speaker ohm settings

[dblthebass]

Originally Posted by blazee

Is the 2 or 8 ohm for each speaker or for the set?

If each speaker can be 2 or 8 ohms that means they have dual 4 ohm voice coils and require additional wiring.

If the 2 or 8 ohms is for the set, then that means each speaker is 4 ohms and they should be connected in parallel, to acheive 2ohms. This will give you the full power of your amp.

If you connect them in series and get 8ohms you will only be getting 400 watts from your amp.

it is for each speaker so if i wire the voice coils on each sub in parallel it will give me 2 ohms right? good thanks

[blazee]

Yes if each speaker is 2 or 8 ohms, then it has dual 4 ohm voice coils so connecting the voice coils in parallel will give you 2 ohms. This means that each speaker will now be 2ohms. You said your amp is 2ohm stable....is this 2ohms per channel or 2 ohms mono? if you are wanting to run the amp mono then you will have to connect the speakers together, wiring the speakers in parallel will give you 1ohm (excessive load on the amp) and series will give you 4ohms (you will only use half the potential of the amp)

I would recommend getting a 1 ohm stable amp and running it mono.

[dmbrisket 51]

dont worrie abt it, my directed was pushing 4 subs, 2 ohms each, no matter how i ran it, i was getting 1/2 ohm pushen, it was working hard, and it still works today in my new truck

[movin2stereo]

Originally Posted by dmbrisket 51

dont worrie abt it, my directed was pushing 4 subs, 2 ohms each, no matter how i ran it, i was getting 1/2 ohm pushen, it was working hard, and it still works today in my new truck

Your scareing me dmbriscket.If your ohm loads aren't right the amp will suffer a thermal breakdown.BOOM and a mushroom cloud will raise,well not that indepth. But it's not good once the amp cooks.

[dmbrisket 51]

Originally Posted by movin2stereo

Your scareing me dmbriscket.If your ohm loads aren't right the amp will suffer a thermal breakdown.BOOM and a mushroom cloud will raise,well not that indepth. But it's not good once the amp cooks.

mushroom cloud or not, it was a chevy full size, it will keep on goin after tree of four of them, but searously i was pushing (all single vc subs) 2 rockfordfosgate 10" punches, and 2 12" MTX 6000 searies comp subs, it beat louad as hell (and i flaunted it thats how they knew whos truck to break into) ran it daily for six months no problems