8 amps to one woffer?

[TheyDontWant 10+ year member]

it could work.

but its pointless unless the subwoofer is 0.1ohm voice coil or something.

which I highly doubt it is.

paralleling the amps won't increase the power output, it will increase the minimum impedance you can run.

 

[aphinney 10+ year member]

AGREED with this guy...^^

 

[loudaccent 10+ year member]

it is possable. just need to contact the right ppl, i for got his name but he is in extream 2 with 2 RE mt and i think 10 sound stream 6500 doing a 176.00 he has a chevy s10 cyclone red

 

[Gebrochen 10+ year member]

it could work.
but its pointless unless the subwoofer is 0.1ohm voice coil or something.

which I highly doubt it is.

paralleling the amps won't increase the power output, it will increase the minimum impedance you can run.

I've never seen it done, but logically I can't see why it wouldn't work, so I'd agree with this. Mainly the last sentence there is what sounds right. My thinking is that it's the same as wiring batteries in parallel to get more amps to them (but not voltage).

Like he said, you'd have to have a sub running 1/8 below the ohm rating of the amps.... .. and if one or more amps cut out, the load would lay on the ones that were running and you'd have a chain reaction of them all going out unless they went into protect.

Try running a sub below rated ohms on 2 cheap amps and tell us what happens .. probably has to be separate amps though and not just 2 channels, individual power rails at least.

 

[sweetkicks]

im not looking to increase the power that i already have in these 8 amps, just want to get the power to the sub safely. now if i understand what u are all saying, if i have say a 4 ohm woofer, each amp will see .5 ohms before your imp rise...but power of all 8 amps will not be increased which isnt the reason i am doin this. just want to get the power out of each amp to the sub...tell me if im reading this wrong....and yes i am goin to try this with two cheap amps just in case of destruction lol

 

[I Like Waffle]

i thought hooking pos to pos was a no go unless you use a diode or something? But i dont know too much about it. Id like to hear how it works though

 

[TheyDontWant 10+ year member]

im not looking to increase the power that i already have in these 8 amps, just want to get the power to the sub safely. now if i understand what u are all saying, if i have say a 4 ohm woofer, each amp will see .5 ohms before your imp rise...but power of all 8 amps will not be increased which isnt the reason i am doin this. just want to get the power out of each amp to the sub...tell me if im reading this wrong....and yes i am goin to try this with two cheap amps just in case of destruction lol

no, if you have a 4 ohm woofer, each amp will "see" 32ohms...

the total output power into the 4 ohm woofer will be the same as running a single amp, maybe a tad more due to now having a better powersupply, but thats it.

what impedance is the sub?

if its not less than the amplifiers are rated for, then its completely pointless and will gain you nothing.