1 ohm or 4 ohms?

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Just run it a 4, its the same **** thing!

 

[09civic 5,000+ posts]

how you sell both amps and buy one big amp in the classifieds /thread

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

no no just run it at 1ohm and burn them up!

 

[rc10mike 10+ year member]

You should get two more amps and wire 1 amp per sub.

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

Run them at 1ohm. Get some test tones, test at all tones and see if the amps go into protect or not. If they do, rewire to 4 ohm, if not stay pimpin. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[maljr1980 10+ year member]

So if your all saying run them at 4 ohms cuz 1 ohm will burn them up, then in fact your pretty much saying box rise it totally irrelevant in real world situations, which was basically my question as to wether I should account for that in my wiring

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

No, it will depend on frequency. You technically could have a .1 rise from 1 ohm at like 30hz and you would be under 2 ohm and go into protect. No one knows what your rise curve is and so YOU have to test.

 

[lilpride 10+ year member]

Run them at 4 ohms. Box rise isn't going to change the fact that these amps put out the same power weather or not they are in 2 or 4 ohm. All 1 ohm will do is cause the amp to run out of spec. possibly damaging the amp. You will not get any more power from the amp trying to run these at 1 ohm.

 

[maljr1980 10+ year member]

Ok I was concerned about losing power if my amp was seeing 5 or 6 ohms after rise

 

[lilpride 10+ year member]

You should be more worried about damaging the amp if its run at 1 ohm when it isn't suppose to be.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

You should be more worried about damaging the amp if its run at 1 ohm when it isn't suppose to be.

The 20 watts you could lose isn't going to make a difference

 

[Phoenix Risen 10+ year member]

box rise really doesnt apply on music, when playing multiple frequencies at the same time, which is what music is, your impedance can actually drop. jacob from sundown laid everything out in a post on the SSA forums, if i can find it again ill post it up here.

long story short. dont rely on box rise in a daily system.

 

[maljr1980 10+ year member]

Thank you, just the answer I was looking for