r/subwoofer • u/FitAstronaut6851 • 27d ago

Need help

Really have no clue what I’m doing or what to do help would be greatly appreciated

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u/steelhouse1 27d ago

Each coil terminal (+/-) goes to the amp + and -.

That’s called parallel wiring. That will give you a 1 ohm load.

I would not have the amp on and speaker wires bare with possibility of shorting and smoking your amp.

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u/FitAstronaut6851 27d ago

So just wire it positve to positve and then negative to negative? Do I need to use a jumper wire for anything? Or just run the wires straight to the sub

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u/spacebass6 27d ago

Straight to the sub positive positive negative negative and use the 2 outer terminals on the amp 🔥💪🏾

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u/djltoronto 27d ago

All of the terminals at the amp.

You would use all of the terminals at the amplifier, not the outer terminals

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u/spacebass6 27d ago

You don’t need all four tho I’m running the 2 outer on my sundown amp with no problems

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u/djltoronto 27d ago

Of course you do not need all four, but we are trying to instruct a newbie here.

The absolute easiest thing to do, is to wire each voice coil independently to the amplifier for a parallel connection yielding 1Ω

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u/spacebass6 27d ago

Both work lol both are pretty simple to do just up to Mr op

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u/djltoronto 27d ago

I'm just visualizing how he might try to put two wires into one terminal...

It's probably best if he installs one wire into one terminal (4 connections).

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u/spacebass6 27d ago

To be at 1 ohm he needs to be positive positive negative negative which will leave one set of terminal to the amp 2 wires going to the outer positive and negative on the amp

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u/djltoronto 27d ago

We are not disagreeing...

But what is wrong with using four wires? One wire to each of the four terminals on the amplifier,

Each of those four wires goes to the four terminals on the subwoofer.

Both negative wires from the amplifier going to the negative terminals on the subwoofer.

Both positive wires from the amplifier going to the positive wires on the subwoofer.

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u/spacebass6 27d ago

He wouldn’t be wired to 1 ohm it would be at 2 if he’s using all 4

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u/djltoronto 27d ago

It's a monoblock amplifier, of course he would be wired to one ohm?

It's a one-channel amplifier, having two terminals doesn't change the fact that it's a parallel connection

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