stuntstere

Yeah the situation is the op has a giant hole in his subwoofer. LOL I don't see anything wrong with my subwoofer. That hole is actually there for extra coil cooling. LOL

Also if I recone one with extra spiders I may as well do the other. One question though. Say I switch to a 2ohm coil to get a final load of .5 on my crescendo 3500 would these be able to survive that? Even with the extra spiders and cutting down on port area?

I'm assuming the lower port area would help per say add resistance to the sub to keep it from over excusion?

Yeah I built it myself with just the help of the torres calculator and some mathematical equations to figure in the extra displacement from the braces and what not.

The one with the red X is the one that let go. Is there anything you guys see wrong with the box besides maybe too big or too much port for the power level?

I would assume there was some kinda clipping. With decaf it should of been tuned no lower than a -5dB tone. O well lol. also the subsonic cut was at 27hz. Too low maybe? I never heard the subs bottom out. Only time was when I forgot to set the subsonic and hit a 23hz note in a song and I instantly turned it down. That was about 5 months ago though.

Well the subs where parallel in the box but series on the out side to get a final load of 1ohm. Also I never payed to much attention to see if one was moving more than the other.

Yeah its a home setup. The last thing I painted was my bike. These are pics before I wet sanded and buffed. BTW this is after I screwed up. LOL I ended up having to sand and reclear because I didn't wait long enough to wet sand so I wrinkled the clear. To the OP I would wait about a week. Try wet sanding with 2000. Clean. Cut and buff in the normal sequence and apply wax at the end. If all else fails the only thing you can do is take it down and reclear maybe taking note what you do different from before and after to maybe isolate the possible issue that caused it.

Yeah thats what I was thinking, plus I was playing decaf which is boosted, so I'm sure there was some clipping involved.

Yeah I don't use anything lower grade than dupont clear. I'll use nason paint or etc, but I always use a quality clear. I also spray out of a Binks MG1 with no less than a 60 gallon comp with a 3 stage decicant dryer, filter, regulator with 2 more disposible inline filters on the bottom of my gun. Can never have enough filtration while spraying. lol

The meter reads OL. There is an open in the coil on one side of the sub. The other coil reads fine at 1ohm. So would loosing a coil cause this to happen?

Also if you wait too long between coats on clear it will mess it up. You want to wait until the coat you laid is tacky to apply the next. If it beyond that I wait until its fully cure, wet sand the clear with 600 and basically start again laying clear.

If looking at that picture it would be the one on the left next to port wall.

thats my second guess behind him not allowing enough of a dry time between base and clear. chemicals could rise through the base into the clear during curing True. I didn't even think about that. Too short of a base cure time will mess up how the clear goes on.

Hmmm. If the clear that you laid is dull and the other side is fine after cutting and buffing, I would suspect something to do with the clear itself. What brand clear did you use? Also, could of been off on the ratio while mixing. Should of gotten a slow activator if you where in a hot climate.