Subwoofer is heating up and smelling horrible.

[{:C:} 10+ year member]

I have a kenwood 12 runnning with the 325watt rms kenwood amp and when i play music loud, it heats up to the point of blowing the sub. I also get static sounds in the rear speakers when this is happening. Any ideas as to what is causing this?

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[MTX520 10+ year member]

over powering it....small wires...um??...rca's??....

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Ur killing it, could be several things

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

gains turned up too high, sounds like

 

[MTX520 10+ year member]

gains turned up too high, sounds like

x2..that too

 

[GabeC 10+ year member]

its prolly overheating

go to the fi website and troubleshoot

 

[Blue Fury 10+ year member]

How about turn the volume down right now. Or off totally. Match, set, check the wires.

 

[{:C:} 10+ year member]

Thanks everybody for fast responses. I've already blown one of the same sub but i thought it was a grounding issue. So I re-grounded and it is doing the same thing. I have some new kicker cvt's so i hope they will handle better.

 

[Blue Fury 10+ year member]

What amp do you power it with? How many subs are running?

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

if your clipping the shit out of your amp your going to keep blowing subs. set the gain correctly and see what happens. read up in the amp section how to set the gain

 

[sml238 10+ year member]

ya ur most likely clipping the **** outa ur amp. ur amp usually needs to have an rms rating higher or atleast = to the subs rms rating. and if any lower u need to set ur gains properly so u wont clip the amp and distort ur way to a fried coil

 

[{:C:} 10+ year member]

I've been doing some reading and it was true about my gains. I was thinking gain in my guitar mindstade as louder and heavier. I guess it helps to read. I'm searching for a lesson on how to set gain properly.

 

[wishbone 10+ year member]

Funny , no one asked you how many watts RMS can the sub handle ?

 

[reclessantics 10+ year member]

could rca make that big of a difference?

 

[captaincheesey 10+ year member]

its prolly overheating

go to the fi website and troubleshoot

Fi has website?