Why am i blowing channels on my receiver?

geek
geek Posts: 1
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All i have is a pair of 5YR OLD rti-A7s. They're hooked up to a Outlaw Audio rs2150.
In five yrs i burned up a channel at least twice.. Outlaw says, it a Speaker impedance / wiring fault.

I pulled out all the speakers and tested ohms. All the ohms match for the Mids, Tweets and Sub's. The crossovers look and smell perfect. I checked basic continuity on PCB's; boards match.

Is there any other field tests i can do before buying new crossovers?

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Maybe you are playing it too loud.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,544
    They are 8 ohm nominal speakers, not a difficult load. BlueFox's comment has serious merit. At what volume level are you listening?
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    If your using bare wire ends to connect the speakers, make sure the wire in the posts on either end doesn't touch an adjoining post or other wire.

    Could be your playing them too loud also or the receiver is in need of repair.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,440
    Tony I'm guessing that if this receiver has been repaired "at least TWICE" then we may be able to rule that out. sound like they are over driving the receiver into severe clipping....sound to me that you are very lucky you are not blow drivers and tweeters
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    If it's been repaired twice already, maybe a third time is in order. Can't rule it out, something he's doing is clipping that receiver and it should have no problems driving the 7's to pretty frickin' loud levels.

    Maybe he's using the A-B switch to ghetto bi-amp them, then burying the volume dial, I dunno. Need more info.
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    edited April 2016
    tonyb wrote: »
    Maybe he's using the A-B switch to ghetto bi-amp them, then burying the volume dial, I dunno. Need more info.

    Outlaw lists the RR-2150 as 4 ohm stable and do say the A & B speakers can be run at the same time if both pairs are no lower than an 8 ohm load.

    Wouldn't the speakers normally let go before the amp in a clipping situation?

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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    Do you have anything covering up the vents?
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,440
    littlewoodboats wrote: »

    Wouldn't the speakers normally let go before the amp in a clipping situation?

    Not all the time Depending on how the speakers are hooked up the the receiver/amp it could be seeing a 2ohm load and this in turn could fry parts because of excessive heat and or voltage.

    I'm not saying that this is what is going on in this situation just answering your question

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