please help a girl with no clue

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Topic: please help a girl with no clue

Posted By: myl85r
Subject: please help a girl with no clue
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 6:52 AM

my neighbour is installing my new xplod 12" sub and 2 channel amp and although he is experienced with electronics etc he hasnt connected equipment for a car before. Basically my question is to wire one subwoofer, does the cable only go to one positive and one negative channel making it a 'mono' ? any suggestions or sites anyone knows of with info?

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Posted By: xetmes
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 7:38 AM

usually you bridge the 2 ch. It should have markings on the terminals about bridging, information is most likely included in any directions that came with it. Check your impedences first as well..

Posted By: staudio
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 4:56 PM

Xplod subs generally operate at 4 Ohm, and most amps can operate at 8, 4, or 2 Ohm stable. If you run the positive of one channel to the positive of the sub, and the negative of the other channel to the negative of the sub it will bridge the amp which will have the effect of making the amp a mono amp. Hope that helped.

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Posted By: bberman1
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 5:01 PM

In order for us to tell you how things should be wired we need the models of the sub and amp so we know what you’re working with here.

Posted By: Alien509
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 5:09 PM

Make sure you tell the friend hooking the stuff you to firstly before anything attach the ground wire before anything else. This will add a ton of protection against your hardware getting damaged. I found out the hard way and fried half my amp while hooking stuff up in my car.

Posted By: xTimx
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 9:03 PM

"friends dont let friends use sony" thats our modo up here in sask canada lol.

Posted By: evolutionoftym
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 11:39 PM

xTimx] wrote:

friends dont let friends use sony" thats our modo up here in sask canada lol.

Goes for Roadshops too....up in West Nyack....

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Posted By: Steven Kephart
Date Posted: January 07, 2004 at 11:58 PM

xTimx] wrote:

friends dont let friends use sony" thats our modo up here in sask canada lol.

I love the Sony stuff I use. Name another company offering 72 dB per octave digital slopes for their crossover. posted_image

I think your above saying should include Xplod to be accurate.

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Posted By: staudio
Date Posted: January 08, 2004 at 12:21 AM

Whats wrong with Sony? Well, yeah, some of their stuff hasn't been that great, but the LS Xplod's as well as the P5's are heavy hitting SPL subs, I owned a pair of LS-1236's and with just a little 300 watt amp bumped 87db, my boy whom I sold them to hits 100+ with his 860 watt amp. Anyway, the whole point of this topic is not to promote Sony speakers, so I'll shut up now posted_image

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Posted By: mobile E
Date Posted: January 08, 2004 at 3:28 PM

theres nothing wrong with sony posted_image

, that is if you can get all there equipment under 20 bucks, cause thats what its worth, there right, friends dont let friends use SONY!

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