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<blockquote data-quote="Search" data-source="post: 7292628" data-attributes="member: 632334">I am new to this and am learning as I go. Here is where I am.Got my hands on one of Kickers Loaded Enclosure boxes for CVRs. Got two 12&quot; Kicker CVRs after hearing they were a good bang for the buck.The box is made to where you wire each sub to one terminal. So I will only have one wire running to the amp.Each sub is wired in parallel. According to the manual if I wire a dual voice coil sub in parallel it will be 1 ohms.So.. I went out and bought a Kicker DX 1000.1 which will be here tomorrow (Thursday) night via UPS. It&#039;s rated at 1000 watts at 1 ohm on the website. I was thinking, great, now I can hit maximum RMS at each sub and my amp will be safe.Well.... found out tonight that if I have TWO subs at 1 ohm each it will be a combined load of .5 ohms on the amp. Ok, I&#039;m not an electrical engineer but I can tell this isn&#039;t going to work.So I realized if I wired my sub in series (4 ohms each), there will be a 2 ohm load on my amp. Jump back to google and a few websites say this amp does 500 watts at 2 ohms. So I wasted my money on the amp.Well I checked Kickers website, and checked their online manual.. This amp is rated there at 1000 watts at 2 ohms. So is this a mistake on some retailers part, or am I missing something?From what I can gather, based on Kickers information (which is probably right), if I re-wire my subs in series, hook my amp up, and pull my multi-meter out and adjust the gain so I&#039;m getting 800 watts out of it (400 to each sub), I will be exactly where I need to be.Correct?I am sure I just answered my own question, but I can&#039;t afford to screw anything up so I&#039;m just double checking that everything is done right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Search, post: 7292628, member: 632334"] I am new to this and am learning as I go. Here is where I am. Got my hands on one of Kickers Loaded Enclosure boxes for CVRs. Got two 12" Kicker CVRs after hearing they were a good bang for the buck. The box is made to where you wire each sub to one terminal. So I will only have one wire running to the amp. Each sub is wired in parallel. According to the manual if I wire a dual voice coil sub in parallel it will be 1 ohms. So.. I went out and bought a Kicker DX 1000.1 which will be here tomorrow (Thursday) night via UPS. It's rated at 1000 watts at 1 ohm on the website. I was thinking, great, now I can hit maximum RMS at each sub and my amp will be safe. Well.... found out tonight that if I have TWO subs at 1 ohm each it will be a combined load of .5 ohms on the amp. Ok, I'm not an electrical engineer but I can tell this isn't going to work. So I realized if I wired my sub in series (4 ohms each), there will be a 2 ohm load on my amp. Jump back to google and a few websites say this amp does 500 watts at 2 ohms. So I wasted my money on the amp. Well I checked Kickers website, and checked their online manual.. This amp is rated there at 1000 watts at 2 ohms. So is this a mistake on some retailers part, or am I missing something? From what I can gather, based on Kickers information (which is probably right), if I re-wire my subs in series, hook my amp up, and pull my multi-meter out and adjust the gain so I'm getting 800 watts out of it (400 to each sub), I will be exactly where I need to be. Correct? I am sure I just answered my own question, but I can't afford to screw anything up so I'm just double checking that everything is done right. [/QUOTE]

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