My friends just installed a brand new Audiobahn AW1571SE 4 Ohm Dual Voice Coil Sub in his car with a 1600W Power Acoustic PS2-1600 Amp wired Mono going to it. He said it sounded extremely good with no distortion for a few minutes then all of a sudden he smelled a weird burning smell and then the voice coil went on it and its 98% distorted with teh voice coil rattling everywhere.

He wired it like this:


------ /-----\
|+ ---------- + +
Amp | SUB
|- ---------- - -
------ \_____/

I thought that maybe the resistance at this kind of wiring may be so low that the amp blew the voicecoil.

I told him i would have wired it like this


------
|+ ---------- + ---- +
Amp | / SUB
|- -------- - / -
------ \__________/


I am not sure if maybe the sub just has a manufacturer defect or what. He cannot return it as it was purchased online.

 

whoah those diagrams didnt work out....

He wired both posotive & negative wires to + and - on one side, then jumped each over in parallel to the + & - on the other side.

I recommended the posotive to go to the + on one side, the negative to the - on the other side, then a jump wire between the left over + and -.

 

Probably tried to put rated RMS power into it and blew it... [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Take anything audiobahn says their subs / amps can take or put out, and cut it in half... best case.

and those diagrams make no sense, need a pic.

Mark

 

yah runnin a 1 ohm load on that amp im surpirsed teh amp didnt blow up hehe. nice to see they can go low.

 

I owned a Power Acoustik some time ago, and aside from the fact that it was used when I got it, I never had any problems with it. it took a beating too!! [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]