my subwoofer starts to smell after extneded period of use

[Cody Is Cool 10+ year member]

i know nothing about tuning. but apparently i need a new sub because it's being overpowered

 

[bgowdy 5,000+ posts]

Kid, get off the fucking bandwagon. Let the man run what he wants to run.

^^^^^this.... not everyone wants or has the money to buy sundown

 

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i know nothing about tuning. but apparently i need a new sub because it's being overpowered

if you dont want to buy a new sub, just simply turn the amp down a little bit

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

i'll turn it down a bit...just one of the settings on the amp itself? but is the only real fix would be ot get a 4ohm sub?

you should be in a 4ohm load with the one sub, so yes, just turn GAIN down to 12 oclock position, or start at 10 oclock position, and should be just fine. make sure the bass boost on the amp is down also,it doesnt have to be at 0 but i wouldnt put it more than 9oclock position also.your amp is 4/2ohms stable mono/bridged, so no issue there with ohms load.if you want to get most out of your amp,you want to get back to a 2ohm load bridged/mono,you can do that with a pair of subs as you had, one single dvc 4 ohm sub,4 dvc 4ohm subs,1 dvc 1ohm sub,2-svc 4ohm subs,several ways to get back to your 2ohm stable amp power to get most out of your amp, and what space you are willing to give up as well

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

i know nothing about tuning. but apparently i need a new sub because it's being overpowered

run what you got,just turn it down...all you have to do, and save to get another sub to get back to where you were,just have to realize that one sub that you have isnt going to be as impressive as a pair,nor handle the same power is all hope all this info has helped you, and saves you from any more damage to what you have left,and un nessary spent funds

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

yea tell me about it... with here thats difficult lol.... i mean it sounds good. pretty nice sq for it to be a ported box and a L7

lol.. i hear ya

 

[bgowdy 5,000+ posts]

OP.... idk if you compete or wanting daily. but you should look into the audioqe sdc2.5 line.

Street Duty SDC2.5-12-D4 Subwoofer $139....

built pretty beefy. my wife had one previously. and was feeding it about 1100rms and it never smelled. not telling you to get it

just throwing it out there

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

i also went on to explain how the box could affect the coil when ported. my guess the box is too small and tuned relatively high causing him to over drive the sub to catch the low notes, even if the box was to big if its tuned to high and the sub is trying to catch the low notes he may be overdriving the sub to catch the low notes. both can be fixed by turning down the gain

So you pretty much have no idea how a subwoofer cools itself is what you're saying.

In reality on lower notes, in any size box, the woofer is moving more and pushing more air past the coil (more cooling). The more strenuous test thermally is generally up around 60hz. In either case, size of the box has little bearing on how much power/heat a coil will hold before starting to burn.

 

[winkychevelle 10+ year member]

So you pretty much have no idea how a subwoofer cools itself is what you're saying.
In reality on lower notes, in any size box, the woofer is moving more and pushing more air past the coil (more cooling). The more strenuous test thermally is generally up around 60hz. In either case, size of the box has little bearing on how much power/heat a coil will hold before starting to burn.

god you are an a$$ today

if he is overdriving the sub in the lower frequency (in other words clipping the amp on song like late night tip what is it like 33hz) then the clipping is going to heat up the coil

if he has a small box let say 1.5 cubes tuned to 45hz like most of the shelf boxes the usable frequency band may only be 32-80hz and he is trying to play lets say "i put on" low note being 27hz, he is going to have very little output on that note which is relatively long. now lets say he turns the radio up a few clicks to try and boost that note he may, 'this being theoretic,' cause the amp to clip the signal

now go smoke a doobie and relax i know where you are coming from but thats not where i was going with my point

 

[GAMEOVERCCA 10+ year member]

Kid, get off the fucking bandwagon. Let the man run what he wants to run.

kid? lol.. k 17 year old...

 

[jmcinvale 10+ year member]

That Kicker CVR is just fine. I ran two in a ported box driven off a 500 watt amp and I could smell them after cranking for awhile, yet they still work good.

Seriously though go get you two JL 12W6 V2 subs and install in a sealed box. Running on the same power it will walk all over the CVR as far as sound quality goes. Run them on a 1,000 watt amp and they will get stupid loud //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif