I've had my sub and amp for five years now, I had my stereo on and all of a sudden it smelled like burning plastic in my car and now my sub doesn't work and it was my amp that smelled like burning plastic. What could have happened?
Well, take the sub and get a normal aa size battery. Connect the - to the - on the sub and touch the pos sub wire on the battery. the sub should move and make a scratching sound. If it's a dvc try on the other side as well.If it's not doing anything, you might have snapped your tinsel wire or even worse, burnt your voice coil. However, if it's working, then it's all down to the amp. Does the protection light show when it's turned on? If the normal operating light is on, then I would suggest trying another speaker or woofer, on each channel, turn the gain down all the way to test it. Let me know.
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