blowing subs on purpose

[thaikim 10+ year member]

hey all, a buddy of mine has some low end subs, he has a circuity city warranty on em and he's trying 2 blow em so he can upgrade. i'm tryin 2 figure out a good way 2 do this without damaging his amp (ie. max gain, bass boost) and not makin it look 2 obvious that we were tryin 2 blow em (ie. wall socket).

my questions are.... how would b a good way 2 accomplish this?? and has ne one dealt with warrantees through circuit city?? do they test the product and what kinds of things will they cover??? thanx

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[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

don't ask/don't tell policy, gotta love them

Wall socket them sumbiznitches...

 

[thaikim 10+ year member]

really??? cuz thats what i wanted 2 do...u jus bring the old ones in and say they're blown, no questions asked??

 

[thaikim 10+ year member]

should i stick em in the socket with the subs free-air or in the box???

 

[VisionxOrb 10+ year member]

how about some low votlage DC //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/satan.gif.9c6a335ed7aeeed3ee273e573f1fcaac.gif , try the car battery until it starts to smell or somthing

 

[Electrodynamic 10+ year member]

I'm not advocating this (blowing subs on purpose) in any way shape or form, but wall sockets are a lot of fun. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

I still havent seen video of this. Didnt someone say they were going to video it?

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

it was somekook, he was gonna fry his and tat2 was gonna fry his tornado with 1500W.

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[happy_mcslappy 10+ year member]

We had a Cerwin Vega VMAX12 a while ago that had the tinsel lead come loose. We fixed it for the customer (the manufacturer would have done the same if we had sent it to them) and it broke yet again. We gave him a new one and soldered an extention lead to the tinsel lead and terminal. We headed to the install bay (away from the rest of the customers) and grabbed an old extention cord with the ends removed on one side. Plugged it in, and that bugger lasted for a minute and 15 seconds. I love doing that. We do it at our competitions all the time. Fun as hell!!!

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

get your hands on some three-phase industrial power...that'll blow those bastards before you have time to think, hehe. Also might have some unwanted side effects though...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

you guys got me going, i think i might blow up a Radio Shack 10" that I've had laying around here in a 1 gallon bucket. it's rated 200W RMS, my PG Tantrum with some heavy bass boost should take care of that //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Radar 10+ year member]

To take the questions out of doing this: find an old cord, set a camera up, wire them *****es up, plug it in, enjoy, and send the pics to me //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Bavarian3 10+ year member]

i did that for a friend once....one of his bazooka subs blew, so he decided he wanted to blow the other one to just take em in and get 2 new ones. I told him to let me do the honors so i strapped my JBL 1200.1 to the poor thing and destroyed it. the thing was smoking all over the place and when i turned down the volume it just sort of sat there rattling. warranty covered it and he ended up getting a good amount of store credit and i told him spend a little extra and he got some Type R's instead.

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

just letting you know. curcuit city will test them so just tell them whatever, just dont tell them the truth, say something like...Look i hooked these up and turned them on and they blew

 

[thaikim 10+ year member]

yea but will they b able 2 tell that they were hooked up 2 a socket??

 

[Alpine CDA-9815 10+ year member]

I blew my subs from CC so many times... I think like 7 times (in a 4-5 months) and everytime they replaced them. The last time I blew them I just acted pissed off, and they gave me my money back, CC is great at taking things back/swapping them out.