Fi Recone help! sending in sub!

[CamaroFI 0]

I need help on sending in the sub and knowing what all i need to purchase for the recone. Its a FI BTL 12. Where it says Configure Recone SIZE-12 COIL-FLAT TYPE- NEW SINGLE OHM- DUAL 1 Ohm Basket-??? & Im sending in the sub. I need to know if there is some kind of cooler i can put on the sub to keep it from getting hot. its in the hatch of a 92 camaro RS. PLEASE HELP.

I cant go any longer without bass

&& ITs runnnin off a aq2200

[NDMstang65 403]

You don't need a cooler. You need to learn how to not clip your amplifier, and set your subsonic filter properly...and not burn everything up. The cooling technology in the BTL simply works better then anything else on the market..period. If you are burning tinsel leads and stuff up it is simply due to what I said above. Massive amounts of over excursion and severe clipping. 99% of the energy that you are putting into that sub is nothing but burned off and wasted heat. You ONLY hear 1% of what you are putting into it...which is why cooling technology is so important.

BTW, you do NOT want the flatwound coil on the BTL. You want the High Xmax coil. Otherwise you are only going to have 19mm of excursion.

Also..you ordered the wrong coil on the recone. You need a dual 2ohm coil, not a dual 1ohm. That amplifier is designed to do power into 1ohm..which is a dual 2ohm coil in parallel. Which I'm guessing..you probably wired the amp to .5ohm with the original coil because you saw videos on the internet and your friends told you that .5ohm is better and louder right?

There is a sticker on the outside of the box that explains everything. BASS BOOST IS BAD, don't use it. Don't use any sort of "super ultra mega bass" Eq setting on your headunit. Your subwoofer portion of things should be set to zero, do NOT boost it. Do NOT wire anything under 1ohm...it is a quick way to burn stuff up.

[CamaroFI 0]

The sub was wired at 1 ohm. i havent ordered the recone yet. i seen where i put 1 ohm instead of 2 i was needing advice for it. It was at 1 ohm ging into the amp. the bass boost has been set on 0. on the cd player its set a -6. which is as far down as it will go. When i send in the sub how much is everything going to cost & How long will it take?

[CamaroFI 0]

&& Please tell me how to not clip my amplifier. My voltage is staying around 13.9

[NDMstang65 403]

The sub was wired at 1 ohm. i havent ordered the recone yet. i seen where i put 1 ohm instead of 2 i was needing advice for it. It was at 1 ohm ging into the amp. the bass boost has been set on 0. on the cd player its set a -6. which is as far down as it will go. When i send in the sub how much is everything going to cost & How long will it take?

If you did exactly that then you would never have burned it up ..

When we receive the sub then we'll dissect it and tell you exactly what you did wrong. Clipping is simply over driving your signal on your RCA's. Your headunit puts out a voltage signal, it is a sine wave up until a point then it starts to get a square/notch wave form in it..your amplifier only makes this bigger.

Where did you turn your volume on the headunit? How was the gain set up?

[CamaroFI 0]

The volume was set on 38. but i never turnt it up past 33. The radio goes up to 50 so 38 is 3/4s of the way up. the gain was adjusted with the multimeter i used. we took the square root of 2200 and qualed it out on the multimeter to get about 2100 going to it.

[CamaroFI 0]

&& itd help if i could get a call on my cell. lol cause im hardly on this computer i got work and everything. if you could call and explain this to me. 910 280 9536. The amp still works of course, but i just need help on setting everything up bro. Heck i'd drive to whereever and let you tune it or whatever so it wont happen again.