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Reason Why My Amp Went Up In Smoke?


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uh, its a brutus?

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I was going to say that but thought about all the guys with boners for Hifonics...but it really isnt the amp company's fault...complete user error here...

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the fact that the sub never played is a good indivation that it didnt like being ran at .7 ohms...and im not trying to be a dick but this is common sense

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box rise or not.... 1ohm is 1ohm.... or you had something hooked up wrong....

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i was asuming that .3 ohm off would be fine and with box

rise it should have been over 1 ohm but it failed miserably

so time for some thing new and ill keep it wired to 1.6 ohm

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i really doubt you smoked the amp from playing it at .7 ohm especially with box rise. if this happened after you re-installed everything and the sub didnt play at all i'd bet something happened with the wireing. oh, exactly what coils does your ssd have?

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just the copper coils i checked them with a dmm

after my amp smoked out and there both sitting at 2 ohm

and they have never got smelly or warm on 1500 daily

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You guys know that box rise isn't a constant, right? At some frequencies the impedance will be very very close to or equal to the nominal impedance.

Although yes, a 0.7 ohm impedance should generally be fine, maybe you had a couple of strands shorting out the amp's outputs.

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Odd. I haven't owned a ton of amps, 5 or 6 maybe. But I have ran every one of them at half of recommended load. Using them at competitions wide open. Sometimes with less electrical than you have and haven't had a problem. Maybe I have just been lucky. /shrug

I'm not sure 3 tenths of an ohm would have blew it like that with good electrical.

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^^^ so since u ran tons of amps retartedly they should all be able to take it?

I had a 1958 mote carlo and rammed it into a wall and it still ran, think i should do the same with my cobalt?

are you sure u wired the sub correctly? i could be wrong but i just did all the coil configurations for a single sub in both dual and quad 4,2,1 and not one could be wired at 2 and 1(1.4/.7)

so if it was actually at 1.4 before it was either... dual 4 so the only other rewire would be 8, dual 1(.7) able to be .5(.35), quad 2 able to be .5(.35) and 8

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You guys know that box rise isn't a constant, right? At some frequencies the impedance will be very very close to or equal to the nominal impedance.

x2. every little bit the sub moves changes the ohm load the amp is playing at changes. There is no such thing as a consistant .7 ohms, 1 ohms, or any ohms.

hook up a dmm to a sub once, and just tap the cone slightly and see the difference in impedance, same thing is happening with the impedance as it plays.

 

 

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