wiring amp and two woofers?

How do you have the subs wired right now?

i have them in series ran to the one channel the amp offers

I have checked over the wiring plenty of times, rewired them with new wire, and re wired them on the inside.  Im so confused and dont know where to begin, it hits desent but it puts off the smell

are you sure those subs are at more than 1 ohm? have you tried to meter them at the amp?if the subs are 3 ohm dual voice coil then chances are you have each sub at 1.5ohms, if you have the two subs wired together the same way then you amp is seeing something like .7 ohms, obviously less than 1 ohm. if you wire them a differently you will get a 3 ohm load, which is good for your amp but you wont get full power from it so you have a dilemma. i would suggest the best way to fix your problem is to get another amp and just have one amp per sub.

last time i checked 2 3 ohm subs ran into series creates a 3 ohm load, and then once they both thit the same channel it turns into a 1.5 ohm load.

 2 3 ohm speakers wired in series is 6 ohms

wolfpack557 wrote: last time i checked 2 3 ohm subs ran into series creates a 3 ohm load, and then once they both thit the same channel it turns into a 1.5 ohm load.

they are 3 ohm DUAL voice coil. so its either he has each wired in series to make EACH 6 ohms, and if both are wired together in series that will give him a 12 ohm load. so im assuming that is NOT how it is wired and his description isn't completely right. if he ran them in series/parallel configuration, that would give him a 3 ohm total load and i dont see that causing the problems he is having, so i assumed he ran everything in parallel because this is the only way i see that would cause his amp to heat up other than something being wrong with his amp.

use a series parallel configuration giving you 3 ohms at the amp you should not have a problem.