brickloaf

started smelling some electrical burning while doing my daily bumping, pulled over and popped the trunk and there was smoke blowing out of my port...i go to my amp to start unplugging ****, i look back and i see fire

kinda hard to see in the pics but there was a hole in the bottom of the cone, tore the spider, burned up 1 set of tinsel leads and the fire burned a hole in my surround...






ordered a recone kit from Fi, so Ill basically have a brand new sub in the next few weeks

EmperorJJ1

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crazy was it playing against anything?

NCC-2000

TOASTY!


Shitty deal though.

c4w18

lol

brickloaf

what do you mean by playing against anything? there was nothing else in the trunk...the Fi guys think it was caused because of either shitty quality music, or my eq settings..

EmperorJJ1

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ya very well could have been, i hope u stopped usingying utube downloads... but if i had to guess i woulda thought the surround/cone whatever was hitting something at the bottom

brickloaf

Well I don't get my music from YouTube but random free download websites, but I saw nothing out of the ordinary that would be hitting the cone

05Slowline

iTrader: (2)

i think the led's everywhere is the culprit

c4w18

i'm guessing the suspension locked up and the coil wasn't getting cooled due to the fact that the suspension was stationary....at which point your coil was getting nuked by 2k RMS....

brickloaf

I don't know, the coil it's self looked fine all around but it looked like I took a flame thrower to the tinsel leads off 1 voice coil

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

hmm... on the RE MT's we would buy we would always get quad coil because the first and only thing that seemed to break on them was the tinsil leads. so quad would have less power going thru each lead vs dual. idk if thats why urs failed or not but maybe. on the mt they arent woven into the spider so when they would burn up/break they wouldn't ignite anything

brickloaf

Well I've been playing that sub as hard as I can for 2 years so as far as I'm concerned it was bound to happen at some point.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

whos reconing the sub btw?

brickloaf

I am, the recone kit will be here on monday and I looked up some videos and it looks pretty easy to recone, just some epoxy and soldering is needed

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

if u have questions let me know

c4w18

make sure you shim it right....most overlooked part.

-TurboSS-

Make sure you get everything out and clean it real good.

brickloaf

what do you mean? are you referring to putting something in between then magnet and the coil so it doesnt rub?

yea im going to wipe down the epoxy points with rubbing alch and get a air duster and blow all the debris out of the bottom of the magnet.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

yes... if the btl is as much like the re as they say u want to use a manila folder

brickloaf

so just wrap a manilla folder around the magnet part and slide the coil over it and pull the folder out before i epoxy on the dust cap?

brickloaf

Got the redone installed and all I can say is god damn that is 1 stiff spider...I haven't hooked it up to power yet since the epoxy is still bonding but I'll be sure to post results

brickloaf

welp got everything installed and it seemed to be working fine last night, fired it up this morning and I must have done something wrong, sounds like the coil is hitting the magnet even though I shimmed it with 3 sheets of construction paper. my guess is that it might have shifted a little bit while bonding but at this point im trying to figure out how to remove cured epoxy without damaging anything...if not I guess ill just have to chalk up the $150 loss and spend $175 + price of me shipping a 60lb magnet to them to get it done professionally...

this sucks

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

damn why didnt u use the manilla folder? not sure how u can get the surround off properly but you should be able to get the spider off with a hammer and chisel

brickloaf

welp as it turns out, the "epoxy" i was using was a piece of **** and i literally took the spider and surround off by just using my hands after 48 hours of curing...got some loctite epoxy from lowes and ive been steady bumpin for the past 2 days!

just tryin to figure out how long it takes to fully break in a BTL

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

nice so u took it apart and got it centered this time?