Can I wire a DVC 4 ohm like this?

[Reggiewolf 10+ year member]

I have a 2 ch amp that is 480W RMS x1 bridged at 4ohm and it cannot be bridged with a 2 ohm load. So I was wondering if this would work. Here is a diagram. The speaker is rated at 600w RMS

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[wlmrs 10+ year member]

If you do that your amp fry!!!

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

That is the exact same thing was wiring the coils in parallel. It will result in a final load of 2ohms.

You will need to either run the amplifier into an 8ohm load (coils in series), or buy a different amp or different sub.

 

[PESteele 10+ year member]

couldnt you wire a coil to each channel

 

[Reggiewolf 10+ year member]

ok would this work?

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Yes.

But it would be much more simple to just wire the coils in series and bridge the amplifier, as I already suggested.

Exact same power output both ways. Just less wiring to the amplifier by wiring the coils in series.

 

[Reggiewolf 10+ year member]

If my amp is rated at 480x1 @ 4 ohm RMS would it have the same power output if It is bridged at 8ohms?

 

[Reggiewolf 10+ year member]

???

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

No, it would output 240w.

Yes, that's probably less power than you were wanting. But your subwoofer and amplifier simply aren't compatible. You need either an amplifier stable to 2ohms, or a single subwoofer with dual 2ohm voice coils.