I've heard not having a load on a tube amp is bad news, but can a car amplifier be damaged if you have it powered up and playing on some channels and no speakers hooked up on other channels?
I ask since my boy installed an infinity 5 channel amplifier in his pickup. He was planning on hooking up his dash speakers to the front channels, but wanted me to hear how the door speakers and sub sounded. Well, the amplifier played for around 5 minutes and went in to protect mode. The amp never would reset (even the next day) so we sent it back to infinity for a replacement. BTW - It was a brand new amplifier.
This led me to wonder if the lack of a speaker load on the front channels caused this failure, or if it was just a coincidence.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I ask since my boy installed an infinity 5 channel amplifier in his pickup. He was planning on hooking up his dash speakers to the front channels, but wanted me to hear how the door speakers and sub sounded. Well, the amplifier played for around 5 minutes and went in to protect mode. The amp never would reset (even the next day) so we sent it back to infinity for a replacement. BTW - It was a brand new amplifier.
This led me to wonder if the lack of a speaker load on the front channels caused this failure, or if it was just a coincidence.
Thanks for your thoughts.