How many WATTS can my subs take?

[HondaCivic4358]

I have 3 10" MTX Blue Thunder subs. I am looking for a nice amp but dont want to blow my subs out. Does anyone know about how many WATTS these 3 10's can take?

[GScivic7]

it should say somewhere on the magnets, or the box they came in, or in the manual they came with. or you can use www.google.com and find out for yourself

[Perrycmc]

If you look on the back of the subs They should list an Ohm Loadage, like 4 ohms, 6 ohms, or 8 ohms, Mostlikely they will be 6 or 8, What you need to do is get your ohm loadage to a stable load, for three subs i believe it is like 1.80 or something near that. If you know how to bridge the subs correctly on the amp,you should be able to get near this load, you also need to take into consideration if you need a two channel or a 4 channel, possibly a mono (but prolly not.) Your first step will be to get the ohm loadage off the magnets, and personally I recommend that if you do not feel comfortable about getting a stable load pay a professional to do it. If you do it the wrong way you could cease all of your subs by over powering them. Hope this helps a little. Perry CMC

[GScivic7]

i think these subs are 4 ohm subs, you will rarely see an 8 ohm car audio sub, because it just isn't efficient and the only 6 ohm subs i ever see are like JL's and Audiobahns. I suggest you find a D class mono amp that is stable down to 1 ohm if you wanna power all three. Don't try it with a regular 2 or 4 channel amp, you'll end up clipping the signal and blowing your voice coils.

I think that those blue thunders, are all SVC too, so if you wire all three in parallel you'll have like a 1.33333 ohm load i think and I don't think there is a 2 or 4 channel amp that can handle that kind of load. Look at the JBL 1200.1D at ikesound.com, that'll probably be your best bet and most cost efficient amp to buy.

And it isn't overpowering the speakers that's going to hurt them, it's going to be the amp clipping the signal. Imagine, your voicecoils are meant to receive a nice smooth signal that is shaped like a sine curve, now imagine that same signal, but with right angles everywhere instead of one nice long curve, your voicecoils aren't going to like it, and won't take it either

BTW, it is always better to overpower your subs, than to underpower them. at least with over powering your subs, you can turn the gain down on the amp, and keep the bass boost off, and keep the bass low on the headunit and keep the low frequency turned down too

[GSteg]

thermally, underpowering is better than overpowering.

there are MANY 8ohm drivers out there, just for reference.