Hey guys, I I have a 10" Solobric L5 in a 2.5 cu ft box ported to 30Hz. Anyways, I'm feeding it off a JBL 1200.1 with the gains set so it's getting enough power to make it slam but not bottom out. Now it's not broken in very much and I was playing some bass mekanic at high volumes but not bottoming out and it started making this funny smell, just wondering what this could be? It's still in perfect working order, the thing just stinks and I'm curious [img]tongue.gif[/img] Thanks...

P.S. I know alot of people are probably thinking that the box is way too big, but after alot of work I found this to be the best all around box to make the single 10 hit down low and loud. You should hear it [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

i think either your frying the coils or just burning off the excess glue on the sub

 

ahhhh...that good ole kicker smell...rob v.o. knows all about that dont yeah rob....hehehe just teas'n [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img] im thinking that smell would be voice coil [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

 

I don't like the sound of that "frying the coils" business I remember Kriston mentioning his 13W7 making this smell when he was testing it out... I'm just curious if I'm hurting it or not. [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

[ November 25, 2003, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Thunderous Contender ]

 

Just because you are not reaching X-mx does not mean you are not overloading the sub...are the L5's not rated at 600 watts/300 rms?
what year L5 is it? (a friend at kicker told me that the older kicker subs, including the L series were rated at rms but those fiures were really peak power ratings!!! my jaw dropped. he confirmed that although, for example the 15L7 stated 1000 wrms power handling it was realy 500 wrms).

point being, given the X-max capability of the L5 and the power required to get it there, you ay indeed be overloading the voice coils.

Marco

 

frying was a bad word to use

 

Since you have a relativly large ported box, I would think you'd bottom the sub before you'd fry a coil... but that might not be the case...
(your tuning is high, and I don't know if bass mechnik is heavy under 30hz or what ??)

There is a chance that your sub is burning off excess glue just like a few posted...

BUT... it would be nice to have a better estimate of how much power you are giving the sub....

For the record... Kicker gives a 'dynamic' or 'musical' rating that considers duty cycle with thermal longevity... The manuals are fairly self explanitory... If it's rated for '300RMS MAX' that's the most Kicker recomends for use with music for relativly long periods of time.....

This rating may or may not be to IEC spec.... they don't tell you...

If I were you, I'd be carefull...

 

Thanks, I will be careful, I always assumed that if the sub isn't bottoming out, popping and keeps putting out clean bass, it's ok. I'll see how much wattage the subs getting, I'm guessing around 800 er so when I really push it to it's limit before bottoming out.

 

Ahhhhhhhh, essance d'kicker.lol , thoses subs make that smell.it's voice coil glue.give the subs a few weeks to break in.they will however continue to make that funky smell.your best bet is to find someone with an o-scope to setup your system to prevent clipping that sub to death.good luck

 

Love that smell... [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

Just means u'r given her a good work out...perfectly normal and nothing to worry about as Kickers are notorious for this, if you were having a problem you'd hear it.