what a burning coil sound like?

[thorshammer1 10+ year member]

sla is the source level adjustment. and turning it up made the sub and speakers louder. but if i keep the sla at 0 then my bass drowns out the music.
so i set my gains with the sla up. my gain ended up at the half way mark on my amp where it is marked "nominal" i mean i heard that type-r's can take a beating...and my amp only does 500rms (and the sub is rated at 500rms) so i dont really see how i could ruin it? but could i?

Thats there to make a seemless patch in between radio and cd I believe. Either way if you were sending it a clipped signal you could burn a coil.

 

[BumpinTypeR 10+ year member]

but if it truly was burning voice coils wouldnt the smell be gone after the truck was sitting for 4 hours? and it does smell alot like wood, but with some other odd smell (not much though) mixed in...which may just be the caulk, wood glue (even though both are dry) or just the fact that my sub is new and is breaking in still.

 

[peas247 10+ year member]

but if it truly was burning voice coils wouldnt the smell be gone after the truck was sitting for 4 hours? and it does smell alot like wood, but with some other odd smell (not much though) mixed in...which may just be the caulk, wood glue (even though both are dry) or just the fact that my sub is new and is breaking in still.

ive had my car smell like burn't coils for days

 

[andrew2944r 10+ year member]

ive had my car smell like burn't coils for days

lool, yeah it takes a few days to get that smell out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

isnt 500 rms ac clipped like 2000 watts dc or something? i forget

 

[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

Hook it up to the wall socket. Will give you an idea of how it smells.

 

[BumpinTypeR 10+ year member]

just realized i said "sounds" instead of "smells" haha. i wish there was a way i could tell if i was sending a clipped signal. i mean the only setting i changed after setting the gain is the custom eq. could this change cause clipped signals? and this is at like 40-45 volume out of 46(which is where i set my gain at)

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

run a test tone at the freqency you have bosoted the highest through the sub.. slowly turn up the volume.. when the sub starts to sound "funny" its clipping.

this isnt 100% accurate but works rather well, also i would recommend a -3db test tone, since most music is -3db

 

[jeremy.vaughn 10+ year member]

you would know if the coils were burnin>>> because i blew 2 subs awhile back and you can hardly stand to sit in the vehicle... the wonderful smell lasts for days lol...

 

[andrew2944r 10+ year member]

If you are jamming out and you get a funky kinda glue smell, turn your volume down, lol

 

[BumpinTypeR 10+ year member]

^^alright well thats good to know....its not a bad smell...more like the smell of wood. but im not sure why i am just smellin it now...i mean when i get in my suv i can smell it pretty well, but this may just be becasue i folded my seat down earlier today and the smell drifted throughout the suv lol?

 

[andrew2944r 10+ year member]

lmao, thats coil

What kinda amp do you have?

 

[BumpinTypeR 10+ year member]

wood smell is coil? i have an alpine mrp-m500 amp (500watts at 2ohms) to a 12" type r

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

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haha when i saw the thread i was thinking the same thing

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

haha when i saw the thread i was thinking the same thing

lol i didnt get it at first but now that you said something and thought about it i do