1 sub fails to work...

[Mr. Wiggles 10+ year member]

Alright, heres the deal...I realised one of my subs weren't beating at all and I take them out of the box and I find that both of the subs are wired differently..

The working sub is wired just as the guy I bought them from said they should be (THE FIRST 2 IMAGES)

But the one that fails to work is wired differently, with more of a V shape (THE LAST 2 IMAGES).

Both subs were powered by a Profile California 1200 amp. All the fuses are fine and I checked both channels on the working sub and Im sure somethings wrong with the sub.

I was wondering if this way of wiring could have anything to do with the sub not working?

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[jj4475 10+ year member]

hey can u just unhook all the wire and folo this link so u can tell if its the subwoofer or not!

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31984

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

by from what i can see they are both wired to the same impedence

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

The one that isn't working probably has one coil wired out of phse with the other.

 

[Mr. Wiggles 10+ year member]

The one that isn't working probably has one coil wired out of phse with the other.

Is that fixable easily? I try to wire it like the other one and no response from it....

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Did you "try" or did you wire it like the other one? It simply a matter of making sure the right wire goes to the right terminal. Get one of them backwards and the sub does exactly nothing.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

ya double check your wiring

 

[Mr. Wiggles 10+ year member]

Did you "try" or did you wire it like the other one? It simply a matter of making sure the right wire goes to the right terminal. Get one of them backwards and the sub does exactly nothing.

I did wire it like the other one. I guess I failed to mention it did work for a good 2 months before it stopped responding being wired like it is.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

maybe it just **** on you. not everything lasts forever

 

[Mr. Wiggles 10+ year member]

what I meant to ask was if the way it was wired could have rendered it to where it doesn't work. I had HifiBuys in my area make the box and install the subs.

 

[Mr. Wiggles 10+ year member]

Could the subs being wired the way they were perhaps blow a voicecoil? I mean I just got the subs 2 months ago, and the custom box and installation had a hefty pricetag....

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

the way you have them wired to the amp yes. it is possible that your amp is not stable at the impedence you were running it at or it could have been clipping.

 

[Blove1991 10+ year member]

Get a DMM ( Digital Multimeter ) and check your coils

 

[Mr. Wiggles 10+ year member]

Alright so I was looking at them today and I decided to give the broken one a little nudge and I hear something jingling around inside and whenever I press down on the sub I hear a scrubbing sound...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsTpqQ10QA

Is it done for?