Blown Subwoofer

[predxen 10+ year member]

I just picked up a pair of MTX Thunder 8000's wired them up, and listened to them. They appeared to not be getting enough power from my ATX 1600.2 amp. So i though i would bridge one. Me being new to car audio did not know how to bridge an amp. i have since then learned my mistake. when i wired the sub the first time i took 2 speaker wires and hooked them both up to the amp, Then i twisted the positive ends of the two wires together and the negative ones together and put them in the sub. when i turned it on the amp went into protection mode. i knew i had messed up and went inside to look online only to see that i wired them wrong. i hooked up the other sub in the correct way in a bridge and it worked wonderfully. Then i tried the other sub and the amp went into protection mode. So i think i may have blown one of my MTX's, but i am not sure. if i did i was wondering where i could pick up a re-cone kit.

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[goingdef 10+ year member]

bridging an amp means to use one terminal from each side, one+ one- and you will have the same left over. As for the sub I don't know what you did?

 

[predxen 10+ year member]

This is how i wired it wrong, but would this blow a sub ?

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[s10bassjunkie 10+ year member]

You are going into protect because even though there there are 2 + and 2 -, you are only using 1 + and 1 - on the amp. There should be a line saying bridged and pointing to only one set of terminals. You bridge the speaker and then take the 2 sets of wires and put their to one channel on the amp

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

I don't know how I never did that, pull the sub out and test each vc at the terminal.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

You are going into protect because even though there there are 2 + and 2 -, you are only using 1 + and 1 - on the amp. There should be a line saying bridged and pointing to only one set of terminals. You bridge the speaker and then take the 2 sets of wires and put their to one channel on the amp[/quote
he said it doesn't work when hooked up correctly.

 

[predxen 10+ year member]

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Would this blow a Subwoofer ? that would Blow. I

paid an amazing price of $80 on two $180 a piece subs.