A little guidance please.

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Topic: A little guidance please.

Posted By: 88Marquis
Subject: A little guidance please.
Date Posted: March 02, 2004 at 9:02 PM

I just purchased (because of economic reasons) 2 kicker cvr12's subs and a kicker dx350 mono amp... The subs are dvc's now i believe if i wire the voice coils in parallel and both speakers parallel i would receive 2 ohm's. Now what i'm kinda confused about is if the amp pushes out 350w rms at 2 ohm's at one channel would it give both subs 350 watts? or is power still divided? sorry if this seems like a dumb question but i'm confused..

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Posted By: netboy
Date Posted: March 02, 2004 at 9:21 PM

If the amp pushes 350 at 2 ohms and you have the spears wired in parrell then each speaker would get 175wats each. the wattage is divided between the voice coils.

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Posted By: 88Marquis
Date Posted: March 02, 2004 at 9:38 PM

Ok thanks bud!! Greatly appreciated.

Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: March 02, 2004 at 9:39 PM

If the subs are dual 4 ohm coils and you have a dx 350 than you cant run it in 2 ohms. Your only real options are 1 ohm and 4 ohm. I know from experience that the amp wont run one ohm so you are gonna have to run 4 ohm which is gonna drop your power dramaticly. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if you are running two of those subs and one of those amps than two ohms just aint gonna happen

Posted By: 88Marquis
Date Posted: March 02, 2004 at 10:18 PM

well what i dont understand is if one sub is 4 ohms and another is 4ohms wouldnt it drop it in parallel to 2 ohms?

Posted By: 88Marquis
Date Posted: March 02, 2004 at 10:29 PM

Nevermind... I see what u mean they are DVC's so it pretty much drops each sub to 2 ohms......well this sucks for me.. looked over on the RF website sub wiring diagram...

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