Advice with new Kicker sub and amp

[SRT8 10+ year member]

Just installing a Kicker dx250.1 mono amp and kicker 10c104 sub for a little low end. The amp has two sets of + and two - for speaker outs. I have the one 4 ohm sub. The amp puts out 250W at 2 ohm, or 140 at 4 ohm. How the hell do I wire this up for most power to the sub, and why is there two sets of speaker outs from the mono amp? I'm sort of stuck on the install while I figure this out.

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[splwj47 10+ year member]

is the sub a single vc or dual vc? the amp has two sets of + and - just for easy install they are parralled internally.

 

[myjaja 10+ year member]

You can't, that's a single 4 ohm sub, unless you add another 4 ohm sub. It has two sets on the amp so you dont have to cramp multiple wires if you have more than one sub. It's going to run at 4 ohms, but that's all you need because a kicker comp is 150 watts rms.

 

[SRT8 10+ year member]

Thanks for the quick help!! Yes, it's svc. I see on kickers site that they say 4 ohm mono=2 ohm stereo. So if I run both pos and neg sets of speaker outs to the single sub, that will be 2 ohm for the amp, but 2 ohm for the sub also. Which I don't want, cuz the sub is 4 ohm, correct? I know, pretty rookie question!

 

[dappa5 10+ year member]

no sub is 4 ohm always (untill it breaks) the amp will only put out power based on what ohm load it is "seeing" in this case 4 ohm the two sets are just for ease of install

 

[SRT8 10+ year member]

Thanks. Wow, I couldn't concentrate on what you wrote when all I could look at was your avatar!