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by ENVYMYZ » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:38 am

two4fifteen wrote:i would say yeah.
where theres smoke....

Crap. Oh well, nothing like a better time to upgrade to a JL Audio 500/1 :happy055:

or maybe the Eclipse EA4000..... :bigwink:

by cargodz » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:34 am

Ok now that we have all the information.
I'm leading back towards Bill's original of gain settings and it sounds like you may have fryed something... yeah this being the amp itself.
Best bet is to check it with the handy dandy digital multi meter before you send it out for repairs or replace though.

by solacedagony » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:32 am

lol, I would get that amp checked out or you might not have a Z anymore... because it'll be on fire :)
You also don't want to end up destroying your sub if the amp decides to go.

by Bwcad1 » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:31 am

pull the case off inspect the fet rails sounds like you fried the input stage to me.

by two4fifteen » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:28 am

i would say yeah.

where theres smoke....

by ENVYMYZ » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:23 am

It was 5v before and now it is 8v. Here's another thing I didnt mention. About a week ago, I took the Z out for a good couple hour cruise with music blasting pretty much the whole time. Now keep in mind I have the amp mounted underneath the passenger seat (this is a 2 seater car.)

While cruising, all of a sudden I hear the bass turn off and I think to myself, thats weird. Then a big puff of white smoke comes up from under the left side of the passenger seat. I pull over and turn everything off. My buddy and I look all around the amp to see what started smoking and we couldnt find anything. Check the amp and cd player and everything seemed to be working fine. So we just chalked it up as being a "thats weird" type of moment and continued on our way. Think this might have something to do with my amp shutting off now? I used it for over a week at full volume with no problems after the little smoke incident though.

by Bwcad1 » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:06 am

no im not to familiar with the eclipse decks but what was your preout voltage before and what is it now?

by ENVYMYZ » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:01 am

Bwcad1 wrote:sounds like a gain issue to me.
So does that mean my amp is fuxored?

by Bwcad1 » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:57 am

o yea no arguments there. i had a durango do that thats y a dmm is your best friend ;)

by cargodz » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:56 am

Bwcad1 wrote:he said it turned back on but then when he turned it up the amp shut off.
I know, but if one of the fuses is broke on the end it can easily get jostled back into place until it get's a little power.
My old Civic had this problem and it took me forever to track down and fuses are cheap and never hurts to have a couple extra layin around just in case.

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