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So this happened in my brother's SIR. He had no water with him so all he could do is film to show me later.
subs were power bass xxl 10's ran on one earthquake D3.
THE VIDEO
THE AFTERMATH
one of the subs completely burned. only motor and basket were left. It burned for good 15 minutes.
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i know i would have taken my shirt off to smother it and put it out. i would send pix and stuff to powerbass. the vid i wouldnt they sound too happy and letting it burn for 15 mins, hmmm.
sounded like giggling school girls,lol.
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he tried to put the fire out but it was burning inside of the box, a shirt would not help at all.
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yes it would smother the fire by covering the basket and ports. fire needs oxygen to burn...
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that is good thinking sir. but how do u cover the burning sub? a shirt would just burn.
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he!! just piss on them they are only powerbass subs,lol. would def send the pix in to powerbass to let them know about this and maybe get them replaced...
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i bet too this is the first time EVER there was a fire in the trunk with a earthquake amp and it was the amp,lol...
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thats what everyone says. OMG it was NOT the D3??????????????
the D3 still works after this.
what's powerbass' email?
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i think that those will not be under warrenty.LOL
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and why not he was putting around rms power to them and they have a 3yr warrenty. it's not like he had 5k per sub. if i still carried powerbass i would warrenty them. powerbass needs to look into why this happened or they could be responsible for more car fires...
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quote:Originally posted by pimpin at my house: and why not he was putting around rms power to them and they have a 3yr warrenty. it's not like he had 5k per sub. if i still carried powerbass i would warrenty them. powerbass needs to look into why this happened or they could be responsible for more car fires...
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the other sub was still playing while the other one was on fire.
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I don't think I would warranty the subs because you don't have pictures or videos of what was going on before that happened. It is the same thing as watching people abuse their subs by plugging them into a wall socket.
Not that these folks would do it but how do you know they didn't do something for them to catch on fire. I know guys that would blow a sub up then plug it into the wall and take it back for warranty just to get a new sub. Others might decide to set it on fire after they blow it up.
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would warrenty with pix but not afte the vid of it sounds like bevis laughing,lol...
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sounds like a big case of look at me look at me.
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mine looked like the same thing when mine burnt up, i had a 9915 series paraellel and the coil went, the xx colossus kept dumping current on the sub, and my 99 went up in flames almost lost my truck
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If you had that running at 1ohm, then you are pouring high current through the vc's. Also, your installation is DANGEROUSLY messy. I'm surprized you haven't had a fire before this. On the right, you have a large battery held in place by the sub, on the left you have wires pinched between the sub and the amp. That's just not safe, my friend. Proper installation is more important than ANYTHING!!!
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yea the install is a mess correct but what dose running the amp at 1ohm have anything to do with it. the amp is class D, NOT a high current amp. sorry but running high current threw the vc's is totally ignorant statement.
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