Kenwood KDC X996 Gets super hot quick

[fred57 2]

I have  a Kenwood KDC X996 and it gets super hot after about 10 minutes or more of playing at volume 25 or 26 out of like 35 like cook an egg hot. I wired it using just tape an made sure it's connected good. The ground is connected to factory wire..Could it be the ground, RCA's?? ..no aftermarket amp and using stock speakers

[Jason Witt 65]

It is shorting somewhere or is simply overloaded.

[nadcicle 77]

I second the short. 

 

I have 6 speakers playing on mine without any overload constantly playing at around 32 volume.

Edited March 22, 2013 by nadcicle

[ParrishElectronics 6]

There are head units that can run hot, but it does seem to be a little odd for it to run THAT hot.  Do you have a multi-meter?  I would double check the factory speakers and make sure they are not less than 4 ohms.  Probably not, but just to be sure.  I would then check speaker wires to ground to make sure there isn't a short.  Of course, do this with power OFF.  Factory speakers and factory wiring can be funny sometimes.

[fred57 2]

It's only when i have my amplifer in use for my subs, without that amp hooked up i can play regular music on my speakers long as i want an it doesn't even change temperature. Has something to do with those being hooked up? could it be the subwoofer settings how i have it set to 80hertz and my LPF on my amp fighting the deck settings? altho i have the LPF set to around there on the amp but hard to tell if it's exact.

[nadcicle 77]

It's only when i have my amplifer in use for my subs, without that amp hooked up i can play regular music on my speakers long as i want an it doesn't even change temperature. Has something to do with those being hooked up? could it be the subwoofer settings how i have it set to 80hertz and my LPF on my amp fighting the deck settings? altho i have the LPF set to around there on the amp but hard to tell if it's exact.

 

I'm curious to see if you found the issue and I wanted to add in some more thoughts. I know when i set the gain on the amp I made sure the HU Sub gain was set to 0. I also use the sub gain on -15 daily. I can't even get mine to get hot so maybe your unit is defective.

 

I keep mine set to 80hz as well so that's out. Last I would check continuity throughout the RCA with a DMM to make sure you aren't getting anything unwanted coming through the line.