Are my subs blown?

[MitchZ 10+ year member]

First of all, I know I'm stupid for running my Zx2500 on stock electrical....

But heres the situation; I set my gains low enough to not have major voltage drops until I get a second battery.

But I was driving and bassing when I got to a stop light and my subs started going quieter, I was like "wtf", so I looked at my voltage meter on the dash and it looked like the battery was at about 9 volts. I immediately turned it down and once I started driving again and the battery volt meter went back up to 14 volts. Then I started bassing again and one of the subs wasnt working. I'm pretty sure its blown because it smelled horrible like burning voice coil, and smoke was coming out of the port.

I get home and I pulled both subs out and I wired one sub to 2 ohms, so I would have bass for the time being while I was replacing the other sub. It wasn't nearly as loud as I thought it would be, then I turned it off and went to look at the box and that other sub was smoking.... Wtf!!!

Now whenever I turn it on, neither subs move and the amp light stays Green as in its working fine.

Both subs are 4 Ohm DVC, I had it originally running both subs at 4 ohms.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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[morgans432 10+ year member]

hahah you answered your own question twice in this your subs are toast my friend

 

[MitchZ 10+ year member]

hahah you answered your own question twice in this your subs are toast my friend

How and why?!?!?

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And I have them under warranty at a local car audio shop.

1- Year pioneer warranty, but the problem is - I already returned one of the subs once. Will they both still be under warranty?

 

[skittlesRgood 10+ year member]

you must have over powered the subs. maybe you have the bass boost to high? maybe you have the subs wired wrong?

what subs do you have?

 

[MitchZ 10+ year member]

you must have over powered the subs. maybe you have the bass boost to high? maybe you have the subs wired wrong?
what subs do you have?

I bought the subs back and they replaced both for free, over the counter.

They were 2 Pioneer Premiers, 800 RMS/2500 Peak each.

I told the guy at the shop what happen and he said the voltage dropped too far down and it switched to DC current and it fried both subs.

Now I'm afraid to plug the subs back in. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Ill buy a cap and a second battery before theyre going in my car again though.

 

[jbizzle 5,000+ posts]

don't buy a CAP, buy the second battery and do the big3.