Stereo Amps - Everything Fried?

[msautoso]

Hello

Let some friends use my tritoon (first mistake). They claim they played one song and then the stereo went out.

I have three amps and I am using a power distribution box. The power box is getting power from a wire with a 50 amp fuse - connected to (2) batteries wired parallel with a onboard charger that I plug in at my dock. This is all seperate from my battery that runs the motor and other electronics on the boat.

When I got to the boat all amps appeared to be fried (no power). The 50 amp fuse on the main power line was blown so I replaced the 50 amp fuse on the power supply line and the main amp started to smoke. Everything appears fried even the onboard charger is dead. What is also wierd is that the 20 amp relay on my main battery for the rest of the boat was also tripped. Not sure if my friends tripped that while trying to get the amps back working or not.

Trying to figure out what the heck happened. Maybe they did not unplug the onboard charger before cranking the radio up?? Not sure what happened but trying to sort it out.

Any thoughts??

 

[glenn property of pam]

Re: Stereo Amps - Everything Fried?

test one piece at a time off the boat. you know the main amp is bad as the smoke got out. the charger might be smart enoght to see a short and will refuse to come on. you could have a short between the diffrent systems or something going on down stream and theres to many items to tell whats causing the problem so you need to test each part. its a boat so check everything for water damadge

 

[Silvertip]

Re: Stereo Amps - Everything Fried?

You don't manually trip a "relay". Circuit breakers "trip".