OMG look at this

[dustin420 0]

a spanish newspaper with chicks wrestling. haha not really but keep reading.

First wanna say a BIG thanks to Danssoslow for just sending this to me for nothing. Thanks. now onto pics.

its a vulcan VI by hifonics. pretty old school amp. now from what i understand its a 2 channel amp. so im assuming that the red/black are power and ground and the one set of wires are marked - and + so im assumeing the orange is remote and the other set is the other channel? if so which is positive and which is negative? anyway thanks to danssoslow im sure ill put it to use. ohh haven't had a chance to hook it up but will tommorrow for sure. thanks Dustin.

[danssoslow 0]

As I remember, we had it hooked up mono to one sub. The pair that is sleeved with the romex sheathing should be the set used. I believe two were capped off, and the remote had a connector on it. I found an online owner's manual; let me find it.

Edit:

I'm not coming remotely close to finding it. Damn you, Google, damn you!!!

Edited August 27, 2008 by danssoslow

[dustin420 0]

ahh so only one channel works? when i got it the brown and green wires were capped and the purple and grey were open. the open ones have the - and + marked while the other set doesn't? i took and make custom connectors for all the wires.

[KU40 173]

As I took it, mono = bridged.

[dustin420 0]

ya figured it out found a diagram on the internet. the purple/green are one channel and grey/brown is the other channel. purple/grey is to brigde it. thanks agian danssoslow.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Classic.

[dustin420 0]

ok went out today and everything worked fine, mono ch, L ch, R ch all worked but i have 2 conserns.

1) the gain since it maxs out at 1volt idk if it will work with my HU since it has 2.5v outs. i had it hooked up to the sub and with volume on 20 the sub was going pretty good and around 30 you could start to hear some clipping/distortion i didn't go past 30. and this is with the gain all the way down. so im not sure how its gonna do on highs if i can't turn it up past 30 cause the out voltage is too much.

2) the amp went into protect mode twice. now i don't know why i might have touched two wires together or something but all i did was flip the switch in the remote to turn to amp off and it came right back on and worked fine so. just figured i'd let you know.

[KU40 173]

1) the gain since it maxs out at 1volt idk if it will work with my HU since it has 2.5v outs. i had it hooked up to the sub and with volume on 20 the sub was going pretty good and around 30 you could start to hear some clipping/distortion i didn't go past 30.

hmm, I remember saying this would happen in another thread and somebody else saying it wouldn't/couldn't........

As for what to do, you're pretty much stuck between two options. The first would be to scrap this amp for something that can handle the input voltage. The second would be to just turn the gains up on your other amps so that they max out at 20 on your head unit volume as well. You'll obviously lose some steps in loudness between notches on the head unit. But 20 should be enough. I guess it all depends on how much you love this new amp.

When did the amp shut off? Was it during your full tilt runs or just randomly? If during full tilt, it may have overdrive protection on it. It sensed the clipping and shut down. If just randomly, maybe it's a lose wire arcing and shorting the load.

Edited August 28, 2008 by KU40

[dustin420 0]

well that sucks, don't really wanna turn chit down. idk for now im just gonna wait till my speaks come hook em up to the amp and see whatthey sound like on 30. then ill decide from there. the first time it went into protect was when i was testing to see if the channels work, hhoked up right ch worked then hooked up left ch and nothing so i think when i unhooked the r ch the wires touched. the second time though i had mono 4ohm and was playing with the volumes whenit went into protect so. but all i did was flip the remote toggle switch and it came right back on and never did it again so idk.