when i listen to my soundsystem, sometimes the subs just stop working for about 10 seconds...?

Question

i have two 12" Rockford Fosgate P3 subs, powered by 2400 watt Orion Amp. how do i get this to stop happening?

Answer 1

Measure voltage into the amp and check the resistance of the speakers. I bet you shake the earth! And have a rail road train size alternator. Your car voltage could be falling below the minimum needed by the amp so it shuts down.

Answer 2

there can be a number of issues causing your problem. usually it's wiring related. sometimes it's hardware related. the rest of the time it's user error.


start by ruling out user error. play a song that usually shuts the subs off. turn it up to the level that you normally listen to it when they shut off.
open the compartment the subs are in and pay attention not to how loud they are, but the quality of sound coming from them. if you notice any distortion/clipping, then you need to back off the volume a bit. the distortion/clipping is what's shutting the amp down. be sure that your "gain" is not set all the way up. this knob is not a volume control, but an input level control. usually about 1/2-3/4 is were it needs to be.


check all of your connections. be sure that everything is tight, and nothing is touching that shouldn't be. often times a short in a power/ground wire will cause the amp to go into protection mode, and shut it down for a short period of time.

next, be sure that your subs are hooked up properly, and functioning correctly. after a visual inspection try running the system with one of the subs unhooked. then try the same test with the other unhooked. this will often point to a bad sub if there is in fact a bad one.

Answer 3

I have 2 rockford 10s and I had the same problem. I bought mine at bestbuy and about a week later this began happening especially on songs that hit hard for short but rapid periods of time. I took my car to cartronics and they tested the ohms and the bestbuy guys just wired it wrong in order to get the maximum power out of my amp, but instead I couldn't listen to music and it almost burnt my amp up. So I would take it to a local car audio specialty store and have them look at it. The guys at cartronics fixed mine for free in about 5 minutes and it has never shut off since. Good Luck and nice system!

Answer 4

i dont know if this is true with orion amps but my system used to do this as well and I had an alpine amp. When I turned the volume up too high, the amp would shut off as a safety feature to protect the subs from recieving too much power. Its either that or you have a bad ground somewhere.

Answer 5

Voice coil issues. in case you push on the cone slightly (off axis, very slightly to the side - no longer directly down) and it tries to play - removing the chilly solder subject from the connections to the spider/cone, it seems such as you have a shorted coil. I certainly have seen some drivers saved by fact it grew to become into on the topic of distant places gadgets (sand, crap like that that have been given previous the dirt cap or up the vented exhibit screen interior the magnet) try blowing it out with a can of compressed air such as you may use to bathe a working laptop or computer keyboard.

Answer 6

I personally had a similar experience with my system. My problem was that the amp couldn't handle the voltage my amp was trying to pull. Try replacing the fuse with a bigger one.

Answer 7

first check your battery i bet this happens when the car is running and the fan goes in the woofers stop working and then work fine see check your current or buy a capacitor

Answer 8

maybe thermally protected,self resetting breaker...stop overdriving them...