what happened?

[Max4hdmatt 10+ year member]

so today i took one of my 12" type r's out today to test pit the whole in my new box. i unhooked all the wires and the terminal cup. i go to put it back on and i turn it up and my subs are hitting half as hard as what they were. my rearview mirror used to shake so bad i couldnt see anything behind me and now it doesnt shake at all. i wired it all up how i took it off. i just dont know why its like this. im going to pull it out and look at the insides of the sub to see if anything is wrong. i dont think its blown. anyone know the problem???

Thanks Matt

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[DB_DRAG_SPL 10+ year member]

Sort of hard to tell what's wrong w/o being there and looking at it first hand

 

[Max4hdmatt 10+ year member]

yea i figured that just didnt know if anyone ever had this problem before and what happened to them so i know what i can look for.

 

[damonhargroves 10+ year member]

unhook one of the subs and see if it seems louder. if so you have polarity backwards on one of the subs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Max4hdmatt 10+ year member]

what do you mean by polarity? im not to good on wiring. i know about everything else just not good on wiring. sorry for the ignorance.

 

[damonhargroves 10+ year member]

do like i said... unhook one of the subs and see if it seems louder. polarity being backwards means you have the pos. and negs. swapped around the wrong way

 

[Max4hdmatt 10+ year member]

oh ok i gotcha. thanks alot man ill try that.

 

[rumple4skin 10+ year member]

polarity has nothing to do with the wiring, your sub is a big *** magnet man, when you send the electro magnetic pulse thro it backwords it is a bad deal lol.

 

[Max4hdmatt 10+ year member]

what do you mean by a bad deal?

 

[damonhargroves 10+ year member]

polarity has nothing to do with the wiring, your sub is a big *** magnet man, when you send the electro magnetic pulse thro it backwords it is a bad deal lol.

so you are saying that polarity has nothing to do with the way you wire a sub???

 

[rumple4skin 10+ year member]

i mean that you will have the voice coils in this particular standpoint(because this topic can touch onto any electrical component) will try to send the signal backwords hence the no sound output(its not even no sound output once you run each sub individual you will find the one with the polarity wrong will make a really ****ed up sound, hence ****ing up the sound out of the other sub as well unless there in separate inclosure's)

 

[Max4hdmatt 10+ year member]

its one big enclosure with each sub having its own space inside of that enclosure. they both work its just not as hard hitting or as loud. and when turned up loud to where i always turn it the sub i put back in today makes like a dull bass note. its weird sounding.

 

[rumple4skin 10+ year member]

so you are saying that polarity has nothing to do with the way you wire a sub???

oh hell no polarity is all of it man, i am just saying that polarity isn't JUST about subs at all it has to do with the hole operation of what you are doing( messing with a car stereo) any component you **** around with can potently be hooked up wrong and you can mess with polarity in lots of different ways ( on your sub being one of the best things to **** up polarity because it can handle tons of watts)

 

[rumple4skin 10+ year member]

ya man it sounds like this is your prob hook up each sub alone and i bet money you find one wired backwords

 

[damonhargroves 10+ year member]

gotcha....