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I am a general manager of an ice rink and I went out and bought about $20,000.00 worth of club lighting last year. Before I went out and invested in this lighting, I contacted the manufacture of the speakers (17 of them) that are hanging over the ice in the overhead.
It took a year and a half to get the distributor out to check on the speakers because some were working and others were not.
Yesterday they came in and took 10 speakers down out of 17. When I asked them what do they think was wrong, they said that we had over-driven them and they went bad. Even though they have a 3 year warranty, the speakers are now 4 years old. I missed the cut-off date becuae they would bet back to me a year and a half ago. So I eat it....no big deal, I guess.
However, to replace them it's going to cost $385 for the pair, will need 5 new pairs.
So, the nut job that I am, I took off the screen and unscrewed the speaker from the housing and noticed that at the bottom of the speaker was a circut board with two large ceramic resistors and a couple of large capacitors mounted to the board.
Well, when I looked inside, one of the ceramic resistors was on the board and sitting in the bottom of the housing. So I opened a couple more bad speakers and several had both ceramic resistors and a capacitor missing of the board and sitting in the bottom of the housing.
Now, I called the guys that pulled them off the ceiling and they told me that I drove them too hard. But here's my question.....
If I drove them to distruction, then why are there still 7 in the overhead that work?:dunno:
Now logic would dictate that if I drove them all the same speed because they are all daisy chained together, would they be all bad?
I just think that maybe it's a bad product. I noticed that the manufacture soldered the components on the board, then pushed them over on their side and glued them to the board. Maybe they did this to keep the components from raddling off the board. But would you think that by pushing them over after they have been soldered, that they might have put stress on the actual leads.
Well, I am going to fix them myself and see if I can save myself a buck. So here's the main question....
The club lights that I put in, in the overhead, are designed to go off with base. So they said that I drove them too hard trying to get base out of them, but they were not designed for that. So, I would like to place some Subwoofers in the over head to take care of this problem.
What size should I get? 8, 10, 12, 15 inch speakers to do the job? Plus, can anyone recommend a good one? Plus, how many should I get for a rink that is 200 ft by 100 ft? Will one do the job? If so, do I place it in the over head at center, or off to the side?
Thanks for your help in advance
Head Coach
It took a year and a half to get the distributor out to check on the speakers because some were working and others were not.
Yesterday they came in and took 10 speakers down out of 17. When I asked them what do they think was wrong, they said that we had over-driven them and they went bad. Even though they have a 3 year warranty, the speakers are now 4 years old. I missed the cut-off date becuae they would bet back to me a year and a half ago. So I eat it....no big deal, I guess.
However, to replace them it's going to cost $385 for the pair, will need 5 new pairs.
So, the nut job that I am, I took off the screen and unscrewed the speaker from the housing and noticed that at the bottom of the speaker was a circut board with two large ceramic resistors and a couple of large capacitors mounted to the board.
Well, when I looked inside, one of the ceramic resistors was on the board and sitting in the bottom of the housing. So I opened a couple more bad speakers and several had both ceramic resistors and a capacitor missing of the board and sitting in the bottom of the housing.
Now, I called the guys that pulled them off the ceiling and they told me that I drove them too hard. But here's my question.....
If I drove them to distruction, then why are there still 7 in the overhead that work?:dunno:
Now logic would dictate that if I drove them all the same speed because they are all daisy chained together, would they be all bad?
I just think that maybe it's a bad product. I noticed that the manufacture soldered the components on the board, then pushed them over on their side and glued them to the board. Maybe they did this to keep the components from raddling off the board. But would you think that by pushing them over after they have been soldered, that they might have put stress on the actual leads.
Well, I am going to fix them myself and see if I can save myself a buck. So here's the main question....
The club lights that I put in, in the overhead, are designed to go off with base. So they said that I drove them too hard trying to get base out of them, but they were not designed for that. So, I would like to place some Subwoofers in the over head to take care of this problem.
What size should I get? 8, 10, 12, 15 inch speakers to do the job? Plus, can anyone recommend a good one? Plus, how many should I get for a rink that is 200 ft by 100 ft? Will one do the job? If so, do I place it in the over head at center, or off to the side?
Thanks for your help in advance
Head Coach