Audiobahn AWT15X Problem

i bought an awt15x from my dealer, it's an audiobahn, i hooked it up today to a memphis 1000d.  it was really loud for the whole day, and just out of no where, the thing blew, it made a weird noise as it was blowing, lol, so i opened the trunk, there was no msoke, turned itback on, and the sub wouldn;t even move, the cone was stiff as hell, you couldn;t even push it in, i have never seen this before, you could see and here the voice coil inside moving through the big hole on the bottom of the sub, i don;t understand how the sub blew 1000 watts rms, it says 3000 rms, i know it won't do 3000 rms, but, it should do at least 2000, defect or just crap?

OK since you only care about SPL I am assuming that the amp gains were right pinned so my question is, was the amp clipping. This is where you answer " No Raven you idiot, it wasn't clipping". Then I say are you sure and you go "I am pretty sure it wasnt". Then I say I bet it was and you start thinking to yourself "Mabye it was clipping and I didnt relize it because I was so pumped about getting this massive spl sub that I just pounded the sh*t out of it" Then I say "I have done the same thing, infact most people do this and it is very easy to damage a sub when the amp is clipping" This is were you go "Mabye your right, when I get my new one tomorrow I will have to check it out, I will also have to allow proper break in time before I once again unleash the beast in my trunk". I am glad we could have this conversation.

PS Its like 1 am and I am on a large amount of pain killers for my back so I am not writing this trying to be c**ky or anything, I am just really bored so I am ammusing myself, being I cant lay down to go to sleep and all.

As usual, Raven, even in his reportedly drugged condition, is right on!  :)  Your amp fried your woofer's voice coil and probably because it was clipping like mad.  Memphis makes fantastic equipment and that amp will pump a conservative 1000 watts into 2 ohms, and in clipping mode can probably push an equivalent of 2500 watts before the fuse blows.  Those linear compression subs are, as you say, for pure SPL and are good at what they do.  But I believe the listed 3000 watts RMS rating is BS.  1000 watts is more like it in reality.  I also believe their power handling is limited by the design as they don't move as much air through the VC as standard cones do and therefor tend to heat up a lot more.

Bottom line, if your Memphis amp was clipping more than 10%, it fried your VC and I am not at all surprised.

OH!!!  I totally missed the "5 cuft sealed" comment.  Yea, that's why it blew.  This woofer is designed for a MAX 2 cuft sealed enclosure, and a MAX 4.5 cuft Vented enclosure.  Putting it into a 5 cuft sealed enclosure is pretty much the same thing as running it with NO enclosure.  The cone will not be excursion limited, and I would guess the power handling would be reduced to around, oh, maybe 250 watts MAX.  I'm surprised it lasted more than an hour with 1000 watts, even if your amp is set up perfectly and clipping was never an issue.

Your box did it.  Or rather, YOU did it by using the absolute worst case type of box for this woofer.