Problems with xcon

[TooLoud4You 0]

So i decided to take another look at the sub and I connected my speaker wire to one set of voice coils....it worked. Hooked it up to the other set of voice coils....it worked. Tried to use both coils in series and then parallel to the other sub and.....it stops but the other one still keeps going fine?

can any1 explain this? I already have been in talks with a recone but now this is just confusing the hell out of me.

[johnecon2001 82]

So i decided to take another look at the sub and I connected my speaker wire to one set of voice coils....it worked. Hooked it up to the other set of voice coils....it worked. Tried to use both coils in series and then parallel to the other sub and.....it stops but the other one still keeps going fine?

can any1 explain this? I already have been in talks with a recone but now this is just confusing the hell out of me.

Maybe try all new wire. Then follow this picture to the minute detail

[TooLoud4You 0]

Im positive it is wired right but I will do runs of all new wire tommorrow.

Is it possible that one of the wires got messed up? that has never happened to me didn't know if it was possible.

[johnecon2001 82]

If the wire runs next to each other, it could have gotten hot enough to melt internally and short against the other lead.

[NDMstang65 403]

If the wire runs next to each other, it could have gotten hot enough to melt internally and short against the other lead.

Physically cannot do that unless the spiders are gone.

[NB50 206]

If the wire runs next to each other, it could have gotten hot enough to melt internally and short against the other lead.

Physically cannot do that unless the spiders are gone.

Believe he was talking about the wires going to the sub.

[johnecon2001 82]

Yep, talking about regular ole OFC speaker wire.

[Infinitelybaffled 0]

Sounds like you wired each coil out of phase.... That is what it seems to me...

[BASSnoob 22]

each coil is reading .8 on the 1ohm speaker.

I heard that if my subwoofer won't work but the coils are reading correctly

the issue is mechanical and a recone will not do anything, is this true?

What caused the damage was the neg and pos wires from the amp to the speaker

were reversed.

You heard wrong. The recone will fix it all.

The damage has nothing to do with you hooking the positive and negative up backwards. It's caused by over excursion as Nick has already explained.

User error.

yep had this happened to me with a pair of audiobahns i had hooked up to my home theater system.. those hellicopter scenes fck up car subwoofers.. lol

[ssh 924]

each coil is reading .8 on the 1ohm speaker.

I heard that if my subwoofer won't work but the coils are reading correctly

the issue is mechanical and a recone will not do anything, is this true?

What caused the damage was the neg and pos wires from the amp to the speaker

were reversed.

You heard wrong. The recone will fix it all.

The damage has nothing to do with you hooking the positive and negative up backwards. It's caused by over excursion as Nick has already explained.

User error.

yep had this happened to me with a pair of audiobahns i had hooked up to my home theater system.. those hellicopter scenes fck up car subwoofers.. lol

a subwoofer is a subwoofer

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

each coil is reading .8 on the 1ohm speaker.

I heard that if my subwoofer won't work but the coils are reading correctly

the issue is mechanical and a recone will not do anything, is this true?

What caused the damage was the neg and pos wires from the amp to the speaker

were reversed.

You heard wrong. The recone will fix it all.

The damage has nothing to do with you hooking the positive and negative up backwards. It's caused by over excursion as Nick has already explained.

User error.

yep had this happened to me with a pair of audiobahns i had hooked up to my home theater system.. those hellicopter scenes fck up car subwoofers.. lol

[BASSnoob 22]

each coil is reading .8 on the 1ohm speaker.

I heard that if my subwoofer won't work but the coils are reading correctly

the issue is mechanical and a recone will not do anything, is this true?

What caused the damage was the neg and pos wires from the amp to the speaker

were reversed.

You heard wrong. The recone will fix it all.

The damage has nothing to do with you hooking the positive and negative up backwards. It's caused by over excursion as Nick has already explained.

User error.

yep had this happened to me with a pair of audiobahns i had hooked up to my home theater system.. those hellicopter scenes fck up car subwoofers.. lol

dont even get me started on that scene..

[ssh 924]

black hawk down <-- must be the true subwoofer cooker

[johnecon2001 82]

Sounds like you wired each coil out of phase.... That is what it seems to me...

Nope, then you'd have equal power going to each sub but the sound waves would be canceling each other out. Thus giving you lots of movement, but not boom boom.

He wired one in series and one in parallel. Sending one more power than the other because of the lower ohm load.

[TooLoud4You 0]

I know for sure the sub was not wired in parallel.

The weird caseright now is how the sub will work if only 1 set of voice coils are hooked up but they cannot be mixed together, both sets work. LIke it is a svc sub. I'm just playing around with it a little now but plan on sending it out soon.

Has anyone had the problem of not being able to use both sets of coils on a subwoofer before? What in the sub caused this problem since it looks fine, reads fine on the coils, plays on each set of coils but not when they are hooked together.

[johnecon2001 82]

Try sending power to one coil and take your DMM to the other coil. Measure the voltage coming off of it.

[Infinitelybaffled 0]

Sounds like you wired each coil out of phase.... That is what it seems to me...

Nope, then you'd have equal power going to each sub but the sound waves would be canceling each other out. Thus giving you lots of movement, but not boom boom.

He wired one in series and one in parallel. Sending one more power than the other because of the lower ohm load.

Ya your diagnosis seems correct but I was saying that the COILS were out of phase. No big deal lol. The x-con is a DVC sub right?

[TooLoud4You 0]

yea they are DVC the speaker works only if hooked up to each voice coil seperately.