Ellensburg Amplifier is CLOSED - Vibration Damage at its Best!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Hello all!
Dec. 20th 2024 marked the day I had to make a choice. I chose to take care of my significant other, so I made the decision to close private repair and be closed to the public starting Jan. 1st 2025.
It has been a wonderful adventure with you all, and who knows, maybe I will put out a few videos here and there in the future.
Have learned a lot from your content and hate to see you go. I hope everything goes well for you Todd.
I have to devote my time into taking care of my wife. Dec. 20th 911 call changed business for ever.
@ellensburgamplifier O no. I hate to hear that. Family is more important than any business. I hope she is doing better now and I will be praying for you guys.
Thank you for your service good sir. Really appreciate all the videos and help 🙏🏻
You have to use rubber bushings as vibration insulators. That in itself will eliminate most vibration damage
This is what we need. People post tips and ideas to help prevent this type of damage.
Rubber bushings and what else. Let's build the list
@rmyrie5963 truthfully the little rubber bushings used like spacers solve the problem and allow more air to pass under the amp which keeps everything working at a lower temperature = win/win ; )
@@thewhitefamily5515 I will look into that
Thank you for all your videos! You helped me learn a lot and start my own repair for audio products. I also have a 9-5 doing board repair for oilfield automation, comms, and logic boards.
I wish you the best doing repairs for manufacturers. Hope you and your family have a great new year!
Thank you and I am always pleased to know I have done good for others.
Sheeeeit I mount mine under my truck attached to the dangling spare tire so it never overheats and when I play it hard in the rain it cools down SUPER fast. Yall don't know what your missin
I thought I was just being weird.
Take care Todd!
I see so many mount that amp to the box. Never a good idea!
Only as a last resort in my books. There are steps one can take if they have to mount the amplifiers on enclosures but many just don't consider vibration damage. So few understand electrical components and the stresses they endure.
This sucks you are the last repair person
a properly built enclosure is the strongest thing in your vehicle and will be the only thing in your vehicle that doesnt flex, i have multiple layers of deadener and spray foam everywhere in my explorer and there isnt a single thing that doesnt flex in my truck except my enclosure i set a marble on it and it doesnt not move at all but my doors flap everything under the hood flexes my enclosure is the safest thing to mount my amp to and im a no wall so im not sealed off anywhere
@@michaelstewart426 yeah well just how many do you think will do this? Still not ideal to mount on box as sound travels through solids very well to something as an amp board and may cause it to vibrate to the point of breaking and adding vibration mounts doesnt completely eliminate this neither does mounting it other than box there will always be some but id say most people just want to get that bass and maynot take the time to do as your saying just my 2 cents on it. But hey mount your amp were ever you like its not my amp
Happy new year
Stay well!
Can you recommend top 5 private amplifier repair techs that you would trust with your equipment, thanks for the video if you ever come back to the private sector please make a video! Thankyou.
This I am unable to answer as I do not agree with most all other work I see. Extremely poor soldering skills out there. There is a FB group Amplifier Repair: The good, bad, ugly something like that where you will find a good group of people to ask this.
I hate to hear that. I enjoy your repair videos. Will you resume private repairs after the move?
If not, can you recommend anyone? Thanks
Ruthless the new crescendo? Meaning they filled the void nino left. Same boards?
Oh no, not the same at all.
That's a bummer, I was going to email you about sending you my phoenix gold ti500.4 to have you look it over, it works fine, and replace anything for safety reasons to use since it's 21 years old
Such is life, all the best Todd.
Ellensburg as in Washington State??
Is just regular hot glue ok to use?
What do you suggest we use
Also would you warranty an amp that a user has opened up and glued?
Hot glue has a melting point that is too low. I use E6000 or Gorilla Glue clear grip adhesive. I am not the one who approves or delines warranties so I can't say that a warranty would be honored.
@ellensburgamplifierthanks. those ruthless boards look quite similar to ds18 hooligan and dd audio m series.
Did they only use the screw holes on the corners?
Do you have any recommendations for good value amps that are serviceable?
Looking to drive 4x 2ohm @ 500-1kw each.
I have never seen an amplifier damaged like that from vibration. The steel enclosure was sheared and power transistor legs broken. What is the model number of this amplifier? Thanks
Interesting question!
10k is going to make things vibrate.
@eversoul43 true as the spl goes up vibration goes up but polar opposite from everything else in the vehicles you almost want the amps to float otherwise you are right the vibration will eventually ruin something. I been bassin since I was 16 and I am 46 now and did a build for fosgate in late 90s and did a sweet ct sounds build in my son's jeep about a yr ago. 2 12in meso subs powered by the at 1400.1. Slams pretty good. Nothing like my blazer back in the late 90s w 4 12s JL audio spl at 151. But I would guess the jeep spls about 145 maybe 147. The difference between 145 n 150 is so massive it's the difference of having your wiper blades bounce off the windshield and change flying out of cup holders vs just making the drinks wiggle in the cup holders lol so unless someone is almost at the 150 spl I personally have never had any issues with electronics breaking due to vibration. Now if you don't use vibration insulators when you reach 150+ I'm sure damage could be possible. But we have been using rubber gromets/bushings while mounting amps since the 90s here in Chicagoland area.
@thewhitefamily5515 I'm novice at best. 3 2k RMS 12s on a 7k amp, but at .67 ohm close to 11k. + 45 ah CMAX + 500 farad ultra cap. Did rear seat delete subs firing at ft seats. Amps bolted down in trunk area. I'm only at jiggled cups and slight wind. Amps doing okay, but yeah 150+ can only imagine the damage. Especially over time.
@eversoul43 it takes a lot of tinkering. Try firing the subs towards the rear. In my old daytona it made a huge difference and in the blazer w 4 12s I had 2 firing rear and 2 angled upwards with all 4 ports firing up. Aiming subs to rear is almost always a benefit
@@thewhitefamily5515 wanted to fire up but box wouldn't fit that way. I like a lot of kick drum bass so forward firing is fine even if I could get louder on rolling bass. It's still ridiculous. I don't go to demo shows. Live in a small Texas golf/ retirement community. No doubt rear fire could get me extra numbers, but I just like "rolling hard" to the grocery store and carwash pretty much. 🙂
So are you still repairing for Ruthless I have a 1500.4 I've been needing to send in for a few weeks just haven't had a chance yet due to the holidays and short funds I contacted Ruthless and they had me contact you about it is that what you are referring to when you say OEM repairs it was my fault but Ben said he would provide the parts for the repair I had a door speaker blow and took the amp with it
You will want to contact me through the website
Hey Tod , I’m new to your channel I have a Qsc Gx5 I had bought it from a guy for 350 buck off Facebook marketplace he had promised me everything worked and when I said if I could test it he said he had no electricity and the reason why he’s selling it cause he’s short on cash to pay his bills and i didn’t think much of it and I was ok everything probably works but when I got home and turned on both of the channel were clipped and when I confronted him he blocked me and just ghosted me .Do you know if anything would go wrong and what could cause the it to go out ? Please it would be really helpful if you would give me an idea of what it would be .
If I remember right QSC is 110v equipment. At least the last QSC amp I had in was from a sound stage. Unfortunately, your amplifier will need to be serviced as it may have bad output transistors or a failed protection circuit.
@ Don you know any places where I could send it off to get it serviced?
Amplifier Model - Ruthless Audio 10000.1
well, indeed it is and supported 100%!
What’s your thots on the teampie amplifiers are they built tough ?
well that sucks because i had amps that i wanted to send you .
Eburg