Amp cooling?

[Spyware]

Well, I have a 1200W Sony amp in my trunk attached to the back of my rear seat. Today after a nice little drive with some constant double-bass drum rock going I noticed that my bass dropped out, then shortly came back in. It did this twice. My last tiny little amp did this whenever it got too hot so I figure I'm having the same issue. I checked the amp, absolutely too hot to touch. =x Any ideas on cooling the amp? It's kinda in it's own little cubby back there between the seat and my sub box.

[silent_1999]

You could put the seat down, you could by a 12v computer fan from radioshack, be sure to check the ohms of your setup, some amps aren't 1 ohm stable.

[CJW]

I doubt it's from placement. More likely you are running it at too low of a load. AKA if you amp says it's lowest load is 4 ohm and you are feeding it a 2ohm load because of the way your subs are wired it will do that.

[silent_1999]

yep, yep, yep. how are your subs wired? parallel, series? 2ohms or 4ohms? tell us spy.

[Spyware]

I'll have to check, not sure off hand. I wasn't the one who installed the amp honestly. I know the basic setup but a group of us got together and threw it in for speed.

It hasn't given me this problem yet and I've been running it this way for over a month. It's only done this today and it's pretty warm out.

[SimpleAudio]

if it is due to a low load it is just now showing signs of a problem because now all the internal components have been stressed and are now pissed off lol