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Post by two4fifteen »

what? so are you saying your sub has a single voice coil (one set of +/- terminals)? because the link you gave for woofersetc was for a dual voice coil sub, in which case there should be two sets of positive and negative terminals.
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he dont care about the coils dude.
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Darolla wrote:So they just want me to get another wire and connect the positive and negatives together on the subwoofer? I opened the box and seen a positive and negative wires only.
You only see positive and negative wires to the terminal on the box? Or on the back of the sub. If it is a dual voice coil sub then you should see a jumper wire between two of the terminals, and 2 wires from the remaining terminals going to the amp. What everyone is suggesting is that you take +- from 1 coil to a channel on the amp, and +- from the other. Don't mix the coils. On each lead there should be some sort of identifier matching it to another lead. Whatever 2 matches are a single coil, and the other 2 belong to the other. Just go +- from one coil to the amp, and +- from the other coil to the amp.
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Post by Darolla »

When I open the box to view the sub there were only TWO wires a black one and a red one and these wires were connected to the sub and the box there are no other wires
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Post by Darolla »

Ok heres a picture of what im talking about theres one negative wire and one postive wire thats connecting to the box I dont get all this coil stuff yall talking about thats all I see.
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So the sub has a single voice coil. There is a chance that on the magnet it may say what impedance the sub is. Do you have a DMM (multimeter, read current voltage impedance)? If so, you can put the DMM leads across the coil and read its impedance. So this could be the problem, if it is a single 2 ohm, then you are trying to run the amp at 1 ohm, which will shut the amp off. Can you take a pic of the sub? Front and back?
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a second to late... is there any writing on the back of that magnet?
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brent wrote:Can you take a pic of the sub? Front and back?
Alright give me a minute
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brent wrote:a second to late... is there any writing on the back of that magnet?
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Post by Darolla »

Thas front and back...

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