Here's a good one for everybody....

[jemorgan85 10+ year member]

Well as most of you know, I recently finished the system I have been waiting for forever.... if not look in my sig.

But anyway.... I was driving to work today, playing a song at low volume that doesn't have very much bass at all.... and suddenly I hear this horrible "pop" from my trunk. So, I turned the volume down all the way, and about that time, the most godawful sound came out of the subs.... extrememly loud and fart sounding. When I went to check it out... two of them were blown.

Anyone who knows me knows that everything was installed correctly... subs wired correctly, gain set to match input voltage, low bass boost setting.... etc etc

And somehow, these two subs blew. All four of them were on a Planet 1250D.... each getting roughly 200 watts.

David, if you read this, please shed some light on it for me.... I had these playing in my room for awhile off of a 100 watt Cerwin Vega plate amp and never had any problems. I have only had problems in cars.... this woofer setup has been put in two different vehicles, and both times this popping sound has happened. The only thing Jmac and I could come up with is a woofer defect.

Anyone have any ideas.....?

Hope David's little sexy *** gets on here to shed some light on this.

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[wErd 5,000+ posts]

im sorry to hear that. hope RE fixes everything

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

Hope David's little sexy *** gets on here to shed some light on this.

i always knew u thought i was sexy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

dam though that sucks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

and i can tell u it shouldnt have anything to do with overpowering cause each of mine are gettin a good 250 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

sorry to hear that...always sad when good subs end their lives and go to the big infinite baffle in the sky //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Diplexers 10+ year member]

sorry to hear that...always sad when good subs end their lives and go to the big infinite baffle in the sky //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I think I'm going to quote this one^^^

 

[Norcalracer283 10+ year member]

Your subs have my condolenses

 

[jemorgan85 10+ year member]

**UPDATE**

This has been an awful week for audio......I blew my comps this morning. I'm not sure how 22 watts can blow 100 watt rms comps, but **** this week has sucked balls. Wasn't any audibile distortion either. I doubt the woofers and one tweeter reached any thermal limits with 22 watts.... maybe something happened to the crossover? Details later.

Anyway.... I have come up with an answer for the 8 blowings..... I think the + and - may have touched inside the box....the tape came loose on one of the leads. Big ****.

 

[ewalberg 10+ year member]

any chance you have a bad ground, your amps are starving and underpower either as a result of a bad ground or otherwise, and then they send out terribly distorted clipped signal?... there are still ways to ruin a speaker even if it's underpowered...

Or if you live in florida and it's always friggin boiling in your car the speakers are just gonna die faster.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

he doesnt live in florida......but i do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif