This question is pertaining to a car audio amplifier that I have bridged to 2 Kicker sub woofers. One day I realized that my system didn't have as much of a kick as usual. I faded the equalizer on the head unit and discovered that when I faded too the left that my sub woofers cut out. I later determined that my left RCA input on the amp was dead. Seeing as how I got a great deal on my amp and knew it would be hard to replace I decided to open it up and take a look. Now I am not a electrician or anything but I did see a resistor on the inside of the amp that was blown. It was my best guess on the problem. So I replaced the resistor. The only problem is that I was not sure on what resistor was originally there. I could only make out one color strip on it. So I replaced it with a larger resistor than what was originally there. I know I got the gold strip at the bottom correct though because that was the only band I knew for sure. I put the amp back together and everything sounded great. The amp didn't light up anymore. But I didn't really care about that. But after a while I noticed that the signal would still go in and out. So my problem was not fixed. And this is the unusual part...the one day I was driving around. I faded my head unit to the left and no subs were playing. I decided to crank the volume to like 15 and all of a sudden I started to hear the subs kick in...not at full volume but they were there. Then I turned it up to volume 20 and boom, the subs kicked in full power and I had to turn it down. I turned the volume back down and put the fade back to zero and my system sounded fine again. Sometime when I turn the car on both Left and Right subs are working (not normally though), but most the time the left is not working and I have to fade too the left and turn it up real loud for the sub to kick in. Any ideas on what this problem could be? Could it have anything too do with the resistor I put in? Or was the resistor most likely never my problem too begin with and something else is going on? Sorry for the lengthy question. Any help would be appreciated.
Additional Info:
Amplifier : 3000 watt Cliff Design Amp (let me know if anyone needs the model number, I don't know it off hand)
http://www.the12volt.com/12voltimages/2_4ohm_dvc_1ohm.gif
This is how I do believe I have everything wired.
Additional Info:
Amplifier : 3000 watt Cliff Design Amp (let me know if anyone needs the model number, I don't know it off hand)
http://www.the12volt.com/12voltimages/2_4ohm_dvc_1ohm.gif
This is how I do believe I have everything wired.