Trouble with MTX Thunderform enclosure...

Aight...so they worked well for awhile and then all of the sudden I started having problems. I'm not for sure what exactly the problem is though...at first I thought it was the amp was not properly grounded, then I thought the amp was messed up, and now I dont really know what to think.

The amp and everything will turn on and and when I have the volume about a fifth of the way up it can handle it but its not nearly loud enough. So when I turn it up just the slightest bit it will start popping and cracking loud. Sometimes it will crack and pop extremely loud and the entire thing will just shut off...but if I wait a day or so and plug it back up it will turn back on but still pops and cracks.

So can anyone point me in the right direction as to what is wrong with it? I dont really wanna pay someone to look at it for $80/hour....

 

naa i haven't tried that but I'll try it this weekend if possible. But i can't really take the amp out cuz it's the amplified model of it...so its like built into the box...at least I dont think I can take it out.

 

Yea they are actually on the same side....so if i run the RCA's on the opposite side of the truck from the power line you think it'll keep it from distorting?

 

So I tried movin the RCA's away from the powerline and it definatly didn't work....this time they popped and cracked a few loud times and then it just cut off and wouldn't turn back on even after I unhooked it and hooked it back up. I really dont know what to think...i guess the amp is just messed up or something.

 

I didn't mess with the RCA's with the head unit on....aight so I should play around with the RCA connections with music playing and see how that sounds...and push on the subs themselves and listen for a scratchy sound. Aight I'm bout to go try this i'll let you know how it works.

 

Ok I just tried all that, and the subs are not making a scratchy sound at all...this is what I think it is...the amp light is not even coming on...but when i turn my radio on and off the sub pops and while the radio is on the subs kinda buzz real faintly. So i'm wondering if the amp is just messed up

 

Umm yea its a straight set up to the battery, the fuse under the hood and on the amp are ok, they are 20 i guess, they came with it. And the ground is maybe like 2 feet but thats the closest i could get, and i wanna say its 8 gauge...i put in underneath the trim on the passenger side suicide door. Should i get an amp kit from walmart and just try to redo the whole thing?

 

No i dont think i scraped it down to bare metal...so i'll do that...and I dont know what a DMM test is lol. But this set up was working for like 2 weeks before i started havin problems...if that helps with anything.

 

OHHHH KKKKK, so i took apart the box and all that ****...and one of the connections from one part of the amp to another had slid off slightly, so i put it all back together and just put that bitch back in the truck and I am cookin with gas....so hopefully that was the problem.