I got a Sony 4-channel amp and when I was about to relocate it I accindentally took the ground wire and touched the amp which cause a spark. Now the amp power light glows amber when I try to power it up. Green light means power and protection suppose to light up red...i think. But anyways, I didn't shorted the speaker output so could it possibly be in protection mode? or did I just fried the whole amp?

 

ulway unhook the negative side of the battery before doing any wiring

 

does the amp internal fuses?
if so, check them...if they are blown that will cause the amp to protect, other things that might happen could be, a solder ball melted off due to the crossing, or something on the board blew.

 

so did you blow it?

 

Yeah, I checked the fuse and it didn't blow. I even open the amp to see if I can detect any burnt or out of extrodinary circuitry. I not a electrical engineer so I don't know what to look for..hehee.
Funny tho, how my kenwood amp had an additional ground point on the amp frame itself. Never ground that but I assume nothing major will happen to an amp if a ground hit the frame. Guess, I was wrong Why don't they built an amp with reset button when something like this happen....arghhh

 

all i saw was sony and amp and if its not work 90% chance u blew it...i fried my old sony 760 2 channel..it got dominated by 2 subs.....umm....they have a 1 year factory warrenty take it back where u got it and see if they can help u send it in...it didn't cost me a dime to get it fixed but i didn't have it for like a month or 2 kinda sucked but yea.

 

I'm gonna agree with KW93LUDE on this, if its under warranty, send it back and have it repaired/replaced. cause if something on the board did blow, you dont wanna try and fix it :D

 

Amp is over 2 yrs old. No warranty. Going into the trash can unless someone wants it to mess around.

 

i will take amp.
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hehe, you're gonna love this, this happened to me, not long ago,
open up the amp, (if you want), and right on top of every amp, there are black square units, there is probably 10 of them on a 2 channel amp. they are all lined up, anyways, one of those is burnt out, you can see it because of all the black smoke around its area,
run down to a chip factory, they are 60 cents - 1$ , get one of those, and put it in,

worked for me,

do this, you should be fine


ps. i have a new problem now, due to pulling wire accidentally, now my fuse burns out instantly as soon as i put 1 in, but its not dead.