can i wire just 1 coil on my sub?

[mcv 10+ year member]

my sub has two 4 ohm coils and my amp can only see a 4 ohm load, how can i wire it?

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[neonak 10+ year member]

you can even wire a painting to an amp.. it wont work but you can wire it ! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

not a clue, i think you can but you need to wire it specially, you should be able to find a correct wiring sceme at the team rockford site. Caraudio.com also has the scematics somewhere (search)

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

If you use only 1 coil you can only put 1/2 as much power into the sub. You also risk voiding the warantee, since almost all mfgr's say don't do it.

You can always wire the coils in series... that'll also cut the power in half but it's perfectly safe. And some amps will run 2 ohms even tho they don't spec it.

 

[mcv 10+ year member]

ok, the problem is this: i have a PPI amp that is 75W per channel, and is bridgeable for 300W at 4 ohms. my sub is an eDK12 double 4 ohm coils, so how can i get the most out of my amp? if i wire both bobins in series, i´ll get 8 ohms, and in parallel 2 ohms. how do i feed 4 ohms to my bridged amp?

 

[abcdefg 10+ year member]

Originally posted by mcv ok, the problem is this: i have a PPI amp that is 75W per channel, and is bridgeable for 300W at 4 ohms. my sub is an eDK12 double 4 ohm coils, so how can i get the most out of my amp? if i wire both bobins in series, i´ll get 8 ohms, and in parallel 2 ohms. how do i feed 4 ohms to my bridged amp?

you cant wire it to 4ohms, the only way u can wire it is to 8 and 2ohms but ur amp is only 4ohm stable bridged u can only run the sub at 8ohms, so u have to get a diff amp if u wanna run it at 2ohms