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My fuse holder melted and power cable is hot to the touch...what is going on?

My system was working fine until today. The bass stopped hitting to the music and thumps in intervals of about 5 seconds regardless of whether the music is turned up or down. I hooked up my system without my capacitor to see if this was the problem. It worked...but only for a minute. The bass was hitting like it was suppose to but all of a sudden it went back to the interval thumping and the power cable got hot to the touch and the fuse inside the holder was melted. What the heck is the problem?

Answer:

wow, you need bigger cable, right now. if your cable overheats and melts the casing, you're screwed.
to much electricity going throught the wire u need thicker wire try 0 gauge
short circuit. you need a bigger fuse in the inline cable coming from the battery. bigger fuse
Not the fuse. You're power wire is too small to handle the load. For 800-1100 watts RMS systems use 4 AWG wire. The main fuse should be the sum of the fuse ratings on the amp.

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