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<blockquote data-quote="Kyle_Keating" data-source="post: 6299479" data-attributes="member: 582385">it was overpowered, you cant underpower a subwoofer - if that was true, then speakers would not work and you could not turn down your volume.- low power clipping is generally not going to hurt a driver unless its a tweeter and the forces are enough to rip or tear a diaphragm. The subwoofer is so large, that any square wave is going to be mechanically smoothed anyway. If the coil smoked (clipped or unclipped), then the glues reached several hundred degrees and the insulation melted , the coil either shorts or separates from itself and the former, and gets stuck in the gap. My point is, if you&#039;re clipping a subwoofer, this does not mean its underpowered, it could be (and often is) still overpowered and it just so happens to be the amp is reaching its limit too.&nbsp; I can assure you, what you did is overpower that driver. I have not found a driver that can take 3000 watts indefinitely - true power tests would show that maximum continuous input for subwoofers is probably 5 to 10 times lower than what manufactures specify. So depending on what you were sending to your driver for seven minutes, you might have easily killed it!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kyle_Keating, post: 6299479, member: 582385"] it was overpowered, you cant underpower a subwoofer - if that was true, then speakers would not work and you could not turn down your volume. - low power clipping is generally not going to hurt a driver unless its a tweeter and the forces are enough to rip or tear a diaphragm. The subwoofer is so large, that any square wave is going to be mechanically smoothed anyway. If the coil smoked (clipped or unclipped), then the glues reached several hundred degrees and the insulation melted , the coil either shorts or separates from itself and the former, and gets stuck in the gap. My point is, if you're clipping a subwoofer, this does not mean its underpowered, it could be (and often is) still overpowered and it just so happens to be the amp is reaching its limit too. I can assure you, what you did is overpower that driver. I have not found a driver that can take 3000 watts indefinitely - true power tests would show that maximum continuous input for subwoofers is probably 5 to 10 times lower than what manufactures specify. So depending on what you were sending to your driver for seven minutes, you might have easily killed it! [/QUOTE]

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