Well. Im not sure whats going on. I have my Subs and rear speakers run off of two different amps (see sig). A week ago, it seemed that whenever I hit the brakes my subs and both rear speakers shut off. But they soon came back on. I pushed my sub box as far back into place as possible because it is not bolted down. That fixed the problem I think. Im not sure if the sub was pushing the amp and yanking on the wires or what. But today, when I went around a turn my rear speakers shut off, but then came back on a few seconds later. The sub box didn't move or anything, so that couldn't have been the problem. The only things the two amps have in common are the remote wire. I have my remote wire going to the four channel amp remote connector, and the sub amp is run by a remote wire from the four channel amp to the sub amp's connector. That might be the problem, but agian I'm not sure. Everything is also grounded at the same point. It is about 40 degrees outside, so overheating is very unlikely. Any help would be great, as I don't know much about problem shooting amps.

 

starting checking all the wires to see if they're secured. something is obviously loose...since it's making sporadic connection from the car's movments.

 

I guess I'll have to do that. On the way home from work, both the subs and the rear speakers turned off again. But they soon came back on. It wouldn't have anything to do with me daisy-chaining the remote wires from amp to amp would it?

 

Probably a loose connection as stated, if ANY of the wires are loose it could cause one or both amps to shuttoff. Do they have a seperate ground or are they using the same grround?

 

you can daisy chain the remote wire just fine (well...to an extent). but with two amps it should be fine. i have one main remote lead coming from the HU going into my sub amp, and then i just tapped into the wire for my other amp.

 

Agreed on the remote - just 'Y' it off, one to each amp... From there, I'd jiggle as many of the wires as you can - see if you get the amps to shut down or speakers to shut down. If the amps actually go OFF - then you have a power issue - either a remote, ground, or constant wire has a bad contact. If the amps stay ON, but the sound kicks off - then you have either a bad speaker connection (unlikely if *both* rear speakers went off) - or an RCA wire connection problem. Double check your RCA run at both ends and make sure that, where the connections are made Male-to-Female that any exposed metal on the RCA connector ends is taped off - I've seen many instances of the RCA plug itself touching body-ground and AMPS going goofy because of it...

 

Well...It was the grounds. The bolt was really short, so It just popped out after I thought I tightened it last. It would jiggle around when the sub box moved, causing the amps to turn off. I figured out that the grounding area wasn't sanded either. So I sanded it down and tighted the bolt. I guess that's another reason to do things yourself. Thanks for the help.