amp and sub wiring
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Topic: amp and sub wiring
Posted By: sheriff
Subject: amp and sub wiring
Date Posted: November 09, 2002 at 1:24 PM
First question: Is bazooka amps any good? Second question: I have four 8ohm tens and was wondering how I would wire them to make them efficient for an amp.(parallel?) I was also wondering what amp is recomended/2-channel, etc.
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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: November 09, 2002 at 1:42 PM
Use a 2 channel amp ( or a mono amp wired to 2 ohms ) . Wire the 4- 8" so that two are in parallel ( to make 4 ohms ) and wire the other two the same. Now you have 2 sets of 4 ohm wires ... now you can wire it again in paralle to a 2 ohm load. If you try to wire them all in parallel, you will end up with a 1 ohm load.
------------- Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: JellyNutz
Date Posted: November 11, 2002 at 12:27 AM
Some of you people out there seem to be confused on your series/parallel wiring knowledge. Four 8 Ohm subs all wired in parallel will present you with a 2 Ohm load, not 1 Ohm. You are thinking of four 4 Ohm subs. Personally, I'd either wire all of them in parallel and use a class D amplifier that is stable at 2 Ohms, or wire 2 pairs in parallel (2 sets of 2 subs wired in parallel), that way you end up with 2 4 Ohm loads, which would be great with a standard 4 channel amp. Bridge the 4 channels on the amp to 2, then each bridged channel would be putting out its maximum output @ 4 ohms. If you wire your subs either of these 2 ways with the according amplifier you will be using their power most effciently.
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