best way to wire us amps 200?
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Topic: best way to wire us amps 200?
Posted By: hvaughn
Subject: best way to wire us amps 200?
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 11:08 AM
I have a us amps 200. I want to run my front components with it. If I wire each speaker to a channel, it looks like I'm only gonna get 25 watts per channel. Is there a better way to wire this and get more power. If I bridge the amp I will get 200 watts, but at two ohms. My speakers are 4 ohms. What are my options. I thought of running the positive to each speaker and the negative to each speaker (parallel wiring) and bridge the amp. But if I do this, will I loose the ability to adjust from left to right? Please excuse my lack of knowledge on the matter, but I'm hoping someone here can help me out...
Oh yeah, my components are supposed to handle 50 rms and 100 peak. By bridging the amp, will that be too much power causing damage to the speakers?
Thanks!
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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 11:50 AM
The best way to use a stereo amp if you want stereo sound is to connect one speaker to each channel. No other option, really. ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: Blowntweeters
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 12:24 PM
run the amp stereo. there is a few reasons for this. #1 SQ is much better at 4 ohms. #2the ablity to control right to left. #3 us amps are underrated. ------------- 1974 ford pinto 4 15" punch Z power punch bd 1001 pioneer DEH-6700
Posted By: hvaughn
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 12:34 PM
damn...that sucks. So I guess I'm all gonna get out of this amp is 25 watts to each of my front speakers. Hell that's not much more than I'm getting out of my alpine head unit now.
Posted By: Blowntweeters
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 12:42 PM
thats not true your alpine H/U power ratings are peak power .most H/U's run no more than 15 watts RMS per channel. US amps are underrated they produce a bit more power than what they are rated at. i am sure that you will get just over 25watts RMS to your speakers .so you will get 40 to 50% more power to your componets. they will sound better.
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1974 ford pinto 4 15" punch Z power punch bd 1001 pioneer DEH-6700
Posted By: hvaughn
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 1:27 PM
That makes me feel a little better. Only switching to an amp b/c I wanted a little more sound (cleaner and richer) from my front speakers. Sounds like this will serve my purpose.
Thanks!
Posted By: speedwayaudio1
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 2:38 PM
And that's what you will get from the US Amp in stereo.  ------------- Big Dave
Posted By: redpeppers
Date Posted: October 02, 2005 at 10:17 PM
US kicks ass....and i am running my alpine amp 2 ohm stereo.....only because i have to because it is a 2 channel amp and i am running the 4 fronts off of it......anyways i am a hugh audio file and i think it sounds fine
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