12" L7 smoking

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

I just got a new L7 and put it in a ported box. I hooked it up to my friends Rockford Fosgate 1500BD with the gain cut down really low. We played the sub for a couple minutes and after a while thin white smoke started to come out. I took the sub out and it just smelled a little funny. So I redid the wires and played it again, and it continued to play as normal. The sub did seem kind of quite though, can anyone help me with this?

I can remember back in the day I had my series 1 fosgate 12"s smoking on me too. Remember those grill faced fosgate amps? OOOH the memories...

 

[Polecat 5,000+ posts]

you generally will get some smell on a new sub...but with that power in a ported box, did you have a SSF??

wired backwards...slap your installer........