I just bought this subwoofer
http://www.bigdogaudio.de/subwoofer-chassis/subwoofer-3846-cm-chassis/preisklasse-000-250/crunch-gp15d4-ground-pounder.html
but it is too powerful for my KAC8101D Mono class 1000 watt Kenwood amplifier. Is it my wiring or do I need a stronger amp. As you can see the speaker has six wire terminals on it 4 for speaker wire and 2 for the led which lights up.The speaker is suppose to be 700 watts RMS and 1400peak. Amp plays and then powers out, and then cuts in and out.
How should I wire the speaker I have never seen one with this many terminals. I currently have all of the positive terminals running on one wire to the positive terminal on the box, and all negative terminals running on one wire to the negative terminal on the box, and all terminals are wired correctly to there corresponding terminals on the amp.
2007-03-07 13:51:14 · 4 answers · asked by pbell85 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Audio
Wire it like this http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j230/sparky3489/PARALLEL-SERIES.jpg and you'll be fine.
2007-03-07 14:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should wire it into the garbage if you ask me. Did you notice the strange language? How are people supposed to help if they can't read german? All there is to setup a sub is to wire each of it's voice coils to the amp, I think your sub has 2 voice coils. If you have a 2 channel amp wire one to a channel. With a mono amp just wire them series or parallel or a mix of the two to get the impedence you want.
2007-03-07 21:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Wastedmilkman61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like it may have four voice coils. You have them all connected in parallel which is allowing your amp to see only about one ohm, overloading the amp and causing the protection circuit to cut it off. Try it using only one set of terminals.
Maybe then try a second set of terminals. I would use the ones opposite the first set.
2007-03-07 22:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by Aldo the Apache 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think u fell for a scam deal. subs like that u never hear about and when u do they look kool and usually sound like SH**. i woulda stayed away from that especially cuz of the illuminating light thing. however, ur amp should run it fine. but its prob not the amp, its prob just the woofer itself.
2007-03-08 10:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by harley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋