problem with new AA Arsenal Unbelievable!!

[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

Ok guys, this is as honest as it gets.

I get to work yesterday morning around 6am at the Fire Department. I listen to some talk radio and some light jazz on the way. Everything works fine. Get to work, park my truck, start my normal day.

Around 9pm I decide to go out to my truck, set the alarm, and listen to a little radio before calling it a night. Well, no sound from my subwoofer. I make sure my amp has power, it does. Check and make sure my subwoofer is still turned on at the deck, it is. So I turn the volume up a bit louder and my NEW AA ARSENAL is just kinda "STUCK." It is trying to make noise, but it won't, just some horrible drowned out sound.

I am tripped the hell out. I get home this morning and pull out the sub. The only thing running through my mind is that the heat has caused some type of trauma to my sub. I don't see anything visually wrong with the sub. It is as if the subwoofer is glued in a stuck position. I can't believe this. My truck sat all day without playing at all. I honestly cant push on the cone and get the sub to move an inch.

Can someone give me some insight? Did the temperature change in my truck cause something to melt?? Its in a 1.2 sealed box just as recommended by AA.

It feels as if its literally welded in a set position. Without playing!!!!!

I am tripping out here !!!

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[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

anyone?

 

[MrSector9 10+ year member]

call them for warranty. I cannot see heat hurting a sub in anyway...... maybe if it was put together with a glue gun.

 

[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

I just don't see how its stuck.

I have never seen a sub do this. Its brand new with maybe 45 mins playing time.

Has anyone had a sub get stuck and won't budge????

 

[2loud4u 10+ year member]

maby it was what people thought was wrong with my mt.

Maby the mag shiffted and is jaming the coil.

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

talk to Chad, he'll help u 4sure, he made the sub, he should know everything 'bout it...

I just got mine reconed and its comin' //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Good luck!

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

i just bought a brand new arsenal, havent gotten it installed yet but i hope this doesnt happen to mine, good luck man

and how much power are you running to it?

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

I just don't see how its stuck.
I have never seen a sub do this. Its brand new with maybe 45 mins playing time.

Has anyone had a sub get stuck and won't budge????

same thing happened to my MTX8500 although it came stuck lol gotta get it reconed/vc'd

 

[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

This sub probably has 45 mins of playing time. There is no way by the volume of which I listen to my music that its blown. Heck, it wasn't blown when I parked my truck in the morning.

I'm so friggin puzzled. AA isn't answering there phones today. I've tried 100 times since they open at 12pm.

The sub is running 2ohm mono off my Memphis MC1000D so approx 600 watts. I haven't even gotten close to full excursion.

A sub just "lock up" like that????

 

[thai_creeper 10+ year member]

I wouldn't worry about it, sounds like you were careful with it in the 45 min of use, just keep trying to contact them about that warranty

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

12"?

 

[tiger777 10+ year member]

**** now i wanna see this. to bad Im going out of town this weekend or I would get together with you this weekend and take a look. my idq kinda did the same thing except it would move just a little but was hard as hell to move when I pushed on it.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

seriously man? i dont think there is a logical explination.

i think it was a crazy weird occurance, maybe the end of the coil was loose out of the factory and while playing it unwound and got jammed between the former and the tyoke and it blew the coil and froze the suspension.

theres alot of things that could have happened, but im sure its covered under warranty because unless you burped the sucker with tons of power i dont see this happening with 45 mins of playtime then sitting all day.

get ahold of chad. then tell us what he said.

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

If AA doesn't take care of you, you need to let us know because that is not cool on therr part. Also, what legitimate business doesn't friggen answer their phone!!!??!?!

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

If AA doesn't take care of you, you need to let us know because that is not cool on therr part. Also, what legitimate business doesn't friggen answer their phone!!!??!?!

a business where the only employees are the dad and the son

 

[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

Well, I called no less than 50 times today between 12p and 6p and got no answer. I guess they were closed today. Everybody deserves a vacation.

Believe you me, this makes no sense to me. That is why I am so puzzled. I can't wait to ship it back and to hear what they say is wrong with it. When I analyze the sub, it looks spotless and mint. It doesn't smell funny or anything abnormal.

I wonder if the pressure change in the sealed box with the temp change messed something up, like some weird suction. I know I'm thinking outside the box here, but I don't have extensive knowledge of the motors in those AA subs, or really any sub at that.

I have the sealed box completely sealed. Is that correct, or should there be a way for air to escape, like with temperature changes? A very small space I'm talking, like pinhole?

If'n I would have spl burped? What is that btw? This thing has only seem some jazz, a few country songs, and the NOW 21 cd.

I don't understand why it is so stuck. Is it possible for the magnet to be grabbing something and not letting go?

 

[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

A few pics of the non working beast:

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

god d*amn it looks goodddd

wut camera is this?

edit********it freakin looks like u never used itmg:

 

[bigrobrn 10+ year member]

Just a cheap old Canon 3.2 megapixel sureshot A70.

I take most of my pics on the 2nd to largest setting with fine detail.

They can get larger, but its best to use the small picture setting, b/c they take so much less space on a dig camera card.

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

maby it was what people thought was wrong with my mt.Maby the mag shiffted and is jaming the coil.

x2

take an aerial pic with the magnet boot off with the sub sitting on the surround