q's about wiring 1 ohm

[catfishnfool]

I have 3 JL 12'' W3's and a 1000d memphis 1 channel, i need to know how to wire the three subs down to 1 ohm with the amp (only 1 channel), if you can help please email me. [email protected]

[sr20de4evr]

what impedance model are the subs

[catfishnfool]

Originally Posted by catfishnfool

I have 3 JL 12'' W3's and a 1000d memphis 1 channel, i need to know how to wire the three subs down to 1 ohm with the amp (only 1 channel), if you can help please email me. [email protected]

they are dual 6ohm voice coil 300watts rms

[sr20de4evr]

then wire everything in parallel, that will net you a single 1ohm load

[catfishnfool]

how do i wire them parallel ? I do not know how to do so.

[sr20de4evr]

attach all 6 +'s to the amp's + and attach all 6 -'s to the amp's -

[catfishnfool]

6 +'s and 6 -'s?? i have three speakers where are the 6 at? isn't there three of each neg. and pos.?

[sr20de4evr]

They're dual voice coil subs, which means each sub has 2 coils, so 2 + and 2 - per sub.

[catfishnfool]

i see, so take the 6 neg wire them together, then take the 6 pos. wire them together, then put only 1 1/0 gauge wire into the pos. and neg. of the amp?

[sr20de4evr]

uh, 0awg will be WAY too big, you'll need something more like 12-14awg. And you can just daisy chain the wire from terminal to terminal, so go from the amp's + to the first speakers +, then to the other coil's +, then to the next speaker's +, etc, until you get all of them. Then do the same thing on the -.

[catfishnfool]

with seperate peices of speaker wire? or the same piece of wire connected to all the voice coils?

[sr20de4evr]

doesn't matter, it would probably be easier with seperate pieces though

[catfishnfool]

i am not going to lose power running through all those different wires? do you think that i will need a cap or extra batt. for these 1100 watts?

[sr20de4evr]

As long as you get a good connection with each of the wires then you won't lose any more power than you would with one long one

A cap won't be necessary as long as you set the amp's gain properly, if you don't set it properly then you could have problems, but if that were the case you would have problems with a cap also, so either way a cap isn't needed.

[sr20de4evr]

another way you could wire them is like this:


same result, in fact it's the same wiring scheme, you're just going about it a little differently