Larger fuse for my amp or not?

Question

I have a 1000 Watt Kicker amp with 2 15's and 2 6X9's hooked to my computer I use a standard truck battery to power the amp and a charger/maintainer to keep it charged but my question is when I get above 50 Decibels my fuses blow they are 35's and there's two of them so should I get a larger rated fuse or will this hurt my amp?

Answer 1

"50 is rattling your chest and breathing for you lol"???

My subs hit around 115dB and that's low.

In fact my subs will push 92dB with only 1 watt of power each.

The fuse may be blowing because you have too much of a load with the four speakers or you don't have the gain set right. If you can find out what fuses came with the amp, go with those. bigger fuses is just asking for trouble.

The purpose of the gain is to match the signal volts RMS coming from the source (CD player, etc.) to the input of the amp to prevent clipping (damage by over powering).

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Answer 2

NO. Do not put bigger fuses on an amp. ALWAYS use the correct fuses that the amp calls for! The entire purpose of an amp using a specific fuse size is is so that if something malfunctions, in the case that you are having, it can protect something from happening to the amp.

What is the model # of the Kicker amp?... What are the ohm loads that the Kicker amp is stable at, and what is the lowest load?

Okay, are the 2 15's single or dual voice coil? Are they 4 ohm or 2 ohm subs? .......

~2 single voice coil 4 ohm subs can only produce 2 or 8 ohm.

~2 dual voice coil 4 ohm subs can only produce 1 or 4 ohm.

~2 single voice coil 2 ohm subs can only produce 1 or 4 ohm.

~2 dual voice coil 2 ohm subs can only produce .5 or 2 ohm.

Do you have the 6x9's wired to the amp too? That will also change the ohm load your amp is recieving.

Be sure to check the settings! It could be as simple as everything being turned up too much on the amp. You do not have to crank All of the adjustments on the amp. Use the frequency minimally and whatever suits you w/ the bass boost. The best way to set the gain is to turn it all the way down, turn the volume up to the level you usually blast it to, and tweek the gain right around where the distortion comes in.

Also, don't crank the settings too high on the cd player, especially when choosing to crank the settings on the amp. Try to never use more than 90% of the gain on the amp, whereas, it will stress the amp too much, and possibly melt fuses, etc. That usually only creates distortion, and distortion potentially blows subs. If you feel 90% gain is not enough, it's definately time to get a bigger amp - it's better to have too much power, than not enough... you can always turn it down.

Follow the wiring guide and try re-adjusting your settings. Good luck!