Am I strapping my amps right ?

[morales3592]

So I have two soundstream ta1.3000d amps. I have the negatives connected together on both amps. And positive lead going to master amp and negative to slave. It's loud as hell and seems to be working fine. Problem is one amp gets hotter than other. I have nice electrical and voltage stays at 14+ 90% of the time. What's weird also is I have RCA's going to master and that's it. No RCA's going to other slave. :/

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[ilikeradios 10+ year member]

I do not think so

RCA SIGNAL CONNECTIONS:

Step 1. Connect the Master amplifier to the head-unit (duh!) and set the amplifier’s output-master/input-slave switch to Output Master.

Step 2. Set Slave amplifier output-master/input-slave switch to Slave Input.

Step 3. From the ONE RCA-Connector – that has a line from said switch – Connect an RCA cable from the Master to Slave amplifier.

Also is your final ohm load at least 2 ohms?

 

[morales3592]

Dual 2 subs wired to .5 ohms lol!!! Taking it like a champ. Even on the hardest hitting songs it won't turn off or go into protect

 

[morales3592]

I hooked up RCA's from line out on master to line in on slave and it doesn't do anything. Sounds the same lol

 

[ilikeradios 10+ year member]

FYI - your amps are "seeing" a .25 ohm load, I seriously doubt they will last very long.

 

[morales3592]

I'm aware of that. But after box rise they are "seeing" about .8 each and more depending the frequency

 

[shredder1 10+ year member]

smile now... cry later

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

So if your "aware" of what your doing, why did you come here crying about it?

 

[morales3592]

Not crying simply asking a simple question. I have e no issues other than one amp warms up more than other and I would think they would heat up the same. People here get butt hurt so easily. I didn't mean any disrespect to anyone.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Faaarrrr from butthurt little guy.

Your the only one in this thread creating a post about overheating amps. That's "crying" if you shall take it as. But...

ilikeradios has answered your question, post #2 .

 

[germanyt 10+ year member]

Is the master or slave getting hot? Sounds to me like you might be getting power from just the master and because it's seeing a .25 or .5 ohm load that could be why it's getting hot. If you don't have any difference when connecting and disconnecting the line in on the slave then something is wrong.

 

[morales3592]

It's actually the slave amp. I borrowed a clamp and multimeter from my friend and going to check outputs and see what kinda power I'm getting