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<blockquote data-quote="phoneman" data-source="post: 294214" data-attributes="member: 541477"><p>A tinsle lead is the braided wire that is soldered from the terminal on the speaker (place on the speaker wire hooks up to on speaker basket) to the voice coil.&nbsp; It looks like a little wire dangling on the under side of you cone.&nbsp; If it is a dvc there will be 4 of those and if it is svc there will be 2.&nbsp; Sometimes those start to go bad and loose continuity,&nbsp; Best way to check that is hook each individual vc up to an ohm meter and look for the proper short.&nbsp; Some times when they go bad&nbsp; you can wiggle them around or push in on the cone and they will start working,&nbsp; Of course this is no perm fix by any means.&nbsp; &nbsp; Now you say that the amp is working fine because it show to be on,&nbsp; But are you sure?&nbsp; sometimes the amp will come on and light up like everything is alright but still be bad.&nbsp; So turn your hu way down and hook up a speaker to the amp just to see if it will play.&nbsp; You might want to turn the gains down a bit and all your bas setting off if it is a small speaker.&nbsp; If the test speaker plays then you have either a problem with your sub or a problem with the wireing/conections between the amp and the sub.&nbsp; If the test speaker doesnt play then the problem is either with the amp, the rcas, or the hu preamp signal.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="phoneman, post: 294214, member: 541477"] A tinsle lead is the braided wire that is soldered from the terminal on the speaker (place on the speaker wire hooks up to on speaker basket) to the voice coil. It looks like a little wire dangling on the under side of you cone. If it is a dvc there will be 4 of those and if it is svc there will be 2. Sometimes those start to go bad and loose continuity, Best way to check that is hook each individual vc up to an ohm meter and look for the proper short. Some times when they go bad you can wiggle them around or push in on the cone and they will start working, Of course this is no perm fix by any means. Now you say that the amp is working fine because it show to be on, But are you sure? sometimes the amp will come on and light up like everything is alright but still be bad. So turn your hu way down and hook up a speaker to the amp just to see if it will play. You might want to turn the gains down a bit and all your bas setting off if it is a small speaker. If the test speaker plays then you have either a problem with your sub or a problem with the wireing/conections between the amp and the sub. If the test speaker doesnt play then the problem is either with the amp, the rcas, or the hu preamp signal. [/QUOTE]

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