Help me please

OK, first off I need to know whether your subs are dual 4ohm or 2ohm subs.

secondly, i need a link to the amp you bought. Just to make sure you have the subs wired properly. if your impedance is too low then you risk screwing up the amp. disconnect it for now until we get this figured out.

Also, i need to know how you wired everything and what gauge wires you used.
1. Are you fused under the hood? what's the size of the fuse?
2. I need to know how you ran your power and what side of the car you ran the wire.
3. where your grounds are located. and what side of the car you ran the ground.
4. where your RCA's are connected and what side you ran the RCA's.

 

your RCA's should run on the opposite side as your power. they shouldn't get ran together.

Is your ground wire ground to BARE metal? if not, you should sand it down to bare metal then reconnect it.

It also sounds to me like your wires are way too small. you should be using at least 4ga wires for installing that amp. Like i said before, just disconnect it for now then buy a set of 4ga wires at like a walmart or something.

Your power wire going to the amp from the battery should be fused near the battery with a 100amp fuse if that's the only amp you are currently using.

Lastly, I really have to know whether your subs are either dual 4ohm or 2ohm subs. do you have the amp bridged right now or are you wiring 1 sub to each channel of the amp?

 

how did you wire the subs up? can you explain it? did anybody help you do it?

with those kinds of subs, they have 2 voice coils so they have 2 sets of +'s and -'s.

I think that's where your main problem is, you wired the subs to an impedance way too low for the amp. When you have the amp bridged, it can only handle a 4ohm impedance.

 

oh, by the way, i just want to make sure... are you running 2 10" L7's?

 

no no no no... that's not how you bridge an amp.. you get the outter left side of the amp for the positive for the speaker connections and the outter right side negative for the negative. that will bridge the amp and give you 960 watts RMS x 1 bridged output at 4 ohms (4-ohm stable in bridged mode).

you have to wire the subs like this (assuming that your subs are dual 4ohm subs).

 

here's a pic of where to put the wires from your subs after you follow the proper wiring diagram for the subs.

 

ok, are you very sure???

if you are then be sure to buy a 4ga amp kit at walmart before hooking up the amp again and make sure you fuse it with a 100amp fuse under the hood close to the battery..

Can you get your hands on a DMM (digital multimeter)? Since you don't know the impedance of your subs you should check to make sure before connecting them to your amp again. It's very important for your amps sake to know the impedance of your subs. they may be dual 2ohm subs which could fry your amp if you wired it like i showed you above.

If you can get your hands on a DMM, here's how you'll check the impedance of your subs:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5068180_measure-speaker-impedance.html

 

it would make a huge difference.

if your subs are dual 2ohm and you wired them in series/parallel then it would give you a final impedance of only 2ohms. your amp while it's bridged can only handle a 4ohm load, if you have it wired for a 2ohm load then it COULD and most likely will fry your amp... that's why it's imperative to find out what your subs are. DVC 4ohm or DVC 2ohm subs...

 

that's very important too. if the wires are too small then you can run a risk of the wires getting hot and even burning.

the subs can handle the amp but the amp can't handle the subs if they are wired wrong.