I have a 4 channel amp, wired into 2 6 1/2 speakers. When I turn my stereo up past a certain point it just cuts in and out, but below that point it plays fine, I am banging my head on the wall, does anyone have any ideas as to what this could be, thanks for the help. BTW, I have reversed the positive and negative wires for the speakers, still does not work, I have changed the channels, still does not work.

 

Could you be hitting thermal shut off, or protection? What is your amp setup? It could just be overworking it. Are you sure the speakers ohms are hi enough for the amp? That causes premey cut off too..

 

Nah, it actually starts doing this as soon as I go over 12, not very loud at all, and even when I first turn the car on. The speakers are regular pioneer 3 ways and the amp is a JVC 4 channel...

 

i wouldnt understand why its cutting of at such a low volume - assuming ur headunit probably goes all the way to bout 30.

but afaik cutting out could point to loss of power / clipping of sorts. because ur trying to send too much power / gain into the speakers, and u dont have enouhg, it just shuts off before blowing something else?

i could be wrong though.

 

How do you have the speakers wired, it sounds like an Ohm problem perhaps,

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Goatsterrman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">How do you have the speakers wired, it sounds like an Ohm problem perhaps, </TD></TR></TABLE>Or a bad speaker, try and ballance to one or the other speaker and see if the amp still cuts out, at full excurtion some speakers impedence will drop to near 0 , or dead short, most amps don't like that, and that would make it an OHMs problem. 94

 

I will try to do that...I have them wired mono...it also cut off when I wired them regular, using the 2 channels on the left side so to speak.

 

I replaced the wiring and it went away, I isolated it by hooking up one speaker at a time as suggested, thanks for the help.

 

I have that same problem! I have 2 pioneer 4-ways, and I bought a old school Jensen 220w (2ch) amp for $10 from a friend. With the gain all the way down, and the speakers wired each to their own channel, the amp goes into protection mode when the HU reaches volume 7! AHhhhh! Any help would be great.

 

My wire was shorted, or had an opening in it somewhere, I replaced the wire on the bum speaker and it went away...just connect them one at a time and see which is causing it to do that...that's how I got my problem fixed.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hybridrex &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My wire was shorted, or had an opening in it somewhere, I replaced the wire on the bum speaker and it went away...just connect them one at a time and see which is causing it to do that...that's how I got my problem fixed.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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