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    "Big" has nothing to do with it. You've got 8 speakers and a woofer wire to a 4 channel amp with a dead chnl. By shifting a couple of speakers over to another chnls, you have wired the amp with an impedance thats lower than its designed operating parameter. This can and likely will, cause the amp to cycle off when the volume is turned up. However, this will not cause the head unit to cycle off, unless some of those speakers are wired to the head unit and youve doubled up one of the head unit chnls with two speakers.

    So, I would return the wiring to how it was, confirm the dead chnl or bad spaker(s) and any other faulty equipment. Then replace as needed.

    With 6 in-boats, 2 tower pods and a woofer, You either need two amps or need to shift some of the in-boats to the head unit, if they are not already there. I would suggest a 2 chnl amp for the tower pods and a 5 or 6 chnl for the woofer and 6 in-boats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wylietunes View Post
    "Big" has nothing to do with it. You've got 8 speakers and a woofer wire to a 4 channel amp with a dead chnl. By shifting a couple of speakers over to another chnls, you have wired the amp with an impedance thats lower than its designed operating parameter. This can and likely will, cause the amp to cycle off when the volume is turned up. However, this will not cause the head unit to cycle off, unless some of those speakers are wired to the head unit and youve doubled up one of the head unit chnls with two speakers.

    So, I would return the wiring to how it was, confirm the dead chnl or bad spaker(s) and any other faulty equipment. Then replace as needed.

    With 6 in-boats, 2 tower pods and a woofer, You either need two amps or need to shift some of the in-boats to the head unit, if they are not already there. I would suggest a 2 chnl amp for the tower pods and a 5 or 6 chnl for the woofer and 6 in-boats.
    Thanks Wylietunes!

    I'm no stereo expert, what do you mean by head unit?


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    Head unit - the radio or source unit.
    I don't ever want to discourage someone from giving a project a try...
    Based on your knowledge level - you may be better outsourcing your stereo work. Overloading amps, improperly powering amplifiers, wrong wires, shoddy grounds - they're all a cause for larger problems (sound wise and safety wise).
    Spend the money, learn from a pro and it'll last a long time.

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    Thank you very much

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    Thankssss for that issue

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    I have the same problem

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    Big has everything to do with it when you don't have enough channels to support the amount of speakers silly.. wow...

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    Big is such a technical word for you
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    Seems to be for you, that's for sure...

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    Are you seriously for real? You knock the dust off a 6 month old thread to debate the word "big"? The lack of amp channels was established 11 days prior to your original "big" post. silly If you go back and read, you should be able to realize, that my post using the word "big" was in response to the OP's post, in which he asked if his amp was not big enough.
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