Sundown SAZ-1000d

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

Ok, I am about as new to systems as an 80 year old with a computer. My friend is big into all this stuff, but we're both stumped as to what my problem is. And now I will tell you what the problem is...

I have 2 sundown e8's and saz-1000d. I was just driving, may have had a little bump, but after that my subs quit hittin. They came back on for a moment and then quit again. I have tried new RCA's, i rewired the subs(i'm only using 16 gauge right now =/ ), and I even tried my SAX-125.2, and nothing has worked. My amp turns on, I believe my REM is still good, cause if I take it out of my amp it shuts off, so I'm lost right now. My amp clicks when it turns on, like it always did, and then it clicks again and then nothing happens. Any suggestions??

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[Bumpin' Goalie 10+ year member]

Check your ground.

 

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

If my ground was messed up, my amp wouldn't turn on, would it?

 

[Cap'n Andy 10+ year member]

Its possible that you're getting a intermittent ground. Is the amp going into protection?

 

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

no. i think i figured it out. jacob from sundown said that the tinsel lead connection to the voice coils on the subs were bad. which could very well be the case. i had a log slam into the back of my cab and that's where my subs were. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif woofercooker is getting some recones and he said that would fix it, so that's what i'm going to do.

 

[MikeyF 10+ year member]

Sell me the 125.2, i'm not too far from ya =]. It could be a ground man, worth checking out before you dish out money for new recones.

 

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

Well i'm running the 125.2 off the same ground right now. I just took the 1000d out for right now, since I have no need for it at the time, since my subs aren't in. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif You really want the 125.2? ha ha. pm me.

 

[95BlackGA 5,000+ posts]

Get a DMM and check the leads on the subs? If they read fine, put some music through the amp, and check the voltage coming out of the speaker outputs.

 

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

Well, since I am so new to this stuff, I don't really know what a dmm is. lol. I've been on here nonstop lately and i've read about them, but I can't tell if it's just a normal meter or something different. And if it is a normal meter, like the one sitting in front of me, how do I check the leads on the subs?

 

[Cap'n Andy 10+ year member]

You are correct, is it just a regular meter. I believe you want to put the meter on Ohms and attach the leads to the positive and negative, if it reads as it is supposed to then its fine. I think E8's were single 4 ohm subs.

 

[tylork92 10+ year member]

right...you could also put the amp and subs back in and try pressing down on the dustcap/cone and see if ti plays...is so your tinsel leads are bad...but if the DMM shows bad coils it could be tinsels or coils....Recone is only way to fix either.

 

[tylork92 10+ year member]

however if you do want to sale the E8s broke i will buy them...PM me.

 

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

I tried pushing on the dust caps when i had them in the box and they played for a second. not very much though. then they cut out again. i'm gonna go check my subs right now.

 

[musicislife57 10+ year member]

ok, so i put the testers into the terminals, + to

+ and so on, and i got nothing. so i'm going to assume it has to be what jacob previously stated, but on a different thread. i finally looked at these and it looks like they're the subs from the presale on diyma back in 08. tinsels glued to the spiders and everything. i musta done something bad. ha ha.

 

[tylork92 10+ year member]

you should put the testers like this: red to positive terminal black to negative and set your DMM to OHMS...should read 4 ohms if there good.