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gcorrea 
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cant do mono, single 4 ohm voice coil if i wire in parallel the amp cant handle a 2 ohm mono load, if i wire in series i end up with a 8 ohm load. i have two amps, but each amp bridged would push about 250 watt rms, and the subs are only 150 rms.
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oh ok now i understand yes the way your wiring them they will hit the same i thaught you were going parallel ok i see yes then your doing it the right way sorry i misunderstood anyways tell me how you make out with the line converter ive never used on personally ive used them in friends cars but never my own so im interested to hear about the result

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infoaudio,

Do not put any diodes inline when connecting an LOC.  An audio signal is basically an AC waveform of sorts, so if you install a diode, you'll get a pulsating DC signal to the amp- only half of the audio signal.  This makes no practical sense.

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hobobasher 
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not to be rude but may i ask why anyone would use a diode inline wiht a loc i wouldent undetstad the logic behine using a dioe since it woulent be needed but im sure somepeople have done that before but i dont see why they woul think it might help

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Maybe he thought it would "isolate" it from the speakers- but it would actually cut your audio signal in half and sound horrible.
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hobobasher 
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oh ok i get it now thanks i didnt know why out of no where you came out wiht that but yeah thats a really good point thanks for bringing that up it will just tap into the rear speaker wires and you will be all good but yeah definatly no diodes that a big no no thank you for clearing that up

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