[hans5849]

I hooked up a Cap to my car stereo recently and ever since my AMPs protection light has been flashing on and off. So I removed the Cap from the citcuit and it still did it. then I put another AMP in and the same problem came back. What do you guys think could be causing this?

[Torx]

make sure you have no wires grounding, make sure your getting a good voltage input or else the amp will go into protection mode.. make sure youre not feeding the amp an ohm load it cant handle, it can go into protection from that.. make sure you got the right size fuse on the main at the battery, make sure its getting good ventilation, overheating can cause protection

[hans5849]

I forgot to mention this is a intermittent problem, the green light comes on and then the red will flash on. Sometimes the system would work fine for a few days then stop working for a few hours and work again.

I'll double check the wires, I'm going to try and combine the amp and caps grounding wires to the same wire (right now they go to the same point but use two wires to get there).

How do I check the ohm load?

The fuses in the line are good, and the ventilation well its been a high of 30 for the last few days so that shouldn't be a factor but its in my trunk mounted with out obstruction to the ventilation.

[hans5849]

It was the speaker load in a way, the tape I had used on a speaker set came off and they were crossing.

[offroadin]

Originally Posted by hans5849

It was the speaker load in a way, the tape I had used on a speaker set came off and they were crossing.

Tape?? lol. I think you may have more problems in store

[hans5849]

lol, yea I put new connectors on so it should be good. The old connectors weren't attached very well.