3 Blown fuses in my Diamond Audio Amp...

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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 07:05 PM
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3 Blown fuses in my Diamond Audio Amp...

I have a Diamond Audio D6 amp in my 05 TL, and everything was fine for almost 2 years. Until yesterday. My audio worked when i parked my car, and when i got back in, no sound. Everything looked like it was working on screen, voulme, name of the tune, etc...
No sound though. So after checking for loose wires, i pulled the 3 30amp fuses out of the amplifier and found that all were blown. This makes me think i have a fried amp or something else that i don't want to have wrong. Can anyone confirm or give me other possibilities that could be wrong? This amp is no longer made, and if i can't get it fixed, it totally changes things with my current install.
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Old Jun 29, 2008 | 07:29 PM
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Check your grounds and your wiring for shorts. Also did you run the system a bit to hard in the last few days or last time? I would try replacing those fuses with the same rated ones and see if the amp still works, but do that only after checking ALL wiring related to the amps/sound for a short or loose ground.
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Old Jun 29, 2008 | 10:29 PM
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I did notice some clipping about a week ago when i was tailgating before a Phillies game. I turned it off right away at that point, but everything seemed fine ever since. The amp was hot at the time though. Before your response, i attempted to plug a 15amp fuse into one of the channels, but it blew right away. The hot and ground going into the amp seem fine, but i haven't had much time to check anything else out.
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Old Jun 29, 2008 | 10:34 PM
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I did notice some clipping about a week ago when i was tailgating before a Phillies game. I turned it off right away at that point, but everything seemed fine ever since. The amp was hot at the time though. Before your response, i attempted to plug a 15amp fuse into one of the channels, but it blew right away. The hot and ground going into the amp seem fine, but i haven't had much time to check anything else out.
I would check all the wires, and as well look into some cooling options, like a fan or something to cool the amps a bit.
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Old Jul 2, 2008 | 02:18 PM
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I pulled the amp and my friend and i opened it up and visually checked it out, but there was no obvious burns on the board. He checked it with an ohm meter and found it to have a short. So i sent it to a repair shop and hope to find nothing major wrong with it. Hopefully I'll know the deal by next week. I Need my tunes back!
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