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blowing fuses
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:30 pm
by tommy.l
why do i keep blowing my 100 amp fuses almost imediately after putting them in
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:54 pm
by William from NOLA
Could be a number of things. We can't really help you until you tell us what you have (everything car audio) and how it's installed.
It COULD be the amp shorting out, woofers wired incorrectly, amp wired incorrectly, etc.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:46 pm
by Ryan from Ohio
Its because you have a dead short. Either something not hooked up properly, your wire may have got cut somewhere and shorts out OR the amps dead. Not to many choices here...
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:33 pm
by tommy.l
it was blowing a few of them, then my amp fried. i have two 15" L7's solo barics with a older pioneer deck and had a hifonics bx2005D 2000w mono powering them both. i only had 8g wiring and replaced with 4g since i was going through fuses, i thought it may fix the problem.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:46 pm
by jgs07
u had 8 gauge wiring? that is way too small for the amount of power that u r using. i think the minimum for this amp is 2 gauge. id recommend going with 0 gauge tho.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:15 am
by Bwcad1
imo 4 gage is to small. Nothing against you man but this is how hifonics gets a bad rap guys. this exact thing so when people tell you hifonics is shit or its overated remember things like this, this is how it happends.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:00 am
by Ryan from Ohio
Well im guessing the amps messed at this point...
Send it in for repair and upgrade wiring to 1/0.
Plus 100amp fuse probably isnt enough anyhow...
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:32 am
by Jon
tommy.l wrote:why do i keep blowing my 100 amp fuses almost imediately after putting them in
Maybe because your amp pulls almost 150a?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:50 am
by Bwcad1
Jon wrote:Maybe because your amp pulls almost 150a?
ahahahah you are the man!
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:05 pm
by jgs07
if u need 0 gauge wire for the hifonics amps, the more powerful amps, y doesnt hifonics make the terminals bigger? on my amp the bxi 1606. the terminals are just big enough for a 4 gauge. i have 0 gauge on my amp but i had shave off quite a bit of wire just to get it in the terminal.