Tweeters are smoking...yes like a fire smoke!

[banginout 10+ year member]

Does the speaker play music while smoking? My guess would be the amp ch messed up.

NO it has a high pitched noise coming out of the speaker which my guess is why it started to smoke? The other speaker works fine....I was using channel 1 & 2....I have a factory speaker from my old ford truck I am going to try and test maybe that will tell me if the amp or the speaker is messed up?

And also to the others....I am 1000% positive it was on the correct -/+ channel....this is not my first time doing this!

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

Your probably getting straight DC through that CH. Try checking with a DMM. I have an old 4ch that makes that exact sound //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[banginout 10+ year member]

I would pull the speaker out and check the resistance with a dmm //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

What a DMM and how would I go about that?

 

[Rock krusher 10+ year member]

Grimreper

X2

Wiring speakers backwards isn't gonna hurt em one bit, just be out of phase. AC doesn't care which way its going.

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

DMM = Digital multimeter.

 

[banginout 10+ year member]

Also i caught the tweeter just as i started to see smoke....would the speaker have been damaged or is it ok still??

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

give them nicorette or the patch to get them to stop smoking

 

[banginout 10+ year member]

DMM = Digital multimeter.

Ok I have one of those, but I have several settings on it....what should I set it to and what should it read? Also guessing I would put the - in the - channel and the + in the +channel

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

Set it to ACV and see if it reads anything. If you saw smoke chances are the speakers gone.

 

[banginout 10+ year member]

Set it to ACV and see if it reads anything. If you saw smoke chances are the speakers gone.

Thanks for your help grimreper! I'm gonna go test in a little bit!

 

[vellocet 10+ year member]

Yeah, sounds like magic smoke came out of your tweeter. Once magic smoke comes out their a no a good any more. Either a channel on your amp is no good or maybe the coaxil was crud to begin with. I don't know enough about coaxils to tell you any thing there.