Man... just when you think you have everything going... **** happens. So I'm just driving home after my meeting this morning and my bass kicks out. I'm thinking wth? So I get home and check and the overtemp LEDs flashing. So ok... let it cool down for an hour. I hook it back up to try and nothing. Amp turns on ok. Things seem normal, just no output.

I know I can send it to Xtant for $120 to do the flat fee repair... but not sure I want to. This amp's 3-4 years old but it has one benefit, it matches my 4 channel. What to do.... I'm guessing it's a high power FET that went out. There's a slight component "explosion" mark on the PCB.

What would you do? Spend $120 to get it fixed, or say **** it and get 2 new amps. The reason I'm even remotely considering the 2 new amps is because of the size of these amps.

 

It gets really hot in the trunk. My carPC sits in one corner and the on board monitoring reads the ambient temp as 50 degrees C when it's above 95 degrees F outside. I actually have a switched 12 cm fan exhausting out one of the side exhaust "ports" in the trunk. Without it the ambient temp used to rise to above 65 (that's Celcius - yikes!). Needless to say the CPU temp was above 75C and rising - not good...