I got some lightning bolt speakers today from best buy and hooked them up the reciever that I bought for the bookshelfs that I am going to attempt to build. These things were smoking like crazy! The speakers were rated at 100rms so I wanted to see if they could actually handle that and wow they took it for about 10 seconds lol. It smelled soooo bad I got a few pics of before but I couldnt stand the smell to take of it while they were being fried lol...

 

Occasionally when someone returns a pair of garbage speakers at CC, we plug em into the wall and send em back as a write off. Good times.

 

Damn if you have extra money to throw around, send it my way Fun stuff

 

When I was in high school my buddy and I hooked up some 3 1/2 speaker to a 250 watt amp. Did not last too long , we kept laughing for a while though .

 

I'm gonna go do this right now with some aiwa bookshelves

 

lol I didnt buy them just to blow them up I needed them for something else they just dont need to work...

 

how about an after pic.

 

And what did you buy them for then?

 

my buddy from work asked me to blow his MB Quart 5 1/4, cus there was a ding in it and Tweeter said they'd only replace it if it was "blown"... so i hooked it up to my 800w amp at the time and started slow, then cranked it... thing took a beating, cant believe it lasted as long as it did, prolly like 20 seconds cranked before it smoked.

 

The B1.65.2's are only rated at 50W RMS. Where did you get 100W RMS?

 

Here is our creation after work

 

If you're going the HT route, did you ever consider getting the speakers from partsexpress.com? You could build a tower with mids and tweets for hella cheap from there. I know that's what I am going to do when and if I ever finish modding the Max.

 

Yeah I bought a few different drivers off of parts express already. The only reason I got these was because i needed them as a template for something and they were only $10.

BTW Dan did you get my pm?

 

Man, that's great! I've never actually seen a speaker smoke and spark when blown... I had a Baja 12" sub (250W max) that I decided to blow by hooking it up to my 170W MTX amp all by itself. It lasted a little while, then the bass output went south and it started hissing instead of hitting...

 

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