denniswynott

Am in need of some help please !

Whilst driving home today listening to some tunes, I heard a small crackle noise and the amp stopped working.

Upon inspection, the earth/ground cable had come off it's mounting point on the amp. No problem I thought, just re-connect and away we go !............

However, now all reconnected, fuses checked and powered up and all I get is the blue power light on the amp just keeps flashing - normally, it just stays lit when the amp is on.

I assume this meants it has a fault ? Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Dennis.

scholesyy

u might have a bad earth

RS500/364

Take the back off i had one just needed to redo a track with some solder and small wire as it had burnt out !

denniswynott

Thanks Peeps ! Not too clued up on this sort of thing to be honest so might just take it to my local car audio place and see if they can fix it !

mark

the earth/groundcould of hit the live
the flassing light is safe mode or sumthing like that
just whip it out and take it to a shop had this happen to one of my amps cost Ł20 to fix

NoRubNoDub

Happened to me, the power and earth had touched, turned out some how the RCA lead had somehow got blew off the back of the headunit, weird...

cjwood555

What can happen (depending on design) is that the earth current finds the next easiest route, which is usually the signal return (ground of the rca lead). Obviously the signal sections of the amp aren't designed for 30 odd amps, so could well have burnt some tracks or blown some low power resistors. Have a look inside

Chris