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Old Oct 18, 2005 | 10:01 PM
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When did it start blowing fuses. Just all the sudden or when you did sometihng?
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Old Oct 18, 2005 | 10:49 PM
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ya just all of the sudden it quit working but it was like 2 weeks after i got an optima redtop so i checked the fuses and they were blown. Put new ones in and it blew those, so I tried messing with my stereo and amp settings and it blew 2 more sets. i think the RCA cable got pinched or something.
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Old Oct 18, 2005 | 10:55 PM
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Man when i had that problem I had the power plugged into the negative and the negative plugged into power terminals on the amp.
Hey but the power and ground cables were the same color so Im not that dumb

Man I dont really know what to tell you rty what fatal said cause you could have a short in a speaker or something causing it but and rca I dont believe would cause that. It would ahve to be cut and sending power down both terminals to the amp and even then I dont believe it would do that.
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Old Oct 18, 2005 | 11:15 PM
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Hey but the power and ground cables were the same color so Im not that dumb
haha me too but I checked them and it right.

IDK either but my only guess is that its the RCA's....or the remote.....who knows
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Old Oct 19, 2005 | 02:40 AM
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rca's or the remote will not cause your amp to blow fuses.


once an amp has been hooked up backwards..... it's toast. it will blow the fuses but it's too late. even switching wires, it will continue to blow fuses. since you got a new amp, and it does the same thing.... i'd triple check the + and - to make sure they're not mixed up.

but you said it played for a couple weeks and then went bad? put an ohm meter on the speaker wires at the amp. could be a short. and a bad speaker can also be the source of a short.
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