sub turns off?

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

I have the jugg 15. It's in a box and I hooked it up to my amp and it plays until I turn up the volume and loudness.

When the sub was in the original car that it was first installed to, it sounded great.

First thing was I put it in my car and tried testing it with an amp I think doing 400 rms. At that point it didn't even sound.

Next a friend and I proceeded to hooking it to his car with a stronger amp doing around 800rms.

It worked and then once he turned up the bass, the sub stopped.not the amp. The amp was still on

All this within a couple seconds of turning car on.The only to turn it back on was to turn off car and restart.

Now what I want to know is what's going on. My friend thinks it's because the sub needs more power and that's why it didn't even bother turning on in my car.

But Idk the facts

Anyone?

I know it works because the car we originally took it out of was running he said 1800rms. Some ma audio amp

Thanks

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[frogcase2002 10+ year member]

What amps and how are you hooking the subs up. What ohm

 

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

It's a SSL 2 channel 1600.

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Regardless of how big the sub is you should still be able to tell if it's working when hooked up to hardly any power. May not have been the loudest but it will make some noise.

My guess is that the sub is probably cooked. One of the coils is halfway shorted/open and when you apply power it opens up and stops working.

 

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

How could have it gotten cooked?

We took the sub out a car and tested it and it started doing so.

 

[itsblown 10+ year member]

The sub is probably blown. If you hooked it up to a properly working amp and it didnt play then its the sub. I have seen blown subs that play on low volumes and the second you give them power they short out and stop playing

 

[tommydh 10+ year member]

Check the tinsel leads

 

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

What's the tinsel leads?

Btw I checked to voice coils and they seem to be good..both sides read 1.9

Same as another jugg 15 I have.

Or could they both be blown?!?!?!

It also doesn't smell. I pushed it down a bit and no noise.

What would it read on the multimeter if it were blown?

 

[frogcase2002 10+ year member]

How are you wiring the sub. Mite be wiring to 1 ohm and amp cant take it.I have seen amps that didn't turn off but just would play if wired to low. Should be wiring in series

 

[frogcase2002 10+ year member]

What's the tinsel leads?Btw I checked to voice coils and they seem to be good..both sides read 1.9

Same as another jugg 15 I have.

Or could they both be blown?!?!?!

It also doesn't smell. I pushed it down a bit and no noise.

What would it read on the multimeter if it were blown?

They are the wires under the cone that are connected to the terminals you hook your speaker wire to..... doesn't sound like there blown. Sound like there dual 2 ohm

 

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

Yes. They are DVC 2ohm sorry should have mentioned.

But I'm still wondering what's the issue since its not a voice coil.

Something else within the sub that could go bad?

 

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

Shoot ill have to look into that because my friend bought the amp to run 2 12 4ohm

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Have a question, if you bridge 2subs does it give it the same power to both that it would to 1? Or how does bridging work?

 

[frogcase2002 10+ year member]

Shoot ill have to look into that because my friend bought the amp to run 2 12 4ohm.

Have a question, if you bridge 2subs does it give it the same power to both that it would to 1? Or how does bridging work?

How do you have the sub hooked up inside the box. Do you have both negative wires To the negative terminal inside the box and same with the positive wires. Or do you have a positive from one side of the sub connected to the negative on the other side and then the positive and negative that are left hook to the terminals inside the box

 

[BrownVanMan 10+ year member]

My guess is that the amp is going into protect because of improper settings(low voltage) or improper impedence(to low).

 

[Camarillo 10+ year member]

It was one positive to other pos and one negative to other neg and then so each pos and neg to amp.

I was thinking it went into protective mode too..but don't amps only go into protective mode when they overheat?