Bridging a sub to 1ohm

[klepto 10+ year member]

Real simple logistics question here. I need to bridge my Mag 12 to 1 ohm and i was wondering which is the best way to go about it. I know i need to run (+) from the amp to (+) on the driver, then bridge that (+) on the driver to the other (+) coil on the driver...and so on for the (-).

Whats the cleanest way to go about doing this. It seems kind of jankey to try to ram 2 runs of 10 guage speaker wire into the terminals of the sub and have some freys of wire kind of hanging out. I did this for a test run then covered the terminals in electrical tape to prevent a short. How did you guys go about doing this a cleaner way. Just smaller speaker wire?

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[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

do you care how it looks?

 

[klepto 10+ year member]

Well i just want to see if there are any better ways of doing it then the way i did it. Im anal. I had to wrap electrical tape around the terminals cuz some wire was freyed out...i hate that...

 

[acold7dusta 10+ year member]

link the positive of one coil to the positive of the other coil (same for neg.) and then you got one line of speaker wire goin to the amp

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

you don't bridge subs, you bridge amps.

I would just shave off a bit of the wire diameter at the terminal so they'll fit neatly. You wouldn't want to do that to the entire length of the wire, but at that point, where there's essentially no length there won't be any effect in the properties of the wire. Might also be a good idea to use 12ga from coil to coil.

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

Strip the wire in the middle and at the end //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif