JL 10W3 Randomly stopped
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JL 10W3 Randomly stopped
Any help would be appreciated. I have had my JL10W3 10inch Sub working well for over a month now. Its hooked up to my Alpine M500 Amp. I didnt change any settings but noticed it wasnt bumping anymore. The power light glows on the amp. I checked the wires/connections and dont see anything wrong....Any Ideas?
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Yeah I pulled out both fuses and both looked okay. I checked the main fuse..i even changed it with my extra (at the battery). The alpine light comes on and the subwoofer doesnt show any sign of power. There is no vibration at all through the subwoofer. I have trouble believing the subwoofer is blown after just one month at not even 3/5 power.
Thanks for your help so far.
Thanks for your help so far.
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Yeah I spliced into oem bose harness. I did check the connections...but I dont see how i could lose all 4 spliced wires at the same time. The radio works so the plug is still in. When a sub blows out...does it normally just act as if it has no power or does it still emit a little sound/vibration?
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Quick way to tell if the sub is cooked is by smelling it. Does it have a burnt smell at all? The second way to determine if a sub is dead is by grabbing a battery 9v or bigger and touching the + and - terminals to the same on speaker. Does it pop/move at all. Don't hold the wires there, just touch them. Also if the speaker has two sets of terminals try both. This is all assuming you do not have access to a digital multimeter. If you do, test the impedance of the speaker terminals. If the speaker doesn't pop at all, its
toast.
Just because you are not using all of the power of the amp, a speaker still can be beaten to an early grave.
toast.
Just because you are not using all of the power of the amp, a speaker still can be beaten to an early grave.
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Come to think of it it does smell a bit odd inside the box. I cant tell if it smelled like that before...I have a 4080 box. It does smell like some sort of smoke/burn/campfire
though...but that might be because the box was custom made from 4080. I will try the battery thing. I thought JL was quality stuff though. I honestly havent beaten this speaker down at all...PLus i bought it from Techtronics and they arent responding to my emails....(I cant send it back to JL-because its not an authorized store)
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The combo will work well but if it is not tuned correctly and played within the cpabilities it can kill the sub. An easy way to tell if you are owerdriving a sub it to plug your ears when you are playing it loud to block out the high frequencies and if you hear a slapping/popping noise, you are beating the sub to death. Your frequencie dial should have been set at 110-100 hz and the bass eq should not have been more than 1/2-3/4.
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I had the bass eq set even lower than that (never went above half-just sounded louder with no accuracy) The gain was set at halfway for a while..then turned a few ticks above that...mabe 3/5ths the way up. I had the frequency set at 80 hz constantly and moved it no higher than 120 hz when tuning the system.