My crossover exploded, why?

[freddie1 10+ year member]

i was driving home from school and after about 40 minutes of driving i heard a really loud "knock" from the right side of my car. it sounded like a big rock hit my windshield and then it smelled like a burnt speaker. one of the yellow things inside blew up. why did this happen? i have a set of cdt cl-61a/tw24 comps and i was givin them 260w. is this defective or shorted out somewhere? i set my gains correctly and i did not abuse them.

it's the yellow part that's in the smaller circle:

thanks in advance.

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[ntense702 10+ year member]

wow that's crazy, never heard of such a thing happening, maybe some kind of freak thing like a short or something, or possibly a defective product.

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

You blew a capacitor, but the photo is too bad to tell if anything more is gone.

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

faulty component

too much power

 

[Notwerk 10+ year member]

Not to talk trash, but that's the third or fourth "my CDT crossover exploded!" post I've read over the years.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

*edited* read incorrectly.

Weird.

 

[freddie1 10+ year member]

i thought that it was 130w each side? is that what i ****ed up on?

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Yes you're correct, I read it as if you were giving them 260 to each side.

Sounds like a bad capacitor to me. How old are they? Still have warranty?

Makes me weary to put 150w to each side that I am now ...

 

[freddie1 10+ year member]

oh sorry about that. i just got them like a month and a half ago so they are basically new and still have the warranty. nothing else seems to be damaged and the speakers still work but i'm too afraid to turn it past 5/40 cause i don't wanna mess up anything else...

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Call the place you bought them from and see if you can get a warranty claim.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

i had a crossover explode on me.... just sent it back to quart and got new ones

 

[freddie1 10+ year member]

i had a crossover explode on me.... just sent it back to quart and got new ones

what's quart?

 

[DJ Kontakt 10+ year member]

faulty componenttoo much power

+1 thats the problem

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

what's quart?

MB Quart

 

[Naxis2k1 10+ year member]

not new to me at all. cdt speakers/products have blown up on me countless times. iam done with that company.