SI mag tinsels

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

ok so today i was playing my sub and it all the sudden turned off... so im like wtf... i get back to my house to troubleshoot... amp comes on and i dont smell magic smoke... so i take the sub out of the box and i find that both (+) positive tinsel leads only are burnt at almost the exact same spot... the negatives are perfectly fine... so i dont understand what might have happend... i have been running this sub this EXACT same way for a few months now and have had no problems but all of the suddden this happens.. so i guess my real question is what might have caused this so i can avoid doing this again in the future!!??

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[req 5,000+ posts]

pics ftw

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

sorry i meant to put this in the original post my bad....

 

[matrxx dude 5,000+ posts]

i dont know for sure but over excursion maybe,beaten it down for a extended long time.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

i blame the 9.1

 

[bigbirney420 10+ year member]

It could be the amp, I have exact same sub and box. Is it clipping at all? It shouldnt be overpowered, mine sees all of 1100 watts daily, and used to see 1500

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

we were driving mags with close to 5kw on a pair @ 30 hz and they were prestine

 

[95bat 10+ year member]

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That pic looks like the tinsel is sperated.. are they burnt, or did they come completely off?

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

over excursion almost couldnt be it cause why would it only have affected the positive leads and not the negs? im not clipping i set gains using the tutorial. and the leads do look like they could have burnd up. but why would that happen after months of use with the exact same configuration.... im so confused about it i dont know what to think!

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

if u look close at the pic u can see the remainder of the tinsel lead right below the negative tinsel that is complete... both positives broke exactly like that... so i dont know...

 

[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

if the tinsels look burned...chances are that they burned up...

i blame the amp...

maybe you had it clipping without realizing it?

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

that is kinda what i thinkin .... i was playing a new playlist at the time and i bet some song in there clipped the balls off of it...

 

[Famous_78]

i just blew my l7 and i smelled alot of magical smoke

 

[k12ug 10+ year member]

http://i12.tinypic.com/4hdd08w.jpg

same shit man

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

i found out that i can have an audio shop that is close to here replace the tinsels and i get them down to 12 awg haha