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Feb 12, 2005 | 01:53 PM

banginlude

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Smoking sub???

We hooked my 1501.bd rockford fosgate to my friends 12 solo baric sub and after playing for a couple of minutes some smoke starting coming out of the port......does anyone know what this is???

Feb 12, 2005 | 08:00 PM

ScareyH22A

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Re: Smoking sub??? (banginlude)

Could be a burnt voice coil or the spider.

Feb 12, 2005 | 08:54 PM

rawkus

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Re: Smoking sub??? (banginlude)

Sometimes the glue heats up on the voice coil and can smoke... still your prob pushing the sub too hard.
Dan

Feb 13, 2005 | 05:20 PM

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Re: Smoking sub??? (banginlude)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by banginlude »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">We hooked my 1501.bd rockford fosgate to my friends 12 solo baric sub and after playing for a couple of minutes some smoke starting coming out of the port......does anyone know what this is???</TD></TR></TABLE>You are driving the amp into "clipping", [playing to loud or not enough current getting to amp] subs VC heats up and burns.