wiring subwoofers

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Topic: wiring subwoofers

Posted By: slatham
Subject: wiring subwoofers
Date Posted: July 27, 2007 at 2:10 AM

I have 2 kicker 12" L7 subs that are rated at 750rms watts each (375rms for each voice coil). They are DVC. They are 2 ohm subs. I was looking at your wiring diagrams for subs and found that you get a 2 ohm load if you wire the voice coils in series and the speakers in parallel. I'm going to use a kicker mono amp rated at 1500rms watts. This will work, right? Also i was wondering what kind of wires i should run from the amp to the subs and like between the voice coils and everything.

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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: July 27, 2007 at 5:52 AM

Yes, that would work just fine. Use standard 14 guage speaker wire for the wiring. Split the paired wire and use one strand to connect voice coils. A lot of people will solder the wire to the speaker terminals but I like to disconnect quickly and cleanly when I want to, so I use disconnects and crimp / solder the wire to those. Get some that fit the terminals snugly.

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