I have never been the first to give power to a set of subs and just recently got ahold of a pair of my buddies that i am going to be installing in his car.

I wired them in a box and hooked them up for the first time and upon running them for no more than about 5 min while setting gain i got a hint of the "toasty voice coil" scent from each sub.

I was wondering if running the subs for the first time would generate such a scent, or if subs that are about 2 years old would possibally burn off oxidized portions of the voice coil?

basically looking to see if anyone has an explination.

thanks in advance,

 

Sheesh man, first after reading the topic title I thought you smoked my ex-re sub.

Sorry I have no explanation for your situation.

 

are you running more power then he did ?
are you running a higher oms then he did ?
have the subs sat for sometime ? dust may have sat on the voice coil
BUT I THINK I'M GESSING HERE

 

they have never seen power before me, i am running 800 RMS to a pair of MTX 10" MXS which are 400 a peice

they are single 4 ohm so i am running at 2 ohm

they have been in box, in plastic for about 2 years..

ps. to Dima, no i have not cooked your baby...yet :P

 

so thay are (new but old )the smell will go away (but do not play at full power untill the smell goes away

 

its the over glue in the sub it burns off eventualy but break them in for a week and crank that up and enjoy

 

y logi z2200 cpu speaks still put out a scent like that when i pump em.

 

This freaked me out the first time I turned my sub on, but it went away after a day or so. On the subject of smells, I smell burning rubber when I park my car, but I don't drive hard and the belts aren't burning.

 

was the Parking break on ?

 

^No. I would notice that with my 140 donkeypower engine. I do have winter tires, but regardless of road conditions I get the smell. It's probably one of those things that will go away if I ignore it enough.