Ok you guys are just going to cringe and say im an idiot but ill throw it out there anyway. I bought a kicker kx1200.1 amp on ebay, hooked it up to my subs at one ohm and it worked fine for a minute, i got in my car and just went crap cause i smelled that smell that noone wants to smell. i opened my trunk and smoke billowed out. the power light is still on on the amp tho. the guy said hed give me my money back if it was the amp just going bad and if i didnt blow the internal fuse. i thought kicker amps didnt have fuses and thats why you had to have a good fuse in the power cord. comments would be appreciated on what i should do or what you think happened. thanks guys
really hard to tell what was wrong. I have a 60 amp fuse on my kx450.2 (450X1RMS) so 80 sounds kind of small but the fuse would just blow not blow up. Could be the voice coils of the subwoofers. Any way you can post/email a picture of the amp and how it is setup to the subs etc.?
its not the subs. thats what i thought too, had a dealer test em and said there fine. its set up for one ohm mono, i got the wiring diagram off crutchfield.com, the fuse is fine its just the amp. wouldnt a smaller fuse just restrict power? and wouldnt it blow the fuse first? thats what doesnt make sense to me
no, fuses are not ment to restrict the power going to an amp.
fuses will "blow" when there is enough current to heat them to the point at which they actually burn or melt. fuses can allow more than their rated amperage to pass for a minimal amount of time, after that they will heat up and "blow".
ex: a 60amp fuse and have 100A of current running through it for a little while, but it will blow after it heats up.
