HELP! What can my 10" L7 handle?

[J.Gotti]

Ive been running my l7 (rated at 600rms 1200MAX) at 500 watts in order to break it in, but I want to step it up a bit. Can it handle 900rms or am I going to **** it up?!

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[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

your not going to hear too much audible difference and kicker subs arent built too tough and are rated pretty accurately on what they can actually handle, so its not worth the risk. Just adjust your gain to run em at 600 rms max.

 

[Side Show 10+ year member]

I wouldn't run more than 600 clean rms to it daily, can handle prob 1000rms for burps (for like 15seconds)

 

[NIHL8ION]

This also will be dependent on your enclosure, but I wouldn't run more than rated to a kicker L7 as stated above; There's no point //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[J.Gotti]

your not going to hear too much audible difference and kicker subs arent built too tough and are rated pretty accurately on what they can actually handle, so its not worth the risk. Just adjust your gain to run em at 600 rms max.

So right now the sub is wired at 4ohms to get 500 watts my amp puts out 900 at 2ohms, so I can just re-wire to 2ohms and adjust the gain? How do I know when its down to 600watts? (New to this)

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

So right now the sub is wired at 4ohms to get 500 watts my amp puts out 900 at 2ohms, so I can just re-wire to 2ohms and adjust the gain? How do I know when its down to 600watts? (New to this)

Let me google that for you =]

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

1000w

 

[J.Gotti]

nice! thanks for the help bud.

 

[dirt101 10+ year member]

I ran ~1000 on my l7 15 for quite a while before the coil let go. Broke the connnection between the tinsel lead and the coil. It never really got too stinky but it did fail over time.