Every time I connect speakers to my amp, the protected light turns on?

Question

I have a 200 watt amp with 10 gauge cable

Answer 1

I won't pretend to be a know-it-all, but, I have heard from the professionals...that if you have a speaker set up, with duel voice coil, and you don't use that other coil, and go to bump your system too hard, you'll blow your speakers...if you have single coil speakers, and your protection light is constantly on...ck the heat sinks, fan if it has one, and all grounds and hot wires...if nothing else...return the amp, or sell it off and count your losses, and up grade....but, most importainly...get to know your system, rms on the speakers, total peak wattage of your amp, freq....if you bought the amp from a homie, find out if it did this before...definately, don't bump too hard til u get this figured out...check everything out, and then re check it, in case u missed something...and watch it be something simple...most problems are, we just over complicate them...good luck..if nothing i said works, hit me up with your e-mail add...and I'll talk to one of my boys who does the car audio systems comp. level....l8r

Answer 2

Not to make this worse for you, but that amp sucks. I bought the Fusion Bass Package at Best Buy with that same amp and one 12" sub and the sub is great and loud, but no matter what sub or subs you put to that amp it cuts out and go into protection mode. I got the package with 4 year extension warranty and replaced the sub and amp like 4 times. Still the amp cuts out. I replaced it with a Sony Xplod 4 channel amp and two 10" Kenwood subs. I bridged the two subs to make the 4 channel into 2 channels pushing the subs. I have not had a cutout on the Sony amp once, and that is using that amp even harder than I was with the Fusion amp. So that just tell you that the amp is crap. I am not sending the package back. I am going to keep the 12" sub and get a bigger amp later and have the two 10" and one 12" hooked up. You need a different. Stay away from that amp.

Answer 3

if the protection light is not coming on until you connect the speaker wires then you need to check the speaker wires for nicks ( bare spots of exposed wire ) if you don't find any then it may be something wrong with the voice coil of the speakers. try hooking up another speaker and see if it does the same thing.

Answer 4

check all wires back to the battery and the deck. See if any wires are exposed and touching metal. That is almost always the case. The light comes on to let you know that something is wrong, otherwise the amp would blow.

Answer 5

you need to make sure that all of your wires (ground,power,antenna,and audio cables) are plugged in. your antenna wire needs to be on a auxiliary source also. normally if you are running a after market stereo it will have auxiliary wire (light blue)

Answer 6

perhaps the speaker wires are nicked and making contact carefully inspect and replace if necessary

Answer 7

you need to jump it from the 12v(prob there) or power slot to the RNV slot