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So i just got back from installing my new headlights (that went okay btw... took me like 15 minteus to swap the first side, 25 seconds for the other, lol!)

i mounted one of my speakaers.. a clip was stripped so the screw wasn't holding

now, i went to my trunk to adjust the gains for my front speakers. first thing i notice is that the groudn wire is coming out (god knows how this happens, it was plenty long enough) so i put a little eight on the back of my seat to get into position to tighten it back up... snap, the peice that holds the ground wire in on the side and bottom comes right off, so i think, no biggie i can fix this... hen i notice that one of the speaker wires has snapped (wtf, why are my wires doing this?!) so i head over to strip the wire back and reconnect it. next: a a little crackling noise, a teeny bit of smoke, some light, and a charred "battery" terminal on my amp... oh fuck. the ground and power touched, so i unpluged everyhthing else and took the amp out, then took the wire out of my distrobution block (to prvent even more fun!)

so now im pretty sure this amp is done, fried, toast, etc. I'm pretty sure i rember hearing about if the power and ground wires touch, you've got yourself a nie paper weight! (btw, the amp is a Alpine MRP-240). I COuld send this amp in for repair and pay some money i don't want to pay, but instead i think im going to look for a decent 4 channel amp in the $200 range. this amp is 50w RMS x 4 @ 4 ohms and 70w RMS x 4 @ 2 ohms. What really makes this ballsy is that i just ordered some tweeters and 100feet of wiring. I think i should stop typing and go ahead and reconnect the wires behind my dash so i can have some music. thats going to be a pain because i shortened the wires, lol.

is my amp blown? i don't know how to get the fuse out x_x so im not sure if its toast.

anyone mind this:

FUCK

I doubt it's toast. Just wire it up and try it. I've accidently touched wires togetehr before and made the smoke, no big deal.

ok well... i can't acutally wire it up becasue the clip to hold the ground wire snapped so the ground wire won't stay in place... should i be ghetto and tape the wire in or should i try to hot glue the peice back on.. i'll have a pic in a second.

Justin from Detroit wrote:I doubt it's toast. Just wire it up and try it. I've accidently touched wires togetehr before and made the smoke, no big deal.

Same here..I've done it a couple times and i've never blown an amp.

ya the best way to know is just hook it up again what harm can you do.

i could swear i've heard of peopel fucking amps up liek that.. but anyway, i need to figure out how to get that plastic peice back on, otherwise im not actually oging to beable to use the a\mp.

ya you can mess an amp up like that but some times you dont. i have messed a rockford up that way.

I messed up mine like that, well, i had a screwdriver in the positive terminal and 3 sparks went from the shaft to the casing before I could move it away. Puff of smoke and a blown fuse later, nothing. Everytime I hook the amp up, it blows its fuse. Funny thing is that I can't find anything fried on the circuit board itself.


Edit: Pioneer 4 channel amp is what I did it to.

Ya best thing to do is, just try it and see what happens.

Did the smoke come out of the amp itself, or just from where you shorted the wire?