mayhem

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Picked up a pair of fosagte P-165s 6.5`s from sonix. I have 5x7 infinity`s in the door of my truck and I just wanted a little more midbass. I put them in and they sounded tinny. I turned the volume down on my deck and played with the gain on my amp (eclipse 33230) and the amp shut off. Pulled one speaker out, and dumb a$$ me put the wire on the terminals for the tweets. (has separate terminals for highs with no external crossover). I wired it up correctly this time and when i turned it on it made a huge loud POP, but after that they worked ok. I opened the door to adjust the gain, and as it opened I saw a spark come out from the side of the speaker. Shut it down, checked everything again and gave it another try. This time no pop, but the amp sent some unholy sound to the speakers like I never heard before, I assume it was clipping so I shut it down (gain was at half). Turned the gain down just above low and tried it again. It played ok, but when I tried to turn the gain up it started distorting and the power light on the amp began to flicker.

I yanked out the fosgate`s and stuck in the infinity`s. Tried it again, and seemed to work fine. I didn`t crank it to do a proper test because I was loosing light, but i`m puzzled at WTF is going on?

Plugged the speakers into my boom box and they seemed ok, WTF again?

My system is Pioneer AVIC-5000, Phase Linear .6kw amp running kicker compRT 12, and the eclipse. Phase Linear was unaffected during this experiment.

Stupid installer requests help............................

wasted911

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Sounds like you goober'd the speaker. The amp has better protection circuits than your boombox, that's why it's protecting itself.

Hopefully it didn't create damage to the amp as well.

mayhem

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did a few tests on the speakers. Continuity tests good on all terminals, reads 3.5 ohms on both and did the 9v battery test, also no continuity between the terminals and basket. going to try putting them in again and insulating the basket from the door panel.