Sub's impedance magically dropped. Need help!

[45auto 10+ year member]

can you test the sub on another amp, or a home amp for a little bit? That might tell you if its the sub or the amp.

Amp works fine, the low impedance load caused it to draw too much current, and the fuse blew.

I have my 2 12's hooked up to the amp right now, and it's playing fine.

 

[45auto 10+ year member]

are you getting more power now?

I get no power, amp can't take it... Only 2 ohm's stable, and the speakers are bridged... So it's presenting about a 1 ohm load to my amp, and the amp isn't feeling that at all, blows fuse immediately, but subs are working for that quick second before it blows.

 

[Do_ 10+ year member]

Maybe some of the coil fused? So there was less wire to travel through dropping impedance? Sorta like a half-short circuit.

 

[45auto 10+ year member]

Bumperoo!

I'm hoping something just wen wrong with my wires, so I purchased 15 more ft of wire from my job last night, so I'll just re-wire it all, and pray.

 

[LuNaTiC 10+ year member]

Didn't even think of that.. Every wire has a some sort of resistance. Very very low, But maybe that shat the bed and fucked with the resistance of the wire? I don't know.

 

[45auto 10+ year member]

Haven't even opened the pack of new wire... Might sell it on Ebay now. Don't need it anymore...

I thought of one last thing before I gave up... AND IT WORKED!!!!

I decided to not wire the subs together, yet wire them independently in parallel to get a 2 ohm load for both of them, and it worked!!! Yay! Now it's time to hook it all back up and see how it goes.

Also, in my travels to fix my stuff, the speaker terminals on the sub were kinda horrible, because the tensil leads were asstasticily connected to the terminals, giving me the wrong impedance, and sometimes when they feel bad, no impedance at all, so in my attempt to upgrade them, we made some new tensil leads...

The electrical tape used as the new terminal locks for my new direct tensil to speaker wire method is even more ghetto.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Haven't even opened the pack of new wire... Might sell it on Ebay now. Don't need it anymore...
I thought of one last thing before I gave up... AND IT WORKED!!!!

I decided to not wire the subs together, yet wire them independently in parallel to get a 2 ohm load for both of them, and it worked!!! Yay! Now it's time to hook it all back up and see how it goes.

Also, in my travels to fix my stuff, the speaker terminals on the sub were kinda horrible, because the tensil leads were asstasticily connected to the terminals, giving me the wrong impedance, and sometimes when they feel bad, no impedance at all, so in my attempt to upgrade them, we made some new tensil leads...

The electrical tape used as the new terminal locks for my new direct tensil to speaker wire method is even more ghetto.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer sub

 

[45auto 10+ year member]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer sub

LOL...

I'll upgrade soon, as soon as Best Buy figures it's not cool to dish out less than 8 hours a week to part timers...

 

[DaFreakinRican0 10+ year member]

i just got done *****in at my area supervisor for TOO many hours as a part timer (38) but after reading you get about 8 hours a week, i guess i cant complain at all now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[45auto 10+ year member]

No, I don't get about 8 hours a week, I get about 4.