subs blown?

[shaneb 10+ year member]

on my way to my parents my subs stopped working, i got out of the car, checked wiring, amp fuses, protection light was not on, pulled hu out to check wiring, its all good...

still nothing out of the subs, so i go on my merry way, about five minutes later, one of the two subs starts just goin' crazy, its starts motoring in and out relatively fast by no means in sync with the music im listening to....but the second sub is still doing nothing...

got to parents, checked flexibility in the cone, they will compress easily as normal. (had a sub blow in the past, it was frozen) so i don't know what is wrong...

i have a memphis pr300.3 amp and 2 10'' kicker comps, they are rated for 150rms at 4ohms, i believe, with using both outputs on the amp (one to each sub) i am running the amp at 150rms at 4ohms, it is capable of 210rms at 2 ohms but i did not run them in parallel to eachother or series, so they should be running on the 150rms...

anyone have any insight into what would cause this and does the one sub freaking out giv any tell tale sign of whats goin' on?

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[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Ground

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

shorted to ground somewhere? maybe a hu wire got shorted to ground, for my speakers i am running everything from preouts to amp....or would it have to be one of the sub wires or amp is shorting to ground...still no blown fuses or protection light?

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

ps..hows your property in corpus? did you guys get hit hard?

im in dfw and were just gettin some gnarly rain...little wind

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

We didnt get much, luckily. It was headed right for us to. I hope all is well up North of me...

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

heeelllp please...it's definately a wiring issue...or likely anyway...

 

[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

check amp ground

edit:make sure it is clean of anything and its tightened down

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

muchas gracias....as soon as this dang rain stops....