in my little brothers car, i have 2 mtx 10s with my old sony x-plod amp. its a 480watt amp and the subs are brand new roadthunders. the light on the amp should be green and its red. last time i checked, red meant that it was throwing a protection code that needed to be fixed. anyone ever delt with this sort of problem? any solutions?

thanks

 

I have the same problem

 

its prob. gunna xplod

 

so nobody has any ideas?

 

make sure you have a clean ground. also, check your ohm load.

 

the ohm load on the subs shouldnt be much. they are the 10 inch mtx road thunders. i dont know right now, but ill check tomorow if i still have the boxes

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 9d DA6 TEG &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the ohm load on the subs shouldnt be much. they are the 10 inch mtx road thunders. i dont know right now, but ill check tomorow if i still have the boxes</TD></TR></TABLE>If it's a Sony 2ch amp that you have "bridged" and the subs are wired in parallel, and they are 4OHM SVC that is a 2OHM load and that is too low, the Sony 2ch amps are not stable a 2OHMs when bridged.

Also, as b-power said......<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by b-power &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">make sure you have a clean ground.</TD></TR></TABLE>
check the ground. 94

 

so what should i do? i checked the ground with a test light, that came out fine. should i just disconnect one sub and see if just one of them work? because if i did that i would raise the ohm load and hopefully that would make the amp kick in.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 9d DA6 TEG &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">so what should i do? i checked the ground with a test light, that came out fine. should i just disconnect one sub and see if just one of them work? because if i did that i would raise the ohm load and hopefully that would make the amp kick in.</TD></TR></TABLE>If the ground and power are good, and you have metered the speakers and they are ok, then wire the subs in series 8OHMs try that. 94

 

QUOTE=fcm].... then wire the subs in series 8OHMs try that. 94[/QUOTE]

how would i do that?

 

try connecting the subs as normal speakers (i.e. a left and a right)

don't but it into mono mode, and put a low pass filter on the rca cable before the amp.

this way the amp is running at a full 4 ohm setup.

the only problem is that this may not sound great if you play a track that has low down stereo effect (i.e. slightly different noise on the left and right channel.)

you may be able to overcome this by using rca splitters before and after the lowpass filter, therfore combining the channel, and this way you will only need one filter.