Dead V18-1200....am i the first to kill one?

we took the new v1200 loaded Hogs out last night, started with 2, ended with 1.

spent ages setting up a good gain structure before the gig, got it all sounding nice, went home and had my tea and came back to the gig, which kicked off at about 8.

went back to the gig, powered up the system and got cracking, for about 3 hours it was all good, getting loads of positive comments about the sound.

read into the T amp specs and it does say it will produce 2kw @8r in bridged mono, so after rog's comments about hanging an infinate 8 off them and throwing 2kw at each driver i decided even with chinese watts we had enough juice in the amps to give them plenty of clean power without clipping, limiters were set @ -15Db on the DCX with 35-80hz 48 butterworth x over, and the gains on the amps set to about 3 o clock (not very technical i know)

all seemed well, so i went out for a smoke with my mate, came back, and 1 bin had stopped working, no noise or cone movement, dead as a dodo.
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checked everything, swapped the cable from the working bin, nothing. couldnt get to the driver as it was behind a grill, but i'm about 98% sure its dead.

as i wasnt in the room when it happened its hard to say what happened before the bin stopped working, but the bar manager didnt mention any distortion, or that the box sounded like it was about to blow, it just stopped working.....?

gonna pick up the system this morning and inspect the suspect driver, if it is blown i'm going to be pretty gutted, firstly because of the cost factor, and secondly, after running fanes for years and moving up to the big boys driver, i did hope they would be able to take more power than we were giving them last night without sh*tting themselves on their first outing.

so anyone know what the damage is for a v1200 recone? or am i the first to need one?
if i am the first, maybe void will send me one as a prize!

i wasnt a proline, 2 T amp 2400's in bridge mode, 1 on each bin.

dispite the fact that T amps get totally slated on here, i'm happy running them for the time being, there was also a small (5-6kw) in house martin audio w3 system being powered by crest amps, which was running before i got there, and when i switched our rig on the output from our "DIY boxes, 'crappy' T amps & vintage macrotechs" made the matrin rig look like a joke....got loads of positive comments from punters and dj's for the bass that was being churned out.

dont get me wrong, i'm happy with our purchase, the bass is very defined, and the output from 2 bins is pretty damn impressive, last night was a bit of a learning curve to see how far we could push the boxes, and now we know!!
and i think even the mighty 1850 would have been on its knee's with the kind of punishment the V-1200's were taking last night.... straight up relentless dubstep pressure! i've never seen an 18" driver in action quite like a V-1200, its very impressive indeed.

gonna pick the gear up shortly so i'll know for sure what the cause of death was in a few hours.

T-amp? slating? Talk to heathrom B line!

rog said it would eat up 2k from an inf 8 so i thought it would be ok on the T amp, which probably puts out considerably less in the bass end. it wasnt going balls to the wall either, gains were set at about 3 o clock so there was more juice in the tanks, all the levels were looking good, nothing had been turned up while i had been gone...its a real mystery.

although highly unlikely, there is a massive part of me that hopes that a wire has come loose inside the box, when i put my head down near the mouth, the air movement going on was quite frightening....so i'm praying a shoddy bit of soldering will save the day!

the PD1850 instead of the P.Audio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr9xWZy21No&feature=related

sorry couldn´t help it ever seen this picture , don´t you always listen , to people , I say V-1000 in the hog should be running 2 of xp 3000 tonight got Busy Signal in the house tonight-.

norty303 wrote: So the Void V18-1200 is a P-audio OEM then?

you don´t say