Help!!! Just installed my RL-P, something is very wrong!!!

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I second the "break in" statement on these subs, I remember when I first got mine it was stiff as hell, I put it in a medium ported enclosure putting about 1100 watts to it and sounded decent, but I didn't see all the hype to it, after about a week of bumping it it started to seem slightly louder, it seemed more power hungry so I turned up the gain on my amp a little and it really wangs now, I sh!t you not this thing bumps louder then my mofo 12 did and of course sounds a lot better (SQ) at the same time off less watts

Well, my dad who is not an audiophile listened to my RL-P tonite and said it sounded horrible, and told me i should have kept the Infinity Perfect. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif Right now it sounds ok on some songs, but on alot of songs the bass just sounds way way off, and very very low output. And on high output songs, it sounds like its forcing itself way too much and just rattles everything in my car.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

You have it wired like that?

yeah exactly like that. I soldered a wire to the negative, and one to the positive wire so i now have 4 wires inside my box, and i connected the two positives and the two negatives, seems pretty easy and simple.

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

When they say hook it up and late it play overnight they mean to something inside your house.

 

[stones 10+ year member]

yeah i read that, but how in the hell do i leave the car running all night? That would so drain the battery completely leaving it running without moving the entire night. I also don't need someone stealing my running car if its in the street, and I don't wanna fill my garage with Carbon Monoxide. Also, how long should i give it to "break in" if it doesn't sound right, so i know that there is still another problem?

run the coils in series (4ohms) and hook it up to a channel on you home stereo, at lower volumes it should be able to handle the lower impedance, download a 20hz tone sample and burn it onto disk then play it on repeat for 8 to 12 hours.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

When they say hook it up and late it play overnight they mean to something inside your house.

How do i do that? I don't have a surround system in my house or anything. And if you guys are sure my problems are all break in related (even though i have a very very hard time believing there are no problems at all and its all break in related) than ill just **** it up and wait a week or two untill it breaks in.

 

[stones 10+ year member]

It will probably take longer in a sealed box.

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

How do i do that? I don't have a surround system in my house or anything. And if you guys are sure my problems are all break in related (even though i have a very very hard time believing there are no problems at all and its all break in related) than ill just **** it up and wait a week or two untill it breaks in.

Maybe take it to a friends house that does? I'm not sure if there is any other way to do it, sorry I can't be of more help, but I'm with the other guys and think it just needs a break in period. I also think it would do better in a bigger box, but thats just me.

 

[ntense702 10+ year member]

I suggest you get a ported box, I can't really imagine this sub getting all that loud off a 1 cf sealed box, just my opinion

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

People on another board were telling me that since my Power cable on the Nine.1 is only 8 guage that might be the problem? My power cable on the Nine.2 is 4 guage, and on the Nine.1 it is 8 guage.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I suggest you get a ported box, I can't really imagine this sub getting all that loud off a 1 cf sealed box, just my opinion

IM sure it would sound better in a ported box, but the problem is not that its not getting loud enough for me, the problem is that there is a serious problem (or just not broken in yet) that is causing the sub to get drastically less power than it should be getting in my setup.

 

[ntense702 10+ year member]

seriously if you got a bigger, ported box, it would probably do a whole lot better in output

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

People on another board were telling me that since my Power cable on the Nine.1 is only 8 guage that might be the problem? My power cable on the Nine.2 is 4 guage, and on the Nine.1 it is 8 guage.

I'm runnin 8 guage and it still wangs

 

[stones 10+ year member]

There is the option of "Ghetto porting" CJ did some calculations on what a one inch hole drilled into the side of a box would be tuned to(wood thickness being port length), it turned out it was suprisingly low.

This is kindof a weird thing to do though, perhaps if you did it for awhile to help breakin and then sealed the hole back up afterwards.

There is also the option of putting moisturizing lotion on the spider to make it more pliable.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

seriously if you got a bigger, ported box, it would probably do a whole lot better in output

as i said before, i know it will sound better, but there is actually a problem somewhere right now. Even a sub in a 1 cu ft sealed box getting over 1200 watts rms should hit decently hard.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I'm runnin 8 guage and it still wangs

Im also running 2 amps though (Nine.1 and Nine.2) on a 100% stock electrical system with no cap though.