2 ohm wiring setup. We show you how to wire two 8 inch subwoofers with dual 2 ohm voice coils to create an 8 ohm and 2 ohm load. The following diagrams are the most popular wiring configurations. Quality mobile video 104231 views. The most common question we are asked her.
Option 1 parallelparallel 05 ohm load voice coils wired in parallel speakers wired in parallel recommended amplifier. Please leave your comments and. Dual voice coil dvc wiring tutorial. Learn how to wire two dual 2 ohm car subwoofers to a 2 ohm final impedance using the series parallel wiring method.
4 ohm mono is equivalent to 2 ohm stereo. Regarding the power i would say try it and see what you think as how it sounds etc will depend on your subwoofer box too. The most common question we are asked here at sonic. They show a typical single channel wiring scheme.
Option 2 seriesparallel 2 ohm load voice coils wired in series speakers wired in parallel recommended amplifier. Indeed if you had a 1 ohm load on that kenwood it is possible you have fried the. Stable at 1 2 ohm mono. Stable at 2 or 1 ohm mono.
Sadly if you wire the diamond subs in other ways they either will be too low of a load for the amp 1 2 ohm or cant develop full power wired as 2 8 ohm speakers. Two 2 ohm dual voice coil dvc speakers. Subwoofer wiring diagrams for 1 ohm 2 ohm 4 ohm and 6 ohm dual voice coil subwoofers and for 4 ohm and 8 ohm single voice coil subwoofers. If you have your speakers wired for 2 ohms they must be in series to the amp 4 ohms or connected to the amp in stereo one sub to each channel if you have your speakers wired for 2 ohms and then they are in parallel to the amp in mono you have created a 1 ohm load which the amp will definately not handle.
With multi driver sub systems which often feature dual voice coils dvc on each driver the level of wiring complexity can be enough to turn off even the most adventurous of car audio do it yourselfers. Please note that when wiring. We also show you how to check your subwoofer impedance. How to wire your subwoofer dual voice coil 2 ohm 1 ohm parallel vs 4 ohm series configurations duration.