Quote Originally Posted by jfox8807 View Post
Well each amp and install are different. I don't know any of your set up ,but thermal protect mode would cause a full cut out of audio and with the price of 4 rubber spacers being so cheap. It's well worth a try and will not hurt at all.
Thanks fellas, I really appreciate the help with this. And jfox, thanks for your PM - I'll ping you when I'm back in the country at the end of the week (I'm in London all week). I am generally a pretty handy DIY kinda guy, but the bulk of my DIY work is related to engines and mechanicals on our cars and snowmobiles. My audio capabilities are definitely at the "Pay the Experts To Do It" end of the spectrum, so the fact that my Moomba dealer managed to hack this up so badly is incredibly frustrating to me (not to mention that fact that he's an hour drive away from our lake home, and our lake home is 5 hours away from our actual home ... ).

Let me ask you guys this very basic question: I assume that any thermal-related cut out would normally be accompanied by the light on the amp going red, indicating that it's flipped into safety mode. But the odd thing about my Exile cut-out is not only that it consistently drops within 5 minutes of starting up, but that every time it happens the light stays blue, indicating (at least to my simple mind) that the amp still thinks everything is OK. This was the case all weekend, and I checked periodically to make sure that the Exile light never went red. Is that correct thinking, or would a blue light not necessarily imply that all is well with my Exile 15.4?

And on the speaker wiring, I followed the Exile wiring diagram by checking each speaker wire in each slot to make sure that I mapped each speaker to the right speaker wire input slot (touching the speaker wire to each slot to confirm the location of each speaker). I labeled them to make sure that I knew what was what. Here's a pic of how I rewired it which should be as Exile and you guys suggested:

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So according to my following Exile's suggested wiring, and having now installed the RCA splitters as everyone has suggested, the last major item that's been suggested is the 8 gauge versus 4 gauge wiring for the power and ground to the Exile amp. Is there anything else here that I'm missing? Sorry for the cries for help on this, my ego is taking a beating for not being able to figure this out by myself already!