Gonk,Bestbangforthebuck, I don't know if you caught my message to D-rowe but to make a long story short it looks like my hot amp problem might be the crossover in my deftechs. Chad from deftech pretty much explained it to me. I will know for sure next week when they look at my amp at outlaw. I didn,t know a speaker's crossover would make amps shut down like that.(see my thread with D-rowe for more details.) thanx.