burned my first sub is it possible it wasnt my fault?
05-26-2011, 07:01 PM
#15
50 Watt CAFz'r
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 365
try tuning the amp properly so the gains are not at 100% ao as not to send clipping signal to the sub... just because ur amp is rated at 424wrms does not mean u can turn the gains all the way up without damage to something
do it right this time and u will same urself tons of money in the end
good luck
Dan
do it right this time and u will same urself tons of money in the end
good luck
Dan
05-28-2011, 01:55 PM
#17
05-29-2011, 04:04 AM
#19
0 Watt CAFz'r
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 2
If you smelled a burnt coil...... there was some way you have been over driving your your bass output a bit too much, How were you over driving it? could be many ways:
1. clipping of the amp would be most obvious.
2. amps stability at 2 ohms is over rated and sent your voice coil into a High Current death.
3. Long term use on hot days, at extreme volume levels in a small sealed box with lots of stuffing; will cook the coil. You will notice an impedance drop on the coil as it heats up, you will loose amplifier output current and the output to the sub will decrease.
Any combination of the above is a fast recipe for coil disaster.
empak
1. clipping of the amp would be most obvious.
2. amps stability at 2 ohms is over rated and sent your voice coil into a High Current death.
3. Long term use on hot days, at extreme volume levels in a small sealed box with lots of stuffing; will cook the coil. You will notice an impedance drop on the coil as it heats up, you will loose amplifier output current and the output to the sub will decrease.
Any combination of the above is a fast recipe for coil disaster.
empak
05-29-2011, 10:32 AM
#20
Yankee
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 3,599
OK so your getting a type R... so why wont this one blow up too? (this is a "what have you learned" post)
was the first sub failing your fault? (could have been a manufacturing defect but the way you are doing this you could not prove it... but it sounds like you killed it so welcome to the club)
was the first sub failing your fault? (could have been a manufacturing defect but the way you are doing this you could not prove it... but it sounds like you killed it so welcome to the club)
