Fi BTL destroyed
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Fi BTL destroyed
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
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
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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....
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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
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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
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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.
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.
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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
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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
this sucks
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just tryin to figure out how long it takes to fully break in a BTL