Confused with wiring 3 subs

[scoilib 10+ year member]

Y'all have been very helpful throughout the posts. I have 3 JL Audio 8W3 DVC 4ohm. I am wiring them to a 2.66 ohm load. I looked at their web site and saw the wiring diagram and got confused because it requires each sub to have the positive and negative coming from the amp. Do I run one power cable into the box and splice it to each sub or three separate wires from the amp, one to each sub? Thanks in advance for your help.

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[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by scoilib Y'all have been very helpful throughout the posts. I have 3 JL Audio 8W3 DVC 4ohm. I am wiring them to a 2.66 ohm load. I looked at their web site and saw the wiring diagram and got confused because it requires each sub to have the positive and negative coming from the amp. Do I run one power cable into the box and splice it to each sub or three separate wires from the amp, one to each sub? Thanks in advance for your help.

If you have already seen the wiring diagram I would say this......run the wire to look exactly the same way it does on there! Most of the time they are pretty straight forward in that.

 

[scoilib 10+ year member]

The diagram shows one wire from the amp the spliced. What is the best way to splice wires when dealing with subs?

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

Ok so you are running from + on amp to + on one sub then + on the next and + again on the last......at the point at each sub where you are connecting them......(the terminal) put two wires in! That simple... one comes either from the amp or the previous sub and the other goes to the next sub's + terminal... do the same for the - side

 

[scoilib 10+ year member]

Thanks for your help. That is easy enough, I guess I was looking for a difficult solution.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by scoilib Thanks for your help. That is easy enough, I guess I was looking for a difficult solution.

Anytime you are looking at something that could be failry complex there is always the KISS method........ (Keep It Simple Stupid) LOL...... Sorry military days comming out in me....but it is true! Keep it simple as possible and just look at it without so much analyzation and it comes to you faster quite often.