Is my Sub blown?
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Is my Sub blown?
I have this
http://www0.shopping.com/xPF-DUB200-Subwoofer
it was given to me from a guy that bought it and didnt want to use it.
When I hook it up and turn up the volume all there is, is some rasping from the song. It doesnt make anything louder than that.....what is wrong with it?
http://www0.shopping.com/xPF-DUB200-Subwoofer
it was given to me from a guy that bought it and didnt want to use it.
When I hook it up and turn up the volume all there is, is some rasping from the song. It doesnt make anything louder than that.....what is wrong with it?
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Originally Posted by ShaneS_09
I have this
http://www0.shopping.com/xPF-DUB200-Subwoofer
it was given to me from a guy that bought it and didnt want to use it.
When I hook it up and turn up the volume all there is, is some rasping from the song. It doesnt make anything louder than that.....what is wrong with it?
http://www0.shopping.com/xPF-DUB200-Subwoofer
it was given to me from a guy that bought it and didnt want to use it.
When I hook it up and turn up the volume all there is, is some rasping from the song. It doesnt make anything louder than that.....what is wrong with it?
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I hooked it up to the reciever in the living room........I've always done this to check subs/speaker. The reciever has a built in 130 rms amp. in it and it has power both of my Kick comps at the same time so I doubt it would have a problem handling 1 12in sub. I took it out of the box to check its wiring out, and looked at it. Kinda looked like it was jerry rigged, but I don't know cause i have never seen a subwoofer wired outside of the box, I have alwayed just hooked them up when they were in the boxes.
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that doesnt matter, most of the time when you blow a sub it just breaks the little wires inside
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From: Elkhart IN
Originally Posted by fordboy_52
that doesnt matter, most of the time when you blow a sub it just breaks the little wires inside
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The coils are coils of little wires. when you blow a speaker generally you burn the coils which breaks the wires of the coil winding. The little wires that run from the terminal to the coils are called tinsels. You can break them too, but if that happens the speaker does nothing anymore, so we can rule that out. If the coil(s) are burnt out you will be able to feel and hear friction when you push on the cone. It sounds to me that you either have one blown coil and one good one or a coil that is on it's way out. As there are varying degrees of blown. Good advice riggz it is very possible that whoever had this in a car was running a 2 ohm load that a house reciever wont work right for. If this is the case you may damage your reciever's amp or send it into protect mode. A quick Google search will provide you with some exelent diagrams of the different wiring options. I hope everything works out though.
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oh..........wow the receiver DID go into protect mode........it didnt hurt anything though......thank god. It does make a friction nose though when I push down on the speaker.........so does that mean the coil is going out?
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The sub says it runs at 4 ohms.......and my Kickers were 4 ohms. The receiver ran both Kickers at once maxing out the amp. So why would the DUB sub put my reciever in protect mode? I'll rewire it and see if it works though.
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The sub has two 4ohm voice coils. Right now it is wired in parallel which makes the speaker appear as a 2ohm load, which your receiver can't handle. If you change it to be wired in series it will be an 8ohm load, and your reciever should push it fine.