Sub Troubleshooting...

[trev913]

I've got a 200W RF Punch amp hooked up to a 12" PPI sub (not really sure on the wattage - though I believe it's around 6-800). Regardless it beats pretty hard, even with the bass on my HU (an Eclipse CD2000) turned all the way down (aka I turn music off/down about 1/2 mile from my house to prevent parents from complaining). Well, the amp has always run kind of warm (not hot - just warm) and I don't usually go on long drives, an hour tops.

Either way, for some reason recently the sub quit beating. At all. I've done everything I know to do. The LED on the amp is still on. I've checked the wiring and everything's tight. I pulled the power wire off for about five minutes and plugged it back up again. I pulled the sub out of the box and it's not blown, and the voice coil is fine. I'm all out of ideas and I REALLY miss having a sub. Any ideas?

 

[KPT]

You probably blew the sub. If a 200 watt amp was pushing a 6-800 RMS watt sub and still "beating" the amp was probably clipping.

How do you know the sub is not blown? You tried it on a different amp?

 

[symon_say]

You probably blew the sub. If a 200 watt amp was pushing a 6-800 RMS watt sub and still "beating" the amp was probably clipping.

How do you know the sub is not blown? You tried it on a different amp?

A 800W sub can not be blown by a 200W amp no matter how clipper the signal is.

Try using the amp on anothe speaker to see if it's sending power, check your rca's i had a problem like that a the rca's from the hu where off and i pull my hair a lot trying to find out what was happenin.

 

[aznboi3644]

how did you verify the coil(s) are ok??