by two4fifteen » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:38 am
i was under the impression that a mono amp, with two sets of speaker inputs, has them wired in parallel internally. that way two SVC 4 ohm subs can be connected to each terminal, resulting in a single 2 ohm load for the amp. basically for ease of wiring.
in your case, since you have dual voice coil 4 ohm subs, if they are wired in parallel and connected to each terminal, they would each present a 2 ohm load each, resulting in a final 1 ohm load for the amp. and im not so sure that amp can handle a 1 ohm load.
if you wire each sub in series, for an 8 ohm load each, and connect each to the amp, you should be giving each roughly 400w rms, since that amp is ratd at 787w rms @ 4 ohm. this would be the same as the illustartion brent gave, except that shows wiring each 8 ohm load in parallel before the amp and presenting a single 4 ohm load to one set of terminals.
i was under the impression that a mono amp, with two sets of speaker inputs, has them wired in parallel internally. that way two SVC 4 ohm subs can be connected to each terminal, resulting in a single 2 ohm load for the amp. basically for ease of wiring.
in your case, since you have dual voice coil 4 ohm subs, if they are wired in parallel and connected to each terminal, they would each present a 2 ohm load each, resulting in a final 1 ohm load for the amp. and im not so sure that amp can handle a 1 ohm load.
if you wire each sub in series, for an 8 ohm load each, and connect each to the amp, you should be giving each roughly 400w rms, since that amp is ratd at 787w rms @ 4 ohm. this would be the same as the illustartion brent gave, except that shows wiring each 8 ohm load in parallel before the amp and presenting a single 4 ohm load to one set of terminals.