Well as some people know i put my new HU in my car a couple weeks ago. Well I ran all my wires( power, RCA's and remote turn-on wire) for a amp and sub. I Have a JL 500/1 which i used in my old car (1986 Honda Prelude) with 3 10' MTX Blue Thunders. Well the Bluethunders wont fit in my trunk cause the box they are in us huge. So i decided i would put in the two 8' Bazooka subs i had sitting in my garage(few years old). Well... me being stupid... I hooked the two bazookas up to the 500/1 and started the car. I Played the stereo to see if I liked they way they sounded in the stang. They sounded nice for the first 5 minutes until i turn up the bass bost on my amp. The reason why this is a problem is because I didn't read the bazookas for their max power limit. Well they each have 150 max which is 300 together. So knowing i had them on a 500/1 was too much....when I turned up the bass bost which blew the woofers. So now i have a little 8' Pre-amped Kenwood Sub in my car until i can get two more Subs and build a box for them.....which wont be for awhile now cause i dont have a job and im currently working on getting an exhaust. So for anyone who has read this........make sure you always know the max power your sub(s) can take!

 

you can blow a speaker with too little power alot easier then you can blow it with too much power. The secret to not blowing a speaker is to keep the signal clean. You could have hooked those speakers up to a 1000/1 and they would have sounded find as long as you kept the singal clean and clipping free.

When a signal starts to clip you are sending the speaker a short burst of direct current signal. This causes the speaker to drive either forward or backward to its limit and then hold it there. This is the same as bouncing off of your rev limiter of your engine and holding it there. You can do it, but I would not do it too many times..........

 

I can promise you wouldn't have had a problem until you turned up the bass boost on the amp. I wish those ***** didn't exist for alot of people. Then again it's a quick way to learn!

 

Yea it was a quick way to learn. Im making sure the bass boost **** is set to off and im putting a piece of tape over it so i dont know its there. Should solve the problem for next time.

 

Just remember its not a bass boost ****, its a distortion inducer.

 

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