Reconed RE XXX doesn't work?

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I hooked this thing up today and it flat out doesn't work. If you put your ear up to the sub, you can hear a faint bass tone, but the thing doesn't move and you can't hear it. I triple checked the wiring and the amp is functioning fine, but I have no idea why I would be having these issues with a newly reconed sub. The only thing I can think of is my roommate slipped with a screwdriver when I first tried putting it in a few days ago, and poked through the surround, but it was a small slit and I sealed it up with "amazing goop" and let it cure. I don't think that has anything to do with it.

I noticed that the cone is super stiff and needs a decent amount of force to push down on it, and I can't remember my pre-reconed XXX being like this before, even when I first bought it. Any ideas?

UPDATE - After taking the sub out, I noticed I had the sub wired up wrong, I had the positive terminal going to the negative terminal on the other voice coil, and vice versa. Would that cause the issue that I described? Taking this thing in and out is a huge PITA and I am just curious if the wiring error was a coincidence, and the real issue was the shifting during transit?

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[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

did you check the coils of the sub? mabye your amp is ****ed. you have a diff sub you could hook up?

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

did you check the coils of the sub? mabye your amp is ****ed. you have a diff sub you could hook up?

not sure what looking at the coils would tell me? I don't have another sub, but what can I do to test the sub to make sure it is the sub and not the amp? I mean this thing was taken straight out of the box and installed, not sure what would be wrong with the coils?

 

[bballer123 10+ year member]

Do you have access to a DMM?

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Do you have access to a DMM?

no but I can get one at radio shack. is there anyway to test the sub out though, to see if the sub is actually functioning?

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

THE XXX as i remember only had one spider, shouldnt be hard to move it at all.

flip it over, and look at the magnet vs the metal back plate, see if its equal all the way around...

looks like something shifted.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

After taking the sub out, I noticed I had the sub wired up wrong, I had the positive terminal going to the negative terminal on the other voice coil, and vice versa. Would that cause the issue that I described? Taking this thing in and out is a huge PITA and I am just curious if the wiring error was a coincidence, and the real issue was the shifting during transit?

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

yes it would.

shouldnt make it stiff unless you pushed it while it was playing,

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

Swap the wires and throw it back in. Let us know if it works now. That's probably all it was

 

[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

yes that will do it. It should fix the problem once wired correctly.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

ok it's going back in, will update shortly

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

why must people make threads before they check everything??? wtf

the reason why it was faintly playing because the coils were playing out of phase.

05'ers

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[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

ok it's going back in, will update shortly

good luck.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

there's a slight chance that it might not be magnetized. Happened to me... fuck TC sounds.

 

[bhsdriller 10+ year member]

who reconed it