Originally Posted by Tom.F.1

yup, that was an entertaining read. Speakers aren't made for sine waves, they're made for music.

But my question goes back to the OP. Why bother with replacing coils when kickers are so cheap to buy new?
And why bother buying blown speakers in the first place?

Originally Posted by scampo77

i got these 2 kicker 12s for 40$ plus 2 new coils 15$ each. im not sure what your version of "cheap" is but im under 100$ for the pair even now with another voice coil.

this time the guy is selling me aluminum former polyester impregnated coils and they should be much stronger than the originals.

i buy the used and broken stuff because right now i have about 6-7000WRMS in my car across 4 subs and 12 mid range speakers all for around 5-600$.

Originally Posted by ndinadis

as john above is laughing i'll see if i can explain the issue
The tones is a 40hz sine wave, meaning constant power and no breaks?
If that is right then as jalat said earlier you a smoking the coils with too much heat.
If you were playing for shorter periods I am sure it would take it fine, the way to look at it is music has breaks and variation which gives the woofer time to cool, tones don't. Imaging your revving and engine, you eventually need to let off of your going to overheat it. So it seems your not at the limit of power more the thermal handling over time, if you were to do burps like the spl guys do you could probably throw more at it.

Originally Posted by scampo77

i got these 2 kicker 12s for 40$ plus 2 new coils 15$ each. im not sure what your version of "cheap" is but im under 100$ for the pair even now with another voice coil.

this time the guy is selling me aluminum former polyester impregnated coils and they should be much stronger than the originals.

i buy the used and broken stuff because right now i have about 6-7000WRMS in my car across 4 subs and 12 mid range speakers all for around 5-600$.

Originally Posted by thumpper

Pics of the re-coiling process????