Free air testing

[xtully 10+ year member]

Alright, I have an spl custom made 15..2500rms music with 3" 8 layer coils and 2 nomex spiders.. I wanna free air it with my aq1200d but Im not sure at what ohm ( sub is d2)

4 ohms is about 500wrms, my gain is set by m.meter.. would that be ideal? Say 50-75 hz tone?

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[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

if you wanna break it in use 20Hz

 

[xtully 10+ year member]

20hz! for how long and just 500 watts? anyone have a continous tone of 20 hz? I have 30 sec tones

 

[nateberrier 10+ year member]

I was just outside free airing my Z on 25hz with 1500rms to it lol

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Ok well the first question is, WHY do you want to free air it?

If your just checking for mechanical noise any power level will work...

 

[xtully 10+ year member]

No.. Im loosening up my suspension

 

[Phoenix Risen 10+ year member]

just put it on repeat

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

No.. Im loosening up my suspension

*rollseyes*

I was afraid you were going to say something along those lines...Breaking subs in is pointless. I've owned many different brand new subs and I've always wanged em right out of the box. Never blown a sub in my life.

 

[xtully 10+ year member]

fine.. it is to test mechanical noise! lol

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

fine.. it is to test mechanical noise! lol

Then you should only need to free air it for about 5 seconds (you'll notice noise immediately) and I know your only saying that and your still going to attempt to break it in, lol....It's been debated here in the past and I am a firm believer it's unnecessary. Yes the suspension will loosen up over the life of the woofer but putting full power to it before it's loosened is NOT going to cause it to fly apart.

 

[xtully 10+ year member]

especially an splaudio made woofer

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

*rollseyes*
I was afraid you were going to say something along those lines...Breaking subs in is pointless. I've owned many different brand new subs and I've always wanged em right out of the box. Never blown a sub in my life.

im the same way i hate hearing breaking in times.....as soon as i get something just play it as if it was 6 months old

 

[xtully 10+ year member]

ahh whatever.. Im just careful with things I love.. call me crazy

 

[SPLaudio 5,000+ posts]

dont worry about breaking it in, it will break in on its own.

the products i use i personally test to xtreams.

if you break a glue joint send it to me i will fix for free. if you abuse it and damage it i will fix for cost! i want to keep my customers happy and not have any worrys //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

dont worry about breaking it in, it will break in on its own.the products i use i personally test to xtreams.

if you break a glue joint send it to me i will fix for free. if you abuse it and damage it i will fix for cost! i want to keep my customers happy and not have any worrys //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

is it possible to damage your subs? lol