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This is my set up but it is unimportant in this question. http://www.caraudio.com/forums/car-audio-build-logs-cars-trucks-suvs/385439-94-mitsu-eclipse-sx12-2-0-cu.html
I bought my RE SX 12 more than 2 years ago and I ALWAYS play it hard, recently it started quitting. It would play fine for 3 days then stop mid song and not work for a half hour then play fine for another three days. I removed it from the box and looked it over, nothing looked or smelled damaged. I grabbed my ohmmeter and started hunting. One of my coils measured 2.1 ohms, one was O/L. I wiggled the lead wires going from the terminals to the cone and started getting an intermittent reading. So I removed the dust cap and started measuring where the leads are soldered to the coils it measured fine there. Long story short the lead was burned internally where it hooks to the terminal from being stretched at a 90* angle when the sub is moved all the way out. It looks like it was too short from the factory. The other lead on that side looks too long and is wearing a hole in the spider. For now i cut the lead off above where it was burned, pulled it through the terminal and re-soldered it then bent the terminal closer to the cone to try and make sure it didnt run out of wire at full excursion.
My questions are: is this a common problem, how and with what do I replace this wire when it breaks again, how and with what do I glue the dust cap back on, (the center of the RE is like 2" in dia. so now I have a massive air leak).
I bought my RE SX 12 more than 2 years ago and I ALWAYS play it hard, recently it started quitting. It would play fine for 3 days then stop mid song and not work for a half hour then play fine for another three days. I removed it from the box and looked it over, nothing looked or smelled damaged. I grabbed my ohmmeter and started hunting. One of my coils measured 2.1 ohms, one was O/L. I wiggled the lead wires going from the terminals to the cone and started getting an intermittent reading. So I removed the dust cap and started measuring where the leads are soldered to the coils it measured fine there. Long story short the lead was burned internally where it hooks to the terminal from being stretched at a 90* angle when the sub is moved all the way out. It looks like it was too short from the factory. The other lead on that side looks too long and is wearing a hole in the spider. For now i cut the lead off above where it was burned, pulled it through the terminal and re-soldered it then bent the terminal closer to the cone to try and make sure it didnt run out of wire at full excursion.
My questions are: is this a common problem, how and with what do I replace this wire when it breaks again, how and with what do I glue the dust cap back on, (the center of the RE is like 2" in dia. so now I have a massive air leak).
