My neighbor had his subs out of his box today.. While he had them out I put a dmm on his voice coils (ohms)and one of them would not get a reading... the other 4 VC's got the correct readings. He put them back in and wired them all in parallel down to 1 ohm(supposed to be) of course the ohm reading at the amp was a little high...(bad VC).. He hooked em up and they still hit hard.... This isn't gonna hurt anything else, right? He said that he doesn't care if he completely blows the sub with the bad VC! The difference in bass is not noticable to our ears... of course we dont know how long that VC has been out.. thanks
The sub with the blown coil may lose the other coil shortly, as powering only one coil will often damage it.
The impedance presented to the amp is higher now that one coil is blown. That will cause the amp to clip at high volume as it cannot produce as much power into a higher impedance. Then the clipped signal can damage the other sub.
Really? Theoretically that individual coil should just see less power.
It shouldn't clip at high volume, just produce less total power. Your gain setting (the physical position of the knob) doesn't need to be adjusted when you put a different nom. impedance on it so why would it start clipping with a higher impedance?
