wiring dvc subs
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Topic: wiring dvc subs
Posted By: fatdaddyjoe
Subject: wiring dvc subs
Date Posted: February 06, 2004 at 1:38 AM
i think i know the answer to this but i am going to ask just to show my friend he is wrong..can you wire a 2 channel amp to a dvc sub? one channel to each voice coil? he has a 4 ohm dvc sub and a 2 channel amp that is not 2 ohm stable and he want to wire each channel of the amp to each voice coil so he will have the 4 ohm load he needs for the amp to work..can he do this?? thanks
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Posted By: staudio
Date Posted: February 06, 2004 at 2:18 AM
yes, but it can be dangerous for the sub. If there's any difference in the signals of the two channels it can rip the voice coils apart and destroy the sub.
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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: February 06, 2004 at 9:25 PM
Yes it can be done, the difference in the signals at lower frequencies are negligable at best. Be careful that the amp does not have 2 gain controls, if it does this will create a nightmare. There is also no harm in hooking the amp up in bridged mode to only one voice coil, provided that the coil / former can dissipate the heat generated by the input power.
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Posted By: fatdaddyjoe
Date Posted: February 06, 2004 at 11:27 PM
so a basic 2 channel amp can be run to a dvc sub one voice coil per channel ???????
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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: February 06, 2004 at 11:32 PM
Yes it can, I did this years ago and his sub is still in operation today. It is generally not recommended by most on this site. It is usually recommended to wire the dvc sub in series to make it a 8ohm driver, bridge the amp to mono to run it. If your amp is rated at 50w rms x 2 @ 4ohm and 200w x 1 @ 4ohm, it will be the same amount of power if run in stereo to each voice coil or in mono to the 8 ohm combined load.
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Posted By: Ketel22
Date Posted: February 07, 2004 at 4:06 AM
all of the out comes are dependent on the amp and sub combination. I did do this to my jlW3v2 when i bought it and within a week it went to sitting under my bed with all the other conquered subs. ------------- Quad L Handyman services
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