I bought these and I want to hook up one subwoofer to one amplifier. The subwoofer has dual voice coils but each voice coil has two positive and two negative slots. Each voice coil is 2 ohms as well The sub is rated at 1000 rms and 2000 peak. The amplifier is a d class rated at 1000 rms 2000 watt peak. It has two positive and two negative slots on it. How do I wire this subwoofer into the amplifier.
The subwoofer looks like this
Voice Coil 1 Voice Coil 2
l + + - - l l + + - - l
And the amplifier is like this as well
Amplifier
l + + - - l
If someone could respond promptly I really want to get this done thanks peopleee. :)
I assume you have a box also!
Your wiring is pretty easy.
You want to wire the voice coils in parallel for a 1-ohm load at the amp.
So you connect the positive terminals on both voice coils (only one terminal each) to the positive terminals on the amp, and the negative terminals on the voice coil to the negative terminals on the amp.
As long as you never connect negative and positive together, you can't go wrong.
(Audiobahn includes extra terminals on each voice coil, and Hifonics includes extra terminals on their amps, but they all connect together internally.)
It doesn't matter if you run two wires from the amp (one to each voice coil), or one wire to the first voice coil and a short wire from the first to the second voice coil (in theory, you need thicker wire the second way).
Hope This Helps!!!
2002 Ford Focus JVC KD-A815 Sony CDX-GT410u Sony XT-100HD HD Tuner Stock speakers, no amp, no subs
If you could write that out man. It would be greatly appreciated. For example or if someone else could too it would be appreciated.
Subwoofer Voice Coils
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Amplifier Voice Coils
9 10 11 12
If you could tell me what numbers to connect to where it would be greatly appreciated thanks man. Like 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 and then 11 to 12 or something you know thanks
Without trying to confuse you, the most straight-forward is:
1 to 9
5 to 10
3 to 11
7 to 12
2, 4, 6, and 8 unused.
Now it might look neater and would work the same way to do
9 to 1
2 to 5
11 to 3
4 to 8
Also the following pairs are essentially one terminal connected together:
1 and 2
3 and 4
5 and 6
7 and 8
9 and 10
11 and 12.
For a diagram, you are doing this:
Post back if that wasn't clear.
I've been having alot of problems because theres just too much going on with the way I set up the box. I bought 4 amplifiers and 4 of the subs. Then I enclosed the amps under plexglass and inverted the subs in a box really pressed for space. It sounded alright but I still have a few problems. Is there any way to message someone or something cause I wired the box outside the car just to test it and adjust the amps and I spent so much time on it I'm just giving up for a few weeks. But just respond when you see this I do appreciate it man.
That's a pretty massive system - I don't really have any way to do messaging, but the general concepts are the same, you are just doing it 4 times.
One thing to keep in mind, though - a single 1000W amplifier puts a pretty good load on a vehicle's electrical system - 4kW is something else altogether.
Do you have the electrical upgraded to cover this?
(I.e. you system would draw about 370 amperes at clipping, and about 120A average at near full power - that's more than a standard HO alternator without trying to run the cars electrical even.)
