mikemihai

Oh one more thing i forgot to add on my last post, If this really was the cause of the amp being build cheaply and the hifonics company was cutting corners, is there any way i can proove they gave me a faulty product and get them to replace it and also pay me for the repairs on my sub? I'll take them to small claims court if i have to By the way the amp is the 2010 model D class amp at 2000 watts, I don't remember the model name, but i can check if anyone wants to know. "" NDMstang65, on 28 May 2010 - 07:31 AM, said: Speakers are stupid, they do what you tell them to do. Regardless, odds are the subsonic filter pot on that amplifier and the screen print on that amplifier is off. They probably cut a deal on their buddy's pots at the factory in china or korea..and used 20% variance pots instead of 2%..""

THANK YOU all for posting reply's so fast, I really do appreciate it, i read them all. I pulled the sub out the box 5 minutes ago, here is the status. STATUS: 1. Spiders are cracked, oh and burned on one side... 2. Voice coil looks good, not burned, BUT it slipped down from its position, i guess it got so hot the glue did not hold it in place so it slipped down about half an inch (i got pictures) 3. The heat was so bad that right above the burned spider, the cone itself burned a little, and the dustcap warped a little at the one edge with the excessive heat. (it does not look bad at all on the top unless u really really really look closely) but underneath the spiders are obviously bad. So far all i need to do is: 1-find out the culprit that lead to this, 2-replace spiders and 3-reglue the voice coil in the correct position. Also assuming the amp settings are correct and the box frequency is correct also, and also i have an optima battery which is really good compared to any stock battery, so i had no clipping issues, plus i wasnt playing loud enough for it to clip, it was all nice and clear when all of a sudden it happened. I read about the 1/0 gauge power cables and i will get those in future, as well as better alternator, but for now im better off without b/c i obviously do not want to give more power to my amp to fry another sub. before i had my optima battery my amp would simply turn off if there was not enough power, and as my standard batt got worse, it would do it more often on lower volume. So im 99% almost sure this had nothing to do with my battery, wires and alternator, the amp was getting all the power it needed at the volume i was playing at when this happened. I guess my biggest concern is now, does the warranty cover this, its such a weird thing this even happened the way it did, i always though my BL was super high quality, so i'd hate to think it was just bad luck(not enough glue on the voice coil that caused all this). also theres a plastic cover on the back of the magnet, that says "Fi Customs Made in USA" something like that, was i supposed to take that off? my was left on, i noticed its covering a little hole in the magnet, so i dunno if that was meant to cool it down... but if it were meant to cool it down, maybe if that plastic cover wasnt on there, this wouldnt have happened. im not an expert so i dunno. Once again thx for all the help i will post box dimensions soon, probably today, and also those pictures, right now i have to go finish sealing the driveway for my dad. (PLease Please PLease let me know if the warranty could apply to me in this case)

Hello everyone, I have a 15'' BL fully loaded daily dual 2 ohm, better wires and better cooling. I followed the recommended specs for the box and tunned it to 31 hz, with the right amount of cubic feet, forgot how many cubic feet but i just remember the box is good, and ported obviously, i dunno how else you could tune the hertz on it if it were not ported... My wiring is good 4awg for the power and ground cable. The amp is good, got it new, works well, hifonics brutus 2000 watt amp, the gains on it are optimized to work great with the headunit, the other settings for frequency i dont rem the technical terms for them but i remember they are set so its between the low 29 and the high 80 hz or 100 hz., following recommandations. I know the amp is too big for my sub so i make sure not to accidentally overpower my sub since its only rated at 1000 watts standard. So i run my amp at half the power it could do. I also only have an 80amp alternator so i doubt i could even get 1500watts out my amp. HERE IS THE PROBLEM: now that you know the specs, my problem is that my 15 inch BL smoked today. after i turn on the car, i let it run at 10% vol for one min till i got out the subdivision, then i give it a bit more volume, i get about 2 blocks away and i let it have about half it can handle and it cuts out, im like what the @$#& is going on and whats that smell, i think to myself "thats weird", this thing can handle deep bass songs at 2 times the volume at least. I turn my car off and back on, i thought i heard some bass but i gave up and turned vol down, got to my friends house 5 min later and looked at the sub, so much smoke, it was so hot i thought the dustcap was going to melt i couldnt touch it, i freaked out, it was like a bad dream. i let it cool, 20 min later go back to my car, turn the music on to about 20% volume put on a deep bass song, and hear nothing. i go and touch it and pushed the cone in a bit then i hear good clear bass come out of it, i let go of it then it goes quiet, i touch it again it plays, W.T.F.??? its not burned but it was smoking earlier, and it burned me when i tried touching it, now its hot and only plays if i push the top in a bit. makes no sense, i had this sub for months and never once i thought it would die on me, and deffinetly not when i was not even pounding it, i was listening to club/house music when it happened, more hight tones than bass. so im so shocked, but for now i think im gonna cry b/c i have no idea what to do and this was so unexpected, the whole reason i bought the fi bl was to never have to worry about anything bad ever happening to my music experience. at 400 bucks this should have never happened, but it did. im also broke, so if anyone knows if FI has warranties on their products or not, please let me know. My question to the community is, what do you think its wrong? Voice coil unglued? Wire came loose?(i still havent even opened the box, this happened a few hrs ago). Am i just unlucky or stupid? I dont know, but please comment. I need some guidance. Thanks in advance for reading all that and hopefully i didnt waste anyones time on here. -Mike-