Two Amps Installed but One is cutting out
 

I'm having a problem with one of my amps cutting out when heavy bass hits.
It is a 4/3/2 channel kenwood that is cutting out. The other amp is a Road
Gear peice of crap 2 channel amp. When I run them separately there is no
problem.. I can crank it as loud as I want and nothing is wrong. However
when I run both of them, the Kenwood cuts out when the bass hits. The
kenwood is wired for 3 channels, two of them bridged to a sub. It doesn't
matter how low i set the gains, the amp just cuts out, but the road gear
doesn't cut out... It seems to cut out less when I lower the gains on the
road gear... is there something wrong with it? I was thinking about picking
up another amp and hooking that one up to see if it does the same. If anyone
has any input it would be greatly appreciated.

neL

Two Amps Installed but One is cutting out
 

"Corwin" wrote in message
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I'm having a problem with one of my amps cutting out when heavy bass hits.
It is a 4/3/2 channel kenwood that is cutting out. The other amp is a Road
Gear peice of crap 2 channel amp. When I run them separately there is no
problem.. I can crank it as loud as I want and nothing is wrong. However
when I run both of them, the Kenwood cuts out when the bass hits. The
kenwood is wired for 3 channels, two of them bridged to a sub. It doesn't
matter how low i set the gains, the amp just cuts out, but the road gear
doesn't cut out... It seems to cut out less when I lower the gains on the
road gear... is there something wrong with it? I was thinking about
picking
up another amp and hooking that one up to see if it does the same. If
anyone
has any input it would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like bad voltdrop to me. What cabling is feeding the amps??

Tim..


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Two Amps Installed but One is cutting out
 

Corwin wrote:
I'm having a problem with one of my amps cutting out when heavy
bass hits. It is a 4/3/2 channel kenwood that is cutting out. The
other amp is a Road Gear peice of crap 2 channel amp. When I run
them separately there is no problem.. I can crank it as loud as I
want and nothing is wrong. However when I run both of them, the
Kenwood cuts out when the bass hits. The kenwood is wired for 3
channels, two of them bridged to a sub. It doesn't matter how low i
set the gains, the amp just cuts out, but the road gear doesn't cut
out... It seems to cut out less when I lower the gains on the road
gear... is there something wrong with it? I was thinking about
picking up another amp and hooking that one up to see if it does
the same. If anyone has any input it would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like bad voltdrop to me. What cabling is feeding the amps??

Tim..

Its got about 12 feet of 10 Guage Stinger wire going from the
Powersource to the distribution block, then 1-2 ft more 10 guage
going to the Kenwood amp, and then some cheap 16ish guage going from
the distribution block to the Road Gear amp. The grounds are the same
size as the power wires respectively... you think the 16 guage stuff
is too small maybe?

Definately.
You should probably use 8 gauge to the distribution block and then more 8 or
10 to the amps.
16 is way too thin.
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Two Amps Installed but One is cutting out
 

"Dr Zoidberg" wrote in message
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Corwin wrote:
I'm having a problem with one of my amps cutting out when heavy
bass hits. It is a 4/3/2 channel kenwood that is cutting out. The
other amp is a Road Gear peice of crap 2 channel amp. When I run
them separately there is no problem.. I can crank it as loud as I
want and nothing is wrong. However when I run both of them, the
Kenwood cuts out when the bass hits. The kenwood is wired for 3
channels, two of them bridged to a sub. It doesn't matter how low i
set the gains, the amp just cuts out, but the road gear doesn't cut
out... It seems to cut out less when I lower the gains on the road
gear... is there something wrong with it? I was thinking about
picking up another amp and hooking that one up to see if it does
the same. If anyone has any input it would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like bad voltdrop to me. What cabling is feeding the amps??

Tim..

Its got about 12 feet of 10 Guage Stinger wire going from the
Powersource to the distribution block, then 1-2 ft more 10 guage
going to the Kenwood amp, and then some cheap 16ish guage going from
the distribution block to the Road Gear amp. The grounds are the same
size as the power wires respectively... you think the 16 guage stuff
is too small maybe?

Definately.
You should probably use 8 gauge to the distribution block and then more 8
or
10 to the amps.
16 is way too thin.

I would say 10 gauge is way too thin also, especially over 12feet! This is
likely where the voltdrop is happening. I used 6 gauge as the main feed
battery to boot in my Focus (about 7 foot) and 8 gauge between the two amps
I have. Voltage still drops from 13 (battery, engine running) to just under
12 at high volume when the sub kicks.

Tim..


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