wiring subs confusion

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Topic: wiring subs confusion

Posted By: mazzasec
Subject: wiring subs confusion
Date Posted: February 12, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Well I am looking at this chart. And I am confused cause it says to go - to - but its a positive voice coil? can someone explain how this works! thank you

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Posted By: still_walkin
Date Posted: February 13, 2008 at 4:45 AM

you r saying there are to positives on one side sounds wrong or maybe you have the speaker turned the wrong way take a pic of the sub and we will go from there

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Posted By: audioman2007
Date Posted: February 13, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Yea you probably have the sub turned the wrong way and its messing you up. The only other thing I can think of is that there are 2 positives on one side and 2 negatives on the other side, but I doubt that.

Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: February 13, 2008 at 9:19 PM

The diagram you show above is an illustration. It doesn't necessarily have the polarity of the coils in the exact locations as your particular sub does. When drawing a diagram, you can put things anywhere you want to (just take a look at some of my diagrams ;#). Just follow the wiring lines shown in the diagram and attach each end to the polarity the diagram shows.

Any coil will have both a positive and a negative terminal. Make sure you first identify each set of coil terminals before you start connecting wires.

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