I have two 1200 watt Panisonic amps, each run one 800 watt 10" kicker comp. when rockin out they get really hot. So hot that you can't touch them. they havent shut off on me yet. i have to turn them off some times cuase im afraid there going to burn my truck down, its that hot.

power comes from batteries to 1f cap, them splits and goes to each amp, grounds are bolted to chassis, all 4 gauge wiring. I put the cap in to see if that would help but it doesn't. There out from under the seats and have air flow.

Any ideas

 

You could try bigger wire, I would probably run 2 if I was in that position. It could also just be that the amps do run that hot. Your running them 2 ohm I'm assuming?

 

 

what 10 kicker sub takes 800 rms?

 

He might be talking about Peak Power and not RMS.

The 10" SoloX will handle 2500 RMS

 

The solo X doesn't count...I knew it wasn't a solo x because no offense, if you've got the change to drop on a solo amp..you'll run it with one big mono block amp....and definitely not 4 gauge wire...I'd be nervous to power one with my ought gauge wire....

 

Do you know if your voice coils are 2 or 4 ohm? If you got it mixed up and took it down to 1 ohm that would explain your amps getting so hot. I hate to make it this complicated but the easiest thing is to go through here and look for the one you have then tell us.
JL Audio

l7s are rated at 600 RMS and you can usually push kickers quite a bit past their rating.

 

there wired in parallel. one sub to one amp, amp is bridged. there the kicker comp vr. looked at them, 600 rms. Unless i turn the amps way down they get hot. Then i don't get very good sound out of them.

Say's 4ohm impedance. From the link you gave me i think i need to wire them in series? That should solve the problem?

 

you can still run one per amp, but your subs have 2 voice coils per sub. It says 4 ohm on the back of the sub?
If it says 4 ohm on the back of the sub, then ideally you should be running it as it says on the first diagram on the right.
Are your amps 2 channel? If they are your doing it right by bridging it, you don't want to run both channels on the amp. If your having to turn them way down and its wired up like the right diagram on the very top, you are running 2 ohms. If you want to give up some power and lower the temperature, you can try doing it like the top left diagram. It will make it 8 ohms resistance, which draws way less power from your amps, but they won't have as much power. You don't want to have them up far enough to clip, but you might get enough even at 8 ohms to run well and they should run a lot cooler.

 

Thanks, i will try and rewire the subs. I'll try the 8 ohm and see what i get, thanks for the help.