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I guess it's recone time.. What would cause this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8671126" data-attributes="member: 650438"><p>yes if you tune with a -10, and play a -5 db note in the song, you clipped lets say around 5% ish on the gain knob over your safe level. The reason why the coil didnt smell was from playing lows, the coil is moving a lot and cooling off a good bit before it gets catastrophic failure but it is still exposed to prolonged clipping and the initial built up heat and square waves over time. Sundown rates coils conservatively, you can literally throw a clean 3.5k rms after rise on those subs and there wont be any issues so even with 2k clipped its not going to die that fast depending on the level of clipping but it will wear down the sub.. As for the 1 and 4 ohm yes Just an estimate, 1 ohm you are using 30% of the amp capacity while at 4 ohms you are at 100% redlining the amp but in your case, you are going 150% when you set your gains with the -10 db test tone and play rebassed music usually -5 to -1 db strengths.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8671126, member: 650438"] yes if you tune with a -10, and play a -5 db note in the song, you clipped lets say around 5% ish on the gain knob over your safe level. The reason why the coil didnt smell was from playing lows, the coil is moving a lot and cooling off a good bit before it gets catastrophic failure but it is still exposed to prolonged clipping and the initial built up heat and square waves over time. Sundown rates coils conservatively, you can literally throw a clean 3.5k rms after rise on those subs and there wont be any issues so even with 2k clipped its not going to die that fast depending on the level of clipping but it will wear down the sub.. As for the 1 and 4 ohm yes Just an estimate, 1 ohm you are using 30% of the amp capacity while at 4 ohms you are at 100% redlining the amp but in your case, you are going 150% when you set your gains with the -10 db test tone and play rebassed music usually -5 to -1 db strengths. [/QUOTE]
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