Sound System Wiring, What am I doing wrong? Options

[94CELICAGT_98584]

Ok I have this Kicker 1600 watt amplifier in my car. I originally hooked up the whole thing in my car but it was cutting out when the bass hit because the battery wasent cranking enough amps. So I continued to only hook up 2 of the 4 channels. That worked out...then yesterday I went to Autozone and bought a battery with more cold cranking amps. I then hooked up all the channels of the amp and it worked just fine and the bass was hitting twice as hard. About 5 minutes later I could smell burning and I saw smoke coming out of my box. I dont know If I wired something up wrong or what but I need help fast. In side my box there is 14 guage speaker wire and running into it there from the amp is 10 guage. Could the thin wire inside be burning or what? Here is a picture to help.....PLEASE HELP

[afroman]

do the subs still play, was the smoke coming from the inside of ur box, cuz that sounds like your burning up the subs. what subs cvr 10 12s dual 4s 2s and what amp 800.4 900.4. that would help me at least try to figure it out.
-Aaron-

[creis]

the chances of wire burning is highly unlikly, thats very odd, I would hook it up much diff though, use both coils on the sub! have it so that chenn 1 (+) is connected to the (+) on sub 1 then have the (-) of coil 1 on sub 1 connected to the (+) on the seccond coil of sub 1 then connect the (-) of the seccond coil on sub 1 to the (-) on the amp of the same chennel, do the same to the seccond sub.

whats the max rms of each sub probably pushing too much, 800 RMS is a lot of power, most subs cant take it.

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This post has been edited by creis: Jan 30, 2006 - 12:06 AM

[94CELICAGT_98584]

The subs are 12" CVR and 400 RMS 800 Max and I dont know what the amp is. Its the older one with the dark grey cover....oh and the subs still work


This post has been edited by 94CELICAGT_98584: Jan 30, 2006 - 1:25 AM