Hi everyone,
Ok so this is my first project. I have a Rockford Fosgate Bd500.1 car amp that I bought dirt cheap. It does work when I hook it up in my little ford ranger so I decided it would be a good project. Here are the details about it:
1. As I said, when connect in the vehicle @ 12.6V it in comes on with the protection light on and of course no output.
2. When connect to my DC power supply, it turns on without the protection light at 8.4V and .24-27a and outputs the music, but it's distorted badly. When I turn the voltage up it jumps to .48-.70ish amps and then the protection light comes on, music stops. Then it emits a squeal
The squeal is definitely coming from the power area and it looks like it could be one of the inductors. I know mosfets go bad on amps, but after doing the DMM on off testing, they "seemed" ok. (I still want to check them another way. Right now I'm testing them on the board. Any imput on a solid way to test them without taking them out would be great). I have taken some pictures of the amps board so you guys can have a look. I'm also posting a youtube video so that you can see what's going on. Once again thanks for helping the rookie
I hope I'm doing this right but here are the youtube videos. You might turn the volume down, the squeal is rough:
https://youtu.be/JpGJ53NwCPwhttps://youtu.be/EILWGfiFEP8