Posted July 28, 200916 yr Ok, this is weird. I have an 18" Ascendant audio Sub. It has been working well for months since I bought it, however just recently while I was driving around (not bumping hard, just normal playing) it "stopped" working. There was no wierd sounds, static, it just stopped playing. I kept driving home since I figured the amp fuse might have blown or gone into protect mode , which would have been no big deal. However after looking at it, and testing it, I think the amp is fine. I don't have a DMM so I took a home stero speaker, wired it to the amp just to see if I got a sound from the speaker and it worked fine. However even after Rewiring my entire amp and sub, the sub still produces no noise. Is my sub broken? I have had a blown sub before and it still atleast made sound, so I am confused as to what is wrong with this sub?Please let me know your thoughts, i would like to get this fixed.Kevin
July 28, 200916 yr push done on cone and see if their is a nasty sound or does it move freely?do the same test you did with your amp to your sub, take it in the house and wire it a high ohm load and play it on a home stereo at low volume to see if it works; but if the home speaker worked on the amp and the sub doesnt then I think its something going on wit the subwoofer.
July 28, 200916 yr Have you checked your connection inside the box? A wire may have come loose while driving.
July 29, 200916 yr Author Yes and I even took it one step further and used new speaker wire on the sub. Strange.
July 29, 200916 yr Hmm that's odd.Could have fried something?Did you try doing what jay-cee said and hook it up to a home audio amp?Or if you know someone with subwoofers, hook it up to their amp and see if you get anything.
July 29, 200916 yr Author I will try his method in the morning. I can't do that right now because baby is sleeping.
July 29, 200916 yr Since you have a DMM, measure the resistance of the voice coils. If they don't read what they should, it's blown. Subs don't all blow in the same fashion.
July 29, 200916 yr Oh my bad, when I was recalling your first post the "don't" part got left out of my memory. Well, you should get one then!
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