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the braded wire from my subs terminal to the voice coil broke can i just solder it back together? what might have caused this?
spear is arc audio arc 15 D4 with a pioneer 1000w D series amp
thanks
andrew

yes you can solder the "tinsel leads" and usually its caused by the woofer exceding its xmax.

is there a way to prevent this from happening again? limiting the xmax?

to home depot i go to get an iron

andrew

what kind of box is it in?

2.5 cuft sealed box duel voice coil wired +power with jumper to the other + and -power to the other side with a jumper to the - other voice coil
thanks andrew

turn down your gain.

what were you doing when the sub did this? were you playing it at high volumes? playing test tones? etc...maybe your box is a tad too big.

the speaker wants 3 cuft fopr sealed so its actually on the small side

i was jammin out just left a bad day at work but it wasint louder than i normally jam 22 of 50 on my deck volume the speaker is supposed to peak at 1500 my cheap ass amp i know cant even hit the 750 rms the speaker wants but i was jammin out and i got a phone call and turned my deck off to talk on the phone then i turned it back on and there was no sub

i was listening to fat pat a lil bump but not crazy

thanks
andrew

Jammin at 22 of 50? Your gain might be a little high.

Don't pay attention to peak. Those numbers suck. What is the speakers RMS rating?

750 rms

http://www.arcaudio.com/arc-05/subwoofers/arc_15d4.htm thats the link to the sub after looking at it i got my numbers mixed up it wants 3cuft ported 2.25 sealed so box sixe could be an issue

thanks
andrew