Voice Coil???

[zimmer82 10+ year member]

my friend has one of those 4" thick audiobahns in his f150 powered by an PA amp at ~980rms. Well the other day, he blew a voice coil. My question is....Could he unhook the blown voice coil and just run one of them at 1/2 the rated rms??

Would this work or would it just damage the sub even more?? Should he just go ahead and buy a new sub????

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[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

just buy a new one...

 

[zimmer82 10+ year member]

would this be possible to just run one of the voice coils tho?

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

You wouldn't really want to. Only powering one coil is going to change almost every T/S parameter to values you don't know, which means the required box sizes and such will change and you won't know what the "new" required size is (unless you can get Audiobling to tell you the T/S parameters with only 1 coil being driven). Plus, the one blown coil might be stuck in the gap or scraping, which is not a good situation.

Overall just a better idea to either send in the blown one, or buy a new one.

 

[Warbleed 10+ year member]

It's a totally different driver with one coil. It's also possible that the other coil will follow soon after it. As was already said, you don't know if the coil is scraping or what else might be wrong. Get a new sub or get that one reconed.

 

[300m_on_xxx 10+ year member]

just get the new one wire it up put it in the box and let it go

tell him not to get any more audiobahn subs

 

[Abahnic 10+ year member]

If he bought it from an authorized dealer and hasn't had more than a year he can take it back and audiobahn will replace it, probably with a brand new one.