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300w at 4ohms and that sub is rated for 400w rmsOf course you could have blew your coil by under powering the sub... what does that Alpine put out at 4ohm???
300w at 4ohms and that sub is rated for 400w rmsOf course you could have blew your coil by under powering the sub... what does that Alpine put out at 4ohm???
Could still happen. Depending on how the gain is set and any EQing or bass boosting.300w at 4ohms and that sub is rated for 400w rms
Yeah, a clipped signal on too little power can easily fry a coil. Clipped means that speaker is pausing at the top and bottom of the stroke while power is still going through the coil... burn a thin wire right up or burn through the coating bonding more than one wire together... dropping the ohm load, frying an amp.Unless it was a distorted signal going to the sub (like setting the gain too high to compensate for lack of power) I haven't seen a sub fry a coil on too little power
Sub woofer is Toast. Look at getting a DVC4 ohm sub 400-800RMS and wire it to 2 ohms on the amplifier.There are quite a few Sales going on that you should be able to find a great deal. May even look at Audio Legion for a cheap fill for now until you want to save for better subs?So I'm actually thinking it's the sub now it's a pioneer ts-1200 4ohm and with the multi meter it's reading 1.6 ohms and my amp is rated to only 2 ohms.
2ohms is way too low for a 4 ohm sub right?
And would my amp be cutting bc the ohms are too low?
LOL.. That might do it man.. Tune a bit on the next sub and save some funds on some really nice heavy hitter sub at a later time. At least get a substage going. Gots have some bassYa had the gain all the way up and sw channel on amp all the way up 10 outta 10
Didn't hear any clipping but it was a 60$ sub from Walmart lol.
Setup came out of a car my sister bought with a alpine type e that was blown
This enclosure.. Tuned to 33Htz. Works just fine for my older XFL 10 also
These subs get down for the money. They will actuallytake a little more than rated. I have a 10 DVC4 that I play around with testing ect in 1.4 at approx 33-34htz. cant actually remember the tuning on the enclosure, but takes an easy 800 rms clean @2ohms and hits pretty good for a 10