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Check fuse in amp, then adjust the gain.
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The amp is overloading for some reason. Try removing one speaker, your impedance might be too low for the amp and it overheats.
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if the speakers are all hooked together ( 3 and 3 ) then the speakers will look like 8 / 3 = about 2.7 ohms per channel. it is doubtful the amp will drive them for long without quitting. The best suggestion I can think of is another 3 pair of speakers, add each speaker in SERIES with one of the existing speakers. Now the ohms are 16 / 3 or about 5.3 per channel. the amp should go for that. Another solution is to trim the speakers with resistors to meke their values higher , but you will be wasting some of the power in the resistors instead of hearing it. Another way is to put one of the 3 speakers on each channel in series with the other 2 in parallel, then the ohms for the 2 in parallel is 8 /2 = 4 plus the one in series is 4 + 8 for 12 in total. the amp should drive this ok too. be aware that the 2 speakers in parallel will not sound as loud as the one in series. ( if you took the sound pressure of the 2 in parallel they would total the same as the one in series, but your ears do not work that way :)) Yet another option is to use 2 speakers in series and put one speaker in parallel with them. the net ohms for that would be between 6 and 7 ohms, and again the 2 would sound different than the one. So there is no easy fix for that one - - its a matter of which option you can live with easiest. be careful when wiring the speakers, observe the polarity of them to avoid cancellation. series connections are like batteries - minus to plus. parallels are plus to plus and minus to minus. AND the one speaker in series with 2 sets the max power - - 80 watts ! Parallel watts add, series is "the smallest watt" rules. Not precisely, but the math gets messy. GOOD LUCK !
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