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Any way to check if the amp is properly grounded?

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#1 ·
Hi,

Just wondering if there is a way to check via multimeter or any other way to know if the amp is properly grounded?

Thanks for your time,
 
#4 ·
Thansk gijoe and bugsplat for the suggestions,

I finally got some free time over the weekend and did your recommendation. I had some 14 gauge speaker wire that i peal and connected to an UNI-T UT61E AC/DC True RMS Digital Auto Ranging Multimeter, it measure 0.13 ohm, then i tied one of the ends of the wire to the negative of the batery and the other lead to the multimeter probe, the other probe into where the ground was, and the measurement was 0.13 ohm, so 0.13 - 0.13 = 0, so i would guess by this the ground is good, unless the multimeter is not sensible enough to measure the difference between both measurements.
 
#5 ·
Sounds good to me. If it were a bad ground you would have seen something above 0.2ohms. My car had ground issues to the trunk no mater where I grounded. 0.5+ was common in my car. Ending up running a dedicated 4-gauge line from the battery neg to the trunk and put all my gear off the same ground. If you got 0, or close to it, you should be sitting pretty.