explain dual voice coil on single speaker to me

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

I am thinking about an Alpine Type S 10 inch sub. I see that it has a dual voice coil on it....yet its a single speaker. its rated at 2 ohms and 2 ohms. This dual voice coil stuff is all new to me.

So...if I were to hook this up to a single mono sub....does that mean that I'd either hook it up in parallel (positive terminal on vc to posive terminal on vc to positive output on sub amp). Would that then give me 1 ohm? Or series (positive terminal to negative term on other coil, etc) for 4 ohms?

Would my Profile mono 600 msx sub (410 W @ 2 ohms 300@4 ohm) run this sub? I dont think this amp is 1 ohm stable so I'd almost have to run it at 4 ohms unless there is a way to run a dual voice coil at 2 ohms.

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[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

youve got it right. and yeah youll want to run that amp bridged @ 4 ohms.

 

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

Mono amp. One output. Cant bridge it. Is there any way to wire it to be 2 ohm?

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Nope. Can't wire a DVC 2ohm/coil to 2ohm.

You'd have to get the 4ohm DVC model (if they offer one)

 

[MrSector9 10+ year member]

No there is not. You owudl need to get a DVC 4ohm style to go to 2 ohms OR a different amp

 

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

I;d probably be ok even at 4 ohm since the speaker is rated at 300 rms....and my amp should put out 300 rms @ 4 ohm.

 

[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

lol, my bad i read it wrong. I coulda sworn i saw 410 x 2.. i should probably wear my contacts. youll just have to run it at 4 ohms.