just for future reference, you can take a voltmeter and test the coils or use a 9v battery and perform what they call the "pop test" and place pos to pos/neg to neg from batt to each coil and just touch it together, don't hold it on there, if it makes the speaker jump out the coil is good, that technique is also used to test speaker polarity
Neither matters when the voice coils are reverse polarity. Looks as though the coils are in parallel while one of the coils is pushing the other is puling. that's why the wire is jumping.
You didn't have go thru all that drama, you can test speakers by hooking them up to a AA battery. Instead of the wires going to an amp, take that end of the wires to a battery. Hold the negative to the batterys negative and when you touch the positive wire to the battery's positive you should hear a scratching sound. If you don't hear nuttin they blown. Thats it, simple as that nothing eise needed, works every time. Thought everyone knew this, admit its ghetto as funk but it works. Learned it back in the day prowling cars. Try it out, youll see what I'm talking bout.
Actually, if you touch the wire and complete circuit of current, the speaker pushes the cone out, or pulls in, depending if you have pos to pos and neg to neg, but do it backwards and it does the opposite. The more you know....
Foreal Cuz I always look to see if the speaker's are pushing in or out when the Bass drop Cuz keep the volume low If they are hitting (Pushing Outward) you are straight if not just flip the wires also if you need more power from the amp leave the ground wires alone but switch the hot wires on the amp right red to left+ and left red to right+ that's how you bridge a amp double the watts😮😊
I'm guessing those were the Skar SDR subwoofers. There known for not handling much watts. It says 600rms and can't handle any more than that. I used to have a 18" SDR for my room and that subwoofer ended up blowing. If you like a good subwoofer for the price the American Bass XFL is nice and the NVX VCW v3. There's also a new brand out called Slapz car audio and those subwoofers are very good for the price.
Just pissed me clean tf off u blew those speaker's u dnt kno what u doin never hook up audio with straight juice u to use to doin the hood way that's crazy all u had to do was cut the power off hook it up the right way and test them u ginna blow them every time doin it like dat dude
So my question is, why would you test speakers with other wires still connected???? this is some of the dumbest shit I ever seen it could have simply been wired wrong or either only one of the speakers were blown and shorting the amp!!!🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
simple battery AAA, AA, C, D, 9V any one of those will do. it will tell you if you have the polarity connected the way it should be and it will let you know if the speaker is good or not.
Id unhook the wires jumping to other coils . They could still have plenty of life left in them just the polarity is making wires jump because its backwards
Props for trying… some people just don’t need to fuck with tools or electrical. Do some research, and hone in on your tool holding/using skills they’re just hand tools not even power tools don’t let them beat you up. I guarantee those mf work and u just threw away a couple hundred dollars 💀😭 literally BLACK is always To black (NEGATIVE) red , copper, white ALWAYS (positive).
No, obviously not touching them PERIOD,would have been the best coarse of action. My guy barely knows how to tie his laces. Practicing phase:2, he's perfected The Bunny Ears method.
Please, have someone else hook them up. You have no buisness touching any electronical appliance. Not sure if that runs in your family, but I think I'd have it checked out ASAP.😂
this is the main reason that i dont watch this type of installation, because its a backyard ghetto style. im not saying all back yards are junk, just me personally i dont trust it. i hooked up all my system from people that know what they are doing and just follow their lead on installation.
They had them wired wrong. They were grounding themselves out. You should have tried 1 with just the 2 wires from the Amp and removed all the other wires.
All this waiting of time to just find out they blown why eles would someone put them out by the road lol duh but anyways they throw away a good prefab bix them monsters in that classic the business
Terminals on the box already melted, my guys amp ground is smaller than the power, I'm sure there's so much more shit wrong we can't even see. Research before you do installs people, this is how shit burns down. Oh btw you went thru so much shit that a multimeter or even a 9v battery could've told you hours ago
Hope you see this before you trash them. Look like the positive of one coil was connected to the negative of the other and vice versa. Thats probably why it blew. One coil trying to go up wile the other trying to go down
So... if you wire subs in series, you hook positive to negative, you can Google "subs series wiring". It doubles down the ohm load, and if you wire in parralel, the ohm load doubles up. Ie; 4ohm x2 coils in series, run 8 ohms, but wired parralel, 2 ohm, hotter, harder load. Audibly, barely noticeable, but very powerful.
Yoo bro you dont know what you doing. If getting a spark you connect wires usually means a positive and ground a touching. You connected the speakers in reverse polarity. So you cant get any sound.
