Bad sub or what? Well its bad now....

[geonfreaq 10+ year member]

First off, everything in my sig is what my system consists of.

Ive had my system installed about a year now. About 6 months after everything was installed my sub began to cut out. It would stop pounding for about a week, then start working again. It did this off and on give or take a few days. Once in a while I would start the truck and it would work, stop some place and when I started it up again it wouldnt be working. At one point it stopped working for about a month then started again... You get the idea.

Well This past friday I was on a road trip and about an hour into it, there was a loud pop and a whole bunch of smoke and a burning smell. I pulled over right away the the protect light was on the sub amp. Everytime it blinked, my lights would dim. My components were still working at this time. I disconnected the power wire from the amp and continued on listening to nothing but my mids and highs.

Well I listened to my highs the rest of the way there (Corova Beach NC) Once I started driving on the sand I muted my radio so I could pay more attention to my surroundings and the people we were driving with. The radio stayed muted for a whole day as I didnt use the truck because I got nasty sick and didnt leave the house.

One the way home, I didnt have highs. No clue whe the hell the problem is there BUT, I thought I had blown my sub amp, nope, it was the sub. I just went out and pulled the sub amp out and took a look inside, nothing burnt. Went and tried to push the sub in and shes locked up.

Also, tried to start my truck just now, and I have no power what so ever. Not even enough for lights to come on.

I had my gains set correctly, so the only thing I can think of is either one of the VC's took a crap or the amp some how screwed the driver up.

I know this is alot but I figured I would cover all my bases trying to explain everything.

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[-01limited- 10+ year member]

A bad sub can also screw the outputs on your amp if you leave it connected and still on IIRC.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

sounds like you have a slight short somewhere. your amp shouldnt be blinking if the sub had just blown which makes me think something in the amp blew which caused your sub to die. what gauge wiring were you using?

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

I tried an amp once that slowly fried my speaker. It's like it was sending some signal, all the time, but it was quite. I found out when the smell starting coming from the VC. It was an old rockford fosgate

 

[geonfreaq 10+ year member]

A bad sub can also screw the outputs on your amp if you leave it connected and still on IIRC.

I dont see anything wrong inside the amp though. Wouldnt I see some kind of burn marks on something inside?

sounds like you have a slight short somewhere. your amp shouldnt be blinking if the sub had just blown which makes me think something in the amp blew which caused your sub to die. what gauge wiring were you using?

0g power and grounds, 12g to the sub.

I tried an amp once that slowly fried my speaker. It's like it was sending some signal, all the time, but it was quite. I found out when the smell starting coming from the VC. It was an old rockford fosgate

See thats what I thought may be going on. Id hate to have to buy a new amp AND sub //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif Just thought I may be able to get away with one or the other.

Here is where I first posted about the problem

http://www.caraudio.com/forums/general-discussion/478806-wtf-going-my-system-help.html

 

[geonfreaq 10+ year member]

Just took a closer look inside the amp and there is something shot in there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Sorry for the crappy phone pics but you can see what happend.

 

[Robert 2001 10+ year member]

That sux

 

[geonfreaq 10+ year member]

Im going to ask this in the amp sectioin but does anyone know if this can be fixed?

I also noticed this....