he never said it was 1000 rms.

 

yes but i asked how many watts rms and he replied 1000 so i have to assume thats what he ment

 

forget RMS.
Car Voltage, Amperage on fuses

E * I = Watts
Voltage will never exceed 15V in a car and the fuses will blow at specified ratings.

I've seen 850W "RMS" amplifiers with a 30 A fuse. Root Mean Square of a sine wave means nothing these days. Amplifiers will blow fuses before they go to thier max voltage as well. The only way you can calculate any value off an amplifier is car voltage * amperage rating on fuses

 

well he said he was running 1000 watts so my natural assumption for that with 0 gauge wire would be rms. cause if he is runing 0 gauge with 1000 watt max he is shooting himself in the foo.t it is a waste of time, weight, money, and wire to run that with 1000 watt max.

but back to the subject at hand. try disconnecting everything at the amp power, ground, remote, speakers, rca cables... everything! then hook it back up if that does not fix it then go to the location of the wires at the speakers, battery, head unit, ground and do the same disconect it all then hook it back up, but before you do any of that check all the fuses that have anything to do with your stereo. cause it would suck to do all that work when it was a fuse that you never would have thought could cause that.

 

remember some amps have fuses themself

check the fuses on the amp and the fuse on your power line
hell check everything

if you reconnect it and its still not getting out of protection then you probably have a bad amp

 

^^^^ did u even read my post?

Fuse will not activate protection.

Every amplifier has a fuse on/in it.

 

ok lets not turn this into a b**** fest everyone may not be as educated as you in this field but they are making an honest effort to help this guy out so cut the b.s. out and just give hime information that may help him not ... DID YOU EVEN READ MY POST??? like your pussy hurts cause some one ignored you

 

Simple way to see if your amps fried or its something else in the car....Find a friend with a sub in his car and just swap out amps. Take his amp out and put yours in to see if it works. If the amps messed up, then it will still be in protection and not work while in you friends car. If its something else thats screwed up in your car, then your amp should work fine in your friends car.

Btw...If I were running a 1000 amp, id be using 0g wiring also.