuse or a breaker?
Post some pictures of your equipment and wiring.
You can try removing the cap, and on the amp turn the bass boost down and gain down and see if it will work.
Some reviews states that the breaker trips well below 200A (cheaply built). You might want to try a solid fuse arrangement, and upgrade your wire and electrical as a whole, if you would be running a high amprage system.
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Dfoulkrod, the more information you give us, the better we'll be able to help you.
As always, pictures are worth a thousand words.
I still want to see a picture of how the wiring has been done, and how the subs' speaker wires are connected to the terminal(s) on the amp. Ideally, the pair of subs has been wired for two ohms, and there's only one set of terminals being used on the amp. I'm still confused by an earlier comment where you said that "both channels" are being used...
Hope you can clarify.
To anyone else that's following this thread...
Shouldn't the fuse selection be based on either; the current that can be drawn from a system in regular operation, or the power wire's capacity for passing current?
As always, pictures are worth a thousand words.
Just looked in the subs they are wired at 2 ohm
Hope you can clarify.
To anyone else that's following this thread...
Shouldn't the fuse selection be based on either; the current that can be drawn from a system in regular operation, or the power wire's capacity for passing current?
Dfoulkrod, the more information you give us, the better we'll be able to help you.
As always, pictures are worth a thousand words.
I still want to see a picture of how the wiring has been done, and how the subs' speaker wires are connected to the terminal(s) on the amp. Ideally, the pair of subs has been wired for two ohms, and there's only one set of terminals being used on the amp. I'm still confused by an earlier comment where you said that "both channels" are being used...
Hope you can clarify.
To anyone else that's following this thread...
Shouldn't the fuse selection be based on either; the current that can be drawn from a system in regular operation, or the power wire's capacity for passing current?
As always, pictures are worth a thousand words.
I still want to see a picture of how the wiring has been done, and how the subs' speaker wires are connected to the terminal(s) on the amp. Ideally, the pair of subs has been wired for two ohms, and there's only one set of terminals being used on the amp. I'm still confused by an earlier comment where you said that "both channels" are being used...
Hope you can clarify.
To anyone else that's following this thread...
Shouldn't the fuse selection be based on either; the current that can be drawn from a system in regular operation, or the power wire's capacity for passing current?
If the amp does not have on board fusing then 2 fuse is required, one by the battery and one next to the amp (rated as specified by amp's user manual, or can be calculated or measured).
In the case of a single amp both fuses can be the same rating, as the amp's fuse rating should always be less than the current carrying capacity of the wire and that (amp fuse) rating is used in this case.
Last edited by Sonic; Dec 6, 2012 at 08:08 AM.
