American bass 200.1

I have 4 new model american bass 200.1. Bob send them for to work on 16 volts. I have them on 16 volts powemaster battery.Ican't burp it. I have to roll the volume. when roll the volume it goes into protect. They are @ .5 ohms each. They are not strapped. I have alpine deck with kicker crossover. I try different volume on deck same problem? any suggestions

How many batteries??

TeamSpead-Kenny wrote:

How many batteries??

24 16 volts batt

grounds man are you grounding the batts to the frame if not and using just the grounds off the batts they will do this.

.5 is good for these amps in fact .33 is also untill they rattle loose inside lol.

24 batts are plenty for these as well.i was having issue on 10 batts with my 1 200.1 2 weeks ago and grounding was the issue.

sanman wrote:

grounds man are you grounding the batts to the frame if not and using just the grounds off the batts they will do this.

.5 is good for these amps in fact .33 is also untill they rattle loose inside lol.

24 batts are plenty for these as well.i was having issue on 10 batts with my 1 200.1 2 weeks ago and grounding was the issue.

So you are saying to ground the 16 volt battery to the chassy of the van(which is 12 volt)? I thought the amp is isolated and seeing the 16 volt.

It's fine for a 12/16 volt common ground. Just dont do the positives.

Thanks will try that

yeah this causes issues with some amps where others dont mind it the hk3000 didnt have an issue nor did the ia 20.1 but the 200.1 didnt like it at all

Jeff, you've got TOOOOOOOOOOOO many amps.

lol you have no clue man
no clue

I have the same issue with my amp. The amp ground is direct to my batt. It is isolated from the vehicle.

Hmmm.. What about grounding the amp to the chassis and the neg on the battery. Never have to many grounds. LOL

Moparbass28 wrote:

Hmmm.. What about grounding the amp to the chassis and the neg on the battery. Never have to many grounds. LOL

Never thought I had to do that, since the batt is 16 volts and the vehicle is 12 volts. the amp is on 16 volts.

you know, i never thought a ground cared if it was 12 or 16 volts. a ground is a ground i always thought so some correct me if im wrong so i can fix any mistakes i have made

As stated above, common ground is ok, just the positives are different. I grounded my front and back battery to frame, or body (unibody bah) and ground to amp. Never had an issue, but then again it was 12volts at both ends. Still it shouldn't cause an issue as stated.

like i stated a ground is a ground, if your feeding (for lack of a better term) voltage from your ground then you have a problem

Why does the amp need a body ground? it is isolated from every other electronic components from the vehicle. The amp is already grounded at the battery. I ran the pd2000 as well as other amps that way with no problem. The AB200.1 is the only amp with this problem.

ive always been told to not ground the amp at the batt, or in the same place. i dont know why, never thought to question it, just took the info and applied it. like i also stated b4 if im wrong please correct me so i know it

I have 8 16V to my amps. my question is Why this amp needs body ground while other amps don't.

Some benifit from it, some don't. If your haveing problems with the amp then it may be worth a try. I have always grounded to frame with my amp till I got the last one. I grounded it to frame and battery. It didn't hurt and actually it seemed to help in my application. Thats all I am trying to get at.

only time i have run into the problem was when the headunit had a different ground than the amps did, think it was on the old viper 2500 or dei 2400 whatever same poop.

Navi wrote:

only time i have run into the problem was when the headunit had a different ground than the amps did, think it was on the old viper 2500 or dei 2400 whatever same poop.

I think this is the same thing that is happening with the AB200.1