Help with my first ever setup.

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Hi, I'm sorry I've read the guides and much to my dismay I believe I may have been sold the wrong amplifier for my setup.

I recently purchased 2 JL 12W3V2-D4 (4 Ohm DVC) and was told that any of the amps I was looking at, at the time, would suit the speaker configuration. Each speaker is rated at 300w RMS (and 600w Peak, not that I paid much attention to this.)

So I opted for a slightly older Kicker kx500.2, Kicker was a good brand name as far as I knew.Which is a dual channel amp that can give out a constant 250w per channel. I figured that was a safe bet so that I couldn't mess up the speakers by overpowering them.

When I got back and researched a bit more I found that the amp was rated for 2 Ohm loads at 500w but only 250w at 4 ohm. Which would mean only 125w per speaker.

I looked into wiring diagrams and thought that if I wired them in bridged parallel that I could get 2 Ohm total and still have 250w per speaker?

To be honest I'm confused by it all and have read many threads trying to figure out how I could get the most out of this setup.

Does anyone have any advice? Whenever I put it into the wiring wizard I got a 1 ohm and 4 ohm configuration but no 2 ohm confguration. But this is different to what I calculated earlier.

Thanks in advance, I know there are probably hundreds of threads like this every day but I have searched and I have read a lot but I'm still confused by this. :

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[mclerico83 5,000+ posts]

it does 500 at 4 ohms bridged. bridge the 2 channels to a mono setuo and wire your subs to 4 ohm

stereo or bridged mono output

Tri-way capable (Tri-Way crossover required)

125 watts RMS x 2 at 4 ohms

250 watts x 2 at 2 ohms

500 watts x 1 in bridged mode

 

[mclerico83 5,000+ posts]

to bridge you will connect a negative to one channel and the positive to the other channel. or you can just hook one subs in parallel to one channel and the other to the other channel up 2 u. they will get 250rms each. ps just because its name brand, for the money you prob spent, better could of been had.

 

[knightsdaze 10+ year member]

to bridge you will connect a negative to one channel and the positive to the other channel. or you can just hook one subs in parallel to one channel and the other to the other channel up 2 u. they will get 250rms each. ps just because its name brand, for the money you prob spent, better could of been had.

I agree x3.. Research, and sketch out on paper what you want to achieve BEFORE buying anything. "Building" ur system on paper before you buy will save you lot's of headaches, and "I should haves"..