Well I have a 91 civic hatch with a in-dash dvd/tv and dual amps one is 760 watts and the other is 600. I have the cap, optima yellow top battery and all with the dual amp wiring kit. So i was driving and all of a sudden i get this weird hicup/ poping noise. I checked all my wiring and even replaced the amps and the tv and still nothing. When i looked at the speakers they would play very low and then just pop up like every 2 seconds or so. Everything was fine it just started to happen out of the blue. my question is could it be my alternator that couldn't handle all that anymore or could it be something else? I doubt it to be anything else b/c i already trouble shooted the rest of the system. Anyone ever experienced this b4?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 91civichatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well I have a 91 civic hatch with a in-dash dvd/tv and dual amps one is 760 watts and the other is 600. I have the cap, optima yellow top battery and all with the dual amp wiring kit. So i was driving and all of a sudden i get this weird hicup/ poping noise. I checked all my wiring and even replaced the amps and the tv and still nothing. When i looked at the speakers they would play very low and then just pop up like every 2 seconds or so. Everything was fine it just started to happen out of the blue. my question is could it be my alternator that couldn't handle all that anymore or could it be something else? I doubt it to be anything else b/c i already trouble shooted the rest of the system. Anyone ever experienced this b4?</TD></TR></TABLE> The speakers will "pop" if the amp/amps turn off, for a split sec., and then back on again, for any reason, and the most common is a poor connection on the power or ground, if on your dual amp kit you have a power splitter fuseblock and it uses glass "barrel type" fuses, check them, they have so much resistance that they can get hot enough to melt the solder that holds the "fuse" to the end caps, the fuse looks good, and may even test ok, but, put a load on them and the connection is bad or intermitent, also if the 1360watts is RMS power and you haven't installed a bigger alt. and beefed up the grounds in the engine bay, take the car to a batt./alt. shop and have them do a load and grav. check on the charging system, if all you have is a stock alt. it will not produce enough power to keep up with the sound system, and will be damaged sooner or later, the cap and batt., you have will not prevent this from happening, if you need 150 amps and the alt. only puts out 90 amps, it makes no diff. how many caps or what kind of batt. you install, the alt. will still only put out 90 amps 94

 

your a genuis...i checked the fuse distribution block and like u said the end of the fuse melted and wasn't makin full contact. Now when i have time i'll put it all back in the car and see if that did it. Hope it works and again THANK YOU!!! i would of never noticed that

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 91civichatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">your a genuis...i checked the fuse distribution block and like u said the end of the fuse melted and wasn't makin full contact. Now when i have time i'll put it all back in the car and see if that did it. Hope it works and again THANK YOU!!! i would of never noticed that </TD></TR></TABLE>LOL, no i'm not, just an installer that has seen it lots of times, I have even seen that type of fuse get so hot that it has melted the plastic fuseholder so bad that you cant take it apart 94

 

well again thank you and i'll start working on puttin in ALL back in tomorrow morning and hope it all works out. If not i'll be looking for you lol