Eclipse SW7000 problem

[Tagme 10+ year member]

I just bought a set of eclipse SW7000's love them to death, kinda still want to go for the 8000's. Anyway bought them no longer than 3 weeks ago and on my way home today from work I was listening to them thought I heard a rattle. Like something had come loose on my car, I pulled over to check it out. Turns out the glue has COMPLETELY seperate from the edge of the cone and now it just slaps the rubber everytime the bass hits. What could have caused this? I don't really play them louder than there limits and heard no signs of bottoming out. It was really cold out today like 12F could this have done that to my subs? I'm pretty pissed. I just emailed eclipse hopefully they get back to me. Is there anyway of fixing this? would this be covered under warranty? Anyone else have similar problem happen to them?

Thanks in advanced.

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[enzowho 10+ year member]

That sucks man. I would suggest taking it back to the dealer you purchased it through. I have had a terrible time with Eclipse's customer service:crap:

 

[Tagme 10+ year member]

**** it! i bought it through accomodations at my work. so it's straight from eclipse! I hope i get some sort of response from eclipse. looks like i'm in the market for new subs now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif any recommendations in the $300 range. gah!

 

[Tagme 10+ year member]

bump for help?

 

[mike dressure 10+ year member]

That Sucks Bud. Hope Eclipse Responds

 

[Tagme 10+ year member]

is there anything i could have done that might have done this to my subs?

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

is there anything i could have done that might have done this to my subs?

Short of over excursion, (which would have made a LOT of noise when the VC slammed the back of the magnet) no. Sounds like defective glue.

The only problem with going with the SW8000, its only offered in SVC 4 ohm, which if you have two, you would need 1300w @ 2 ohms (which means a pretty big amp). I'm planning to get another SW8200 when I get the cash and run my lanzar @ 2ohms.

 

[Tagme 10+ year member]

ok i'm glad its a manufacturer deffect i'm sending them out on monday hopefully when they look at it they realize that it is indeed there fault and not mine. It took me 3 hours of talking to get something settled. yeah i have a 1000W amp stable at 2 ohms and i'm probably gonna upgrade to a 1500W amp stable at 2 ohms. the thing i'm worried about if i do that will i need to have a thicker gauge wire ran. because if i remember correctly i've got 16 or 12 gauge speaker wire. would that be sufficient to run 1500W mono block that in turn will power the 8000 because to do all that as far as like parts would go would probably run me only like 240 more.

 

[sykojuggalo]

i built a box years ago for my 12" jl w3, and i flat out wore the speaker out, so i bought an eclipse 7124 dvc t4, and i had it maybe a month, and the same thing happened. turns out my box wasnt even close to the right size. i had the right cuft on the exterior //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif

hope yours isnt like that.

 

[Tagme 10+ year member]

here's my new solution. I'm getting 2 10" Alpine Type R SWR1022D but I don't know if I want them in the same box. I have a .75^3 sealed box for each. Is that enough?

 

[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

How is that a solution? You'll get some replacements from Eclipse (hopefully). Then no need to bother with the r's.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

here's my new solution. I'm getting 2 10" Alpine Type R SWR1022D but I don't know if I want them in the same box. I have a .75^3 sealed box for each. Is that enough?

You won't be happy with the SQ of the R's over the eclipses'