Almost blew my BTL

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

Ok so last night I was watching sub video's and it made me make a bass test cd.

Well i was listening to it when one of the tracks came on. It started like this

"track 6 subwoofer excursion test, this test checks your subwoofers excursion. In other words to reach rock bottem without botteming out. "

Then it starts hitting different tones dropping incredibly low freq. Well by the time it got just about to the last one I smelt something I did not expect or want to smell. Burning. I quickly turned of cd player and amp. Sub was a bit warm amp was still cool to the touch. Is it possible sucha low frequency could have caused it.

The sub still works fine but I will not listen to that track again. At the end of the track it states. "If your subwoofer has not frozen locked then you can contiune this test.

The amp was set with a dmm, it is a hifonics herc. And I never had that smell on this sub before.

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[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

"to drop bottom without bottoming out"*

you probably just played below the tuning frequency, although i dont see how that could make it smell funny...

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

Yea thats what it said i couldn't remember exactly.

I have pounded this thing on music forever never had this smell before.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

play the song again and wang on it REALLY hard and see if it smells more

 

[btlking 10+ year member]

that song sucks but it does get pretty low

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

I played throw it up and airforces afterwards loud enough to hurt my ears and no smell after both songs

 

[slab 10+ year member]

the smell is the covering on the coil that holds the aluminum to the former. some stink from a sub is ok. in moderation of course.

you did the right thing turning it off when you did. it doesnt take long for a coil to get warm if you are playing a sub under tuning for more than a short time.

 

[Earthman 10+ year member]

Power supply ftw

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

you were probably clipping it, and heating it up real good.

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

I dont understand why it would be clipping? clipping would happening in other songs that have bigger and longer bass hits wouldn't it? I have a scope at my house but this was set with a dmm already.

 

[generalGOTCHA 10+ year member]

BTL FULLY LOADED SUX

Just joking.... Sheesh dont get your panty's in a wad!

I wouldnt want a sub\setup that I couldnt play any tone too and have to worry like that. If you pay that kind of money you should be able to shoot it and have no problems.

 

[profundus-sanus 10+ year member]

the song is probably clipped hard or something

 

[ViolentAudio]

alien bass glue

 

[gladiator_jai 10+ year member]

i played that song bout a couple of years ago on a pioneer dvc 306 and it rocked..took it to the lowest note...and yeah no smell

 

[TheFiverMan 10+ year member]

the song is probably clipped hard or something

LOL DO WHAT?