how did i blow my sub....?

[jerod187]

hey guys i put a deck and stuff in my girlfriends car and figured i throw my amp in because her dad gave a pioneer shallowmount sub 12 inch. in a sealed box and its a Single voice coil 4 ohm sub so my zx1000 was only putting 500 rms into. and i had bass bost off and gain was below half with the frequency at like 100 hertz. and the subs rated at 300 rms and 1200 peak so i figured 500 daily would be fine but now when ever it turns on it makes like a rattling sound and sounds like crap?

what you guys think just overpowered????

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[Tfec 10+ year member]

i had one, cant handle **** for power... garbage imo...

 

[tRidiot 10+ year member]

i had one, cant handle **** for power... garbage imo...

Had one what? He didn't say what sub it was, did he?

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

how big was the box? IIRC, those subs don't need much space.

 

[jerod187]

ya sorry it was the TS-SW3041D. AS for the box it was a bassworkss box think it was prolly around 1.3 Cubic feet or somthing around there

 

[93EXT 10+ year member]

between the sub being what it is, and a underrated amp.... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

the spider or leads could be slapping, pull the sub and give a good visual inspection.

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

and the subs rated at 300 rms and 1200 peak so i figured 500 daily would be fine but now when ever it turns on it makes like a rattling sound and sounds like crap?

what you guys think just overpowered????

yea that could be your problem....

 

[jerod187]

its really hard to c anythinfg without taking it a part cuuz its so compact lol? o and if this helps it was smoking ALOT whne i took it out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[93EXT 10+ year member]

Smoking and electronics is bad, its focked, get something else.

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

its really hard to c anythinfg without taking it a part cuuz its so compact lol? o and if this helps it was smoking ALOT whne i took it out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

hahaha. yeah, that sounds like its blown //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

wow this thread is dumb...

your sub recomends 300 rms, so you figure it can take 500 daily?

what do you think RMS means?

not to mention it's in an over-sized enclosure...

and you think subs are supposed to smoke?

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and just so you know "half gain" doesn't mean anything it depends on the input voltage

my buddy has 3 1000/1's set to 1/8th gain each and he see's 1100 watts from them frequently, he has a line driver but the point is gain level alone doesn't determine output

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

inexperience blew it.

 

[BassBallin]

you blew it

 

[jerod187]

ya i admit i blew it i was just suprised and i didnt buy the sub or anything or the enclosure my gfs dad had it laying around his shop so he gave it to her

 

[Mitch86 5,000+ posts]

Large box = more effecient + underated amp = too much power = death to woofer. That's my hypothesis.

I'm just glad we didnt have to teach another noob that bass boost is the devil.