Wiring subs

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Topic: Wiring subs

Posted By: sbrock
Subject: Wiring subs
Date Posted: April 19, 2004 at 12:32 PM

I am going to hook up three dual 4 ohm voice coil subs to a mono block 1ohm stable amp. And what I was wonder is if you wire the first two subs in series than the third in parallel than wire all three together in parallel dont this equal 1.3ohm because 8 and 8 is 4 and 4 and 2 is 1.3 if so I was wonder if it is ok to run the subs this way and if not why. Hopefully some one with more knowledge than me on this can help because if not Im just going to run them all in series than parallel to get 2.6 ohm. Any advice will help.

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Posted By: kickerstang
Date Posted: April 19, 2004 at 12:39 PM

all of your subs have to be wired the same. you cannot reach a 1 ohm load with that setup. you need SVC 4 ohm subs to get a 1.3 load, see if you can trade them in for the SVC model

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Posted By: kiteman
Date Posted: April 19, 2004 at 12:52 PM

If you hook up all the in series you will reach 2.7 You would need 3 2ohm woofers.