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Wiring 2ohm dual voice coil 15’s


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hurtado_roberto 
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Posted: January 13, 2005 at 7:38 PM / IP Logged  

So if you bridge them only using one voice coil your speakers RMS would be 100-500w and the amp's RMS would be 800w, so there's a greater chance you might overheat them.

If you get 200w from your amp at 4 ohm and the speakers is 100-500w then it should sound ok but the excursion will not be that great.  I'm just learning here so I might have given alot of bs ideas.

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well, you can always buy two more subs and use them isobarically.......but that's not too pratical.....

There really is no good solution for you, other than to wire up the subs for two ohms, and then wire each sub to one channel.

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What's the best I could do if I just got the 4ohm DVC Vr15's?
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Once upon a time, not too long before I started this fiberglass box with the 15's, I thought I knew a little about car stereo but these diagrams all look like the power is coming from one channel(not two/stereo). Also before these I had never seen wiring done between the voice-coils of two seperate subs spliced into one wire and bridged to an amp, or am I misinterpreting the diagrams?
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Posted: January 14, 2005 at 9:25 AM / IP Logged  

or am I misinterpreting the diagrams?

Yes, that's what it is.  These diagrams are shown like that to make everything neat and tidy, and all the lines will be straight.  In real life it would look more like the following, one that I drew:

Wiring 2ohm dual voice coil 15’s - Page 2 -- posted image.

The wiring is series/parallel, in that the coils of each sub are in series and the subs themselves are in parallel (as in option 2 in the above linked diagram).  Connection to the amp is normally shown without detail, because in some cases:

    • both subs will be connected to one channel, or
    • the load is bridged to a two-channel amp, or
    • the load is connected to a mono amp, and the amp might have dual terminals.

You would use the terminals on your amp that is proper for your situation.  In your case you would use the bridged wiring diagram shown on your amp, or in your amp's manual, which should be left channel positive and right channel negative terminals.

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So you're saying that even though the amps specs say 400watts RMS x2 @2ohm there's no way to get 400 watts out of each channel?
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Posted: January 14, 2005 at 10:25 AM / IP Logged  

Please show me where I said that.  Keep in mind you're now talking about using DVC 4ohm subs instead of the subs you first asked about.

800 W X 1 @ 4 Ohms Bridged RMS

This is the bridged spec that you posted.  Isn't that the same as 400 watts per channel?

And you're welcome.

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With the speakers you have there is no way you can wire them so they give you 400watts per channel.  You have to have them wired as 4ohms to each channel which will give you 200watts to each channel.  Your set-up could be compared to mine; I have two speakers which are at 4ohms.  When I had that amp I was only able to wire each sub to each channel which gave me 200watts RMS.  This was enough to feel some good bass from my system.  I upgraded to the 2004 model and a new box so now I feel like it's too much bass at times.

Just connect each speaker to each channel like this:

Wiring 2ohm dual voice coil 15’s - Page 2 -- posted image.

Try it to see how it sounds.  I think it will sound good depending on you box.

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So the best thing to do would be getting the 4ohm DVC 15's and then it would be 400 watts per channel?
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