Blew amp fuse?

What would cause both fuses to blow in a amp? It was turned up pretty loud and blew both fuses but only on one amp the other 2 were fine? It didnt blow any main fuses.

well obviously it over amped which means a short of some form....check grounds....if you are running a multi amp you should have a distrubution block...this would make it much easier to trace....something crossed somewhere on just that circuit.....have you replaced the fuses and is it working now?

Ya swapped the fuses and turned it back on. The amp was a bit warm and i think its running 1 ohm. The sun was out and the kid was coming home with it turned up when it went out. I swapped fuses turned it back up and no problem... think it could just be a blip in the amp? The dist block was fine. I also have a 200 amp alt and wonder if it had a hickup in it?

think it just hiccuped....prolly a spike. specially if it was cranking hard. I had a buddy that kept having his shut off....thermal overload.....I worked on it after I discovered he was running 1 ohm and it couldnt due that under extended load....fixed it up and its good to go....he is 2 ohm now and pounding every bit as hard and no more overload. Glad to hear you got a proper distro block in there....so many people dont and just makes me cringe

I hear that ya i have a nice dist block with bouble fuse and feed i hope in the alt goes wild it will pop those before it gets to the amp. I assume the ones on the amp will save any small spikes. It was the bigger of the 2 amps but its only half way on the amp gain the smaller one is just above half. The amps have the input output on them and the big amp is second so i think if it was a alt hickup it would have popped the smaller am i thinking right?

sorry homie...net went screwy and then my girl decided we are going out tonite...job or no job....cooped up. Yea if the alt goes blewy on ya the fuses will take the brunt and pop...unless it slow burns...then that might get scary..........but unlikely. I had a whole thing typed up before I got booted....and then now it wont auto sign me in....weird.

I would try to duplicate everything your son did...down to the music he was playing and try to redo everything and see if it happens again...if it does then I guess we need to investigate further...if it doesnt then problem is solved by minor spike.

Are you saying the bigger of the 2 fuses popped? are the 2 amps fused differently on the fuse block? huh? I know the amps themselves might have different fuses and if you spiked and it stayed below 60 amps (thats what my fuse block distro has in it but over 30 amp...my main fuse ON THE AMP pops....but not my other fuse on the distro....I know it sounds weird....but I have SEVERAL things going into the distro to be fused and then a following fuse on those....I got from 1/0 gauge wire to 4 gauge to 10 to whatever thingy I am wiring to......so even if I spike a lil...my fuse to the device will go...but not my distro...a HUGE spike if my alt goes south....then the distro will pop and everything will shut down on me...then I know I gots issues

Sounds about like what i have the dist has 2 fuses on separate sides so 2 amps on one side and one amp on the other. 2 smaller amps and then the big amp by itself and the big amp was the one that blew. Nope the dist was fine it was just the 2 fuses on the amp. I did replay the same song when i replaced em but only turned it up for a few sec it really hurts. I did ask him he he hit a bump or what was going on when it went.. he said the song came on and he only had the bass at 1/4 then turned it up max then he lost 2 of the subs so he just killed the amps. He has a knob inline on the rcas to the sub amps. Thanks for the info making me think it was just a blip in the amp..... hope it aint going out!!!!