Dust Cap

[muddybass 13]

When I play certain songs and music for long periods of time my dust cap get pretty warm, i know you are suppost to smell a glue smell at first but its been about 3 months since ive had my q's and i still smell glue... ive had it oscillioscoped, what else could cause this? the two Q's are on 2 Alpine Pdx 600.1

Anyone Have any ideas as to why this might be? any comments would be truly appreciated

[BKOLFO4 29]

I would get it scoped again. Make sure the gain is set right. Sounds like they are getting pretty hot.

When you had it scoped, did you also have a clamp meter to see how much power the amps were actually producing???

[audio-neon 34]

tiny power for those subs, make sure you aren't distorting stuff to make it loud enough for your tastes.

[jonbearsmt 919]

clipping the dog crap out of that set up are we?

[NDMstang65 403]

Probably still trying to turn the volume up too much to compensate for the lack of power that they need...should have gone with SSD's with those amps...

[shizzzon 461]

after you get it scoped again, do NOT increase any setting-

(volume, bass, gain, bass boost, raise LPF, lower SSF)

Remember volume it's set at when scoped for maximum clean output so you do not exceed it.

IF all checks out well, it's possible that the smell you smell may be caused from the smell trapped inside the sub box if it is ported.

[muddybass 13]

thanks for all the help, ill go have them o-scoped again.... and what kind of efficient amp do you think i should get for those 2 for the time being, budget would be around 600-800

[bodybuilding90 0]

Probably still trying to turn the volume up too much to compensate for the lack of power that they need...should have gone with SSD's with those amps...

yea ur 400 watts off the rms for the Q's, that just might be why