Troubleshooting a bad Speaker
Troubleshooting a bad Speaker
I have a set of Kicker 40CS674 powered by the stock HU and RF PBR300x2. I'm very happy with this set up. Took a road trip this past weekend and about an hour into it, the right speaker stopped working. Rode a couple more hours like that (Still great sound out of the other one). Had to stop for awhile so I took the fairing off to check my connections and all was good. Took off down the road again and it started working again... then it quit again and never worked for the rest of the trip except there was a very faint sound coming from the tweeter I think.
Get home, take the fairing off and start troubleshooting. As soon as I turn the ignition on, it's working. So I crank the volume up for a few minutes and it quits again. Smacked it and worked for a few seconds... Fortunately, they are under warranty and I have a new set coming but I'm just curious if anyone can explain what happened to it. This is what I did:
Swapped the connections around (left speaker would play connected to the right, right speaker would not play connected to the left)
Connected a 9v battery to the speaker terminals. Woofer popped up in phase, dropped down out of phase.
Checked continuity: good
Tested Ohms: At first it read 3.6. Then I moved it around flipped it over and measured it various times and was getting anywhere between 40 and 216.
So this is the question: what happened to make it have so much resistance? Just curious. Google was no help.
Get home, take the fairing off and start troubleshooting. As soon as I turn the ignition on, it's working. So I crank the volume up for a few minutes and it quits again. Smacked it and worked for a few seconds... Fortunately, they are under warranty and I have a new set coming but I'm just curious if anyone can explain what happened to it. This is what I did:
Swapped the connections around (left speaker would play connected to the right, right speaker would not play connected to the left)
Connected a 9v battery to the speaker terminals. Woofer popped up in phase, dropped down out of phase.
Checked continuity: good
Tested Ohms: At first it read 3.6. Then I moved it around flipped it over and measured it various times and was getting anywhere between 40 and 216.
So this is the question: what happened to make it have so much resistance? Just curious. Google was no help.
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I have a set of Kicker 40CS674 powered by the stock HU and RF PBR300x2. I'm very happy with this set up. Took a road trip this past weekend and about an hour into it, the right speaker stopped working. Rode a couple more hours like that (Still great sound out of the other one). Had to stop for awhile so I took the fairing off to check my connections and all was good. Took off down the road again and it started working again... then it quit again and never worked for the rest of the trip except there was a very faint sound coming from the tweeter I think.
Get home, take the fairing off and start troubleshooting. As soon as I turn the ignition on, it's working. So I crank the volume up for a few minutes and it quits again. Smacked it and worked for a few seconds... Fortunately, they are under warranty and I have a new set coming but I'm just curious if anyone can explain what happened to it. This is what I did:
Swapped the connections around (left speaker would play connected to the right, right speaker would not play connected to the left)
Connected a 9v battery to the speaker terminals. Woofer popped up in phase, dropped down out of phase.
Checked continuity: good
Tested Ohms: At first it read 3.6. Then I moved it around flipped it over and measured it various times and was getting anywhere between 40 and 216.
So this is the question: what happened to make it have so much resistance? Just curious. Google was no help.
Get home, take the fairing off and start troubleshooting. As soon as I turn the ignition on, it's working. So I crank the volume up for a few minutes and it quits again. Smacked it and worked for a few seconds... Fortunately, they are under warranty and I have a new set coming but I'm just curious if anyone can explain what happened to it. This is what I did:
Swapped the connections around (left speaker would play connected to the right, right speaker would not play connected to the left)
Connected a 9v battery to the speaker terminals. Woofer popped up in phase, dropped down out of phase.
Checked continuity: good
Tested Ohms: At first it read 3.6. Then I moved it around flipped it over and measured it various times and was getting anywhere between 40 and 216.
So this is the question: what happened to make it have so much resistance? Just curious. Google was no help.
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