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Spammers. The Magpuls I have have been fine in all my ARs... I keep batches of them loaded too, so if they were spreading apart I probably would have noticed. I had some cheaper ones, made by PROMAG that you had to literally smash to get them to engage the magazine catch...

I guess I am crazy, but not a prepper. I just bough most of my stuff before I was married 10 years ago, I figured it was best to have what I needed before life went on. It was a good choice. I still buy stuff, not much though... I was buying pull-down mil-surplus powder 80lbs at a time in early 2000, when it was $3 a pound...

All ammo is getting crazy to get... I haven't bought much factory stuff in about 10 years, but now I can't even get many of the components I need for reloading

It absolutely sucks when someone dies. No way around it. But, in time, it goes away and all you think about is the good times...

Looks real nice...

Oh, and clipping doesn't effect a Polyfuse at all, just so that is clear... Only too much continuous power does...

Your crossovers probably contain "Polyfuses" (thermisters). When you overdrive the component set (it is set conservatively) they heat up and become highly resistive thus dropping the tweeter output level. When you let them cool, they go back to normal in a minute or so. The are horrible for sound quality and are used when you have cheap drivers that you know someone is going to abuse. If you want to get rid of them, just bypass them by soldering the two points together that the leads go through. It will sound better, but you will probably blow one of the tweeters eventually. They look like this:

David hand built me a set of subs a while back. No issues.

The real easy part to get is that all you need to do is turn it down a bit... That's it. (and get your SSF set right)...

BTW, your gain settings have nothing to with how much power you can potentially give the sub...

Regardless of how, you are pumping too much into the sub...

Yes, that is too low for your SSF, since the driver is in your trunk you may have not heard the damage you have been doing... Also, you getting the smell into your from the trunk, yikes!

Box is probably OK. Where is your Sub Sonic Filter set at?

I'll throw it around in my head for a bit...

Just turn it down or get a 2nd driver if you need it that loud...

^^ Sort of, due to self dampening, the cone never "rests" and heats up anything quicker with the different signal. I doesn't matter if it is clean or not. It is simply too damn much power for the driver to deal with on a thermal level.

Yeah, don't turn it up as loud as you are...

OP, I don't think you understand what I am saying. That amp can easily produce more than 3Kw depending on output signal. If you smell those things every time you play for 10 minutes you are almost surely over-driving the sub... Heat on the dust cap is OK, but if it is stinking up your entire car in 10 minutes you are pushing the thermal limits of the driver.

None of this matters. You can over-drive the sub easily with the amp you have... You are doing it right now...

Just be careful, if you smell it all the time, you are over-driving the piss out of it...

That and the fact that clipping doesn't hurt anything...

That is good advice, and not too spendy...

Yeah, you have way more power than the driver is rated for... That is kind of a big determining factor. BUT, I am not saying this is the only reason you had a failure, you just need to keep it in mind...

I hear you. Life happens. I have so many projects I want to get done. House, wife, kids and career pretty much eat up all the time...

You doing fine and I think you will be OK with your system. It is good you are paying attention to things like you are.