one channel to one voice coil and the other to the other voice coil
2006-08-20 01:29:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Audio
That won't work as well as you would think, First you need to know if your amp is 2ohm or 4ohm. In most cases to run one "DVC" sub in 4ohm stable you ...take the positive of one channel and the negative of the other and run those straight to the amp. With the remaining open channels on the sub, run a jumper wire connecting the two. I know it seems weird that the jumper connects one end of the sub to the other but it makes your sub set off car alarms while the amp is running at a much cooler temp.
2006-08-26 08:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by Texas Hook 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you will have to set the out-put of the head unit to a mono setting, otherwise you will be sending two signals to the same speaker. Instead of buying a two channel amp, just buy a mono amp since your appearantly just running one sub, but if you do want to run a two channel amp, see if you can get one you can bridge, not all amps can be bridged. Thats the unfortunate thing about car stereo's, you get subs that can handle 1000 watts, but you can't get an amp to push it decent without spending $750 to $1000. You buy an amp and end up pushing it way to hard to get the sound you want, so it burns out quick. I have two 15's and two 12's in my car, I had to drop $1800 for an amp to push the 15's, and I had to look a long time to find it, everything was 250, 300 or 500 watts, and my subs take 750+ RMS, so I got a Rockford Fosgate T-20001bd, which puts out 1235 watts RMS, across dual four ohm coils, and there being two of them, I figure i am getting probably 900 RMS watts to each, I have yet to push the amp to where it is remotely hot, it gets warm, but the amps running my components and the 12's almost get to hot to touch, but it hits so god d@mn hard it is stupid, one of these days I will push it to the limit, but I don't want to blow a 15, they were $450 each, the amp I am less concerned with, I have 2 years of "anything goes wrong get a new one" insurance. I though about running two amps, one per speaker, but even a 750 watt RMS amp will be about $500. Sorry to get off track there, but your better off just getting a mono amp that is at least 40% over the max of your subs so you will never have to worry about blowing the amp.
2006-08-27 02:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could but already mentioned there is a difference between the left and right signal. You would not gain anything. You should connect the coils to make the act as one and buy the appropriate amplifier for your application.
2006-08-26 16:26:17 · answer #3 · answered by TBONEZAP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There is a left and right channel and on some songs, the bass switches from left to right and vise virsa. This would cause the subwoofer to heat up quickly and the amp would be working to hard. Wire the subwoofer in mono/bridge it.
2006-08-20 11:54:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The differences in output will cause more heat to the coils.
2006-08-20 10:51:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes as long as you don't exceed the power capabilities of the coils.
2006-08-20 08:36:46 · answer #6 · answered by ezachowski 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a kicker mono amp
2006-08-24 07:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by troy r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know
2006-08-26 16:39:27 · answer #8 · answered by jklvpd62 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋