Dual voice coil...

[Bing 10+ year member]

Ok, a while back I bought two Kicker comp 10's, and was a little stumped about there being two post on both the negitive and the positive sides of the subs(the shop I bought them form wasn't too helpful) A guy explained to me the other day theres more then one post there because they are dual voice coil and that I need to wire them together. So I pulled them out of the box and wired the negitive post that wasn't being used to the positive post that wasn't being used. Is this the correct way? I don't want to hook them back up and kill something. Thanks for any help. He said if I did this it will make my subs perform all around better...Is this also true? I thought they should be a little louder.

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[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

http://jlaudio.com/tutorials/wiring/index.html#2dvcsp

i think u did that

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

the one below it is also another way to wire ur 2 subs

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

kindly go up to the top of this forum, and check out the voice coil wiring option thread.

 

[Bing 10+ year member]

OK I got those two options...But I see nothing on there abnout 8 ohms...inwhich both of my subs are. I want to get them as loud as they can be without hurting them or my amp(which is a kicker kx200.2

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

the same principle applies...if you have dual 8 ohm SVCs, series wire them to 16 ohms, or parallel them to 4 ohms.

 

[bluevilevo8 10+ year member]

I think you mean series wire them to 8ohms.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

you're right...for some reason I thought he said they were SVCs...didn't bother to look at the title... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif i'm losing my mind!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Bing 10+ year member]

Well, I found out my subs arn't DVC, and that i'm going to need to run the two positives from each sub together into one of the pos on the amp and then the same with the neg. and connecting both the pos together on the amp with little pieces of wire then doing the same for the neg. and I guess this will give me 4 ohms? And make my subs run the best that they can...

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

then in that case you're right //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif