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hey audio electronics peeps... is it possible for your amp to fry or burn because of a bad ground connection? i just installed a brand new amp and it was working fine until i mounted it in another location and found a different grounding area. things were going fine until i smelt something burning and when i looked it was my amp smoking. Then i noticed that my ground connection was loose and that it could wiggle inbetween the bolt and frame of the vehicle. Could that be the reason why my amp fried? i checked other connections and everything was fine, and my fuses didnt blow. So can anyone help me and figure out if the bad ground was the cause of it? Right now im pretty sick, only had the amp for 2 days... im gonna try wire it again and use a different ground but im scared that i'll blow up in my face...

 
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Wicked…bad grounding shouldn’t burn an amp, the amp should stop working, most amps have a shut down mechanisms if the amp over heats and such, however in your case I think the amp had a defect and coincidently the ground connection was loose

 
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yea it the ground shouldnt do that, you might have used the wrong gauge wire for the power or hooked it up wrong, or the amp mabee just bad, my advice is take it to a good local stereo shop and have them take a look at it.

 
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it could have had some surges from being connected to not being connected. which might be able to fry it. not sure on that one

 
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did the ground connection on your amp melt down alittle bit?? if that's the case.. you crossed some of your wires somewhere while installing and you messed up something inside of the amp which is causing the positive current to go out through the ground ....that happened on my sony xplod amp and i just took it in and they gave me another one becuase it's under warenty for a year or something.

 
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okay i regrounded it at another location... everything works fine now, no surges nothing... it just hella smells in my car now. A friend who works at a stereo shop said that if the ground wire was loose it could cause surges... he told me to to reground it and turn it up and should work.

 
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Burning your amp...Sucks...

 
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my amp started smoking the other day because I blew a transistor, white smoke came out of my amp for about half a minute, but my amp still works. Maybe that is what happened.

 
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hehe now that's a fried amp

 
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Great way to start a CAR-B-Q!!

 
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Haha yeah. It sucked. Loose grounding...Friends locally belive I had it too high. Luckily there was a Pioneer service place near. They replaced it. =) I love Pioneer.