Hi I am planning one running another amplifier for my speakers I am going to be placing it behind the drivers seat, and I was wondering if i have it laying on the cushioning stuff do you think it will cause a fire? thank you

 

an amp will shut down from thermal overload before it gets hot enough to catch on fire...however, i have seen cars catch on fire from horrible hack installations, no fuse on power and get this, a bent nail stuffed into the fuse holder ont he amp, a hard short, and the whole car burned down

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WOW 116 post so far huh, hope some of them were smarter than this 1

 

stfu he needed help.........this is a forum where people learn so they wouldn't do stupid ****.

 

+1 need to stfu and help out! not make them stupid and be scared to ask us anything!

 

I'm still working on the grammar.

 

In your other 3284 posts are you also a ********?

 

Don't think so but, I ask that the nOObs judge me, of course you will have to use the search button to find out, damn ironic huh???

 

wow dick if u dont wanna help then dont! thanks for the help you guys the people who actually are nice. so ill go ahead and try it out. thanks again!

 

do you look like your avatar in real life?

 

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No, I usually don't wear red & yellow striped shirts. Do you look like your avatar??

 

acutally i do

judging from the way you act in the thread, i just really thought your avatar must gave a real good representation of the real you lol

 

Some people have lives OUTSIDE of the interwebz that they tend to, but I see by your 3,300+ posts in less than a year that you are not one of them. Post count is not a determining factor of one's intellectual capacity.

I don't think the OP's question was that stupid at all. He had the wherewithal to realize that amplifiers get hot from spent electrical energy. The heat generated by the electrical componentry in the amplifier is then dissipated into the heat sink (a.k.a. chassis) of the amplifier. That heat would be in direct contact with synthetic materials in the mounted location in question. Synthetic materials all have different combustion temperatures dependent on composition. The OP may not know the exact nature of the material used, so he turned to a group of peers that gather on an internet forum and share a common interest.

A simple 'yes' or 'no' answer, possibly with supporting argumentation, would have sufficed to quell the OP's concerns. If you were incapable of providing the OP with the information he was requesting, you should have moved on.

And for the record, I do not look like my avatar.