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[Professor Fate 10+ year member]

I have an amp that runs 1200 watts rms at 1 ohm. My speakers are suposed to have 1200 watts rms at 2 ohms. My speaker has 2 voice coils. I have heard you can run dvc speakers at 1, 2, or 4 ohms just by wiring differantly, and dropping your ohms, say on a 4 ohm amp will double its power. So does it go the same thing when you up the ohms? loose power? One of my questions are if I can wire my speaker to run at 2 ohms of my one ohm amp, will it cut the amps power in half to only 600 rms? Second, how do I wire my speaker to run at 1, 2, or 4 ohms. And third, will running my Cerwin Vega Stroker 15d2 at 1 ohm hurt it?

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[themainman 10+ year member]

http://paudio.tripod.com/subwooferwiring.html

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

You can only wire a sub to 1 ohm if it has dual VC. which will not hurt the speaker unless it implicitly says KEEP AT 2 OHMS.

Upping ohms will generally send less power to the speaker.

So wire the sub in paralell, and if it has dual 2 ohm coils youll get a one ohm load. the amp will love that. Make sure you set the gains low, and work up from there.