Coil fried or..?

[anders1127 10+ year member]

I have a Kicker Cvr 12" 4 ohm, wired to a kenwood 600 watt amp but ever since I've had the sub I've tried wiring it down to a 2 ohm load, every time I try to, it begins to do a "heart beat" distortion and end up wiring it back in a series, 8 ohm load. This sub was brand new and is only 2-3 months old

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[oTurtlez 10+ year member]

How were you wiring it for the 2 ohm load?

 

[BrownVanMan 10+ year member]

sounds like an amp issue and that at 8 ohm your not getting enough power to notice. do you have a pioneer HU?

 

[anders1127 10+ year member]

I think it's a problem with the sub itself, I've tried it to three different amps, few days ago I upgraded my power wire to 4 Awg and other wires but tried it with a new 1000 watt mono amp that's also 2 ohm stable, it didn't get warm or anything but the sub did the same thing again. I'm wiring it just as the kicker wiring diagram says to, - black/white dot, + red/non white to amp, then a wire from red to red and black to black. But I don't, stock HU with low level line out, car is 2012 jeep, haven't had the extra money to upgrade the headunit yet since it needs the Chrysler specific harness and all.

 

[anders1127 10+ year member]

Do you think it could be the LOC? I'm starting to think it's the problem. I got it done at the local car audio place since at the time I didn't know how to install one.