Help with wattage and ohms please!

[mahosky85 10+ year member]

I checked the impedance off the box and got a ready of 2 ohms....?

 

[sacsking916 5,000+ posts]

I checked the impedance off the box and got a ready of 2 ohms....?

i honestly dont think that amp is 2ohm mono stable.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

i honestly dont think that amp is 2ohm mono stable.

It's not. Op if the terminals are reading 2 ohms then either that's not a DVC 2 ohm sub or only one of the coils is connected.

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

I would atleast invest in a better amp OP cuz that amp will fry with a 2 ohm load bridged on it...

 

[mahosky85 10+ year member]

Well i'm not really sure what the sub is i guess. When i previously said 2 ohm i just was reading what it said on the box that the sub and enclosure came in... I guess the actually sub could be 4 ohm, wired to 2 ohm?

My DMM is this below, i took the speakers wires out and turned the setting to 1k ohm and turned the ohm adjuster button all the way to the left, it showed 2 ohms at that, when i turned it to the right it still showed like 1.5 ohms...

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[vaiboy 10+ year member]

The L3 is available in DVC 2Ω and DVC 4Ω, the sub in the enclosure is probably a DVC 4Ω wired in parallel. The only safe way to use that sub with your amp would be to rewire the coils in series for an 8Ω load. If the amp ratings from Sony are correct you will be feeding the sub 370 watts, so when you set the gains the output voltage should be 54.4 VAC.

 

[mahosky85 10+ year member]

Can't i just wire it to one channel, and forget the mono deal?

BTW Anyone think it's worth getting my Concept CC-D1200 amp fixed and if so how much would that cost, and i wouldn't know where to take it to get fixed?

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Wire each coil to it's own channel...

 

[vaiboy 10+ year member]

Wiring it to a single channel will only get you 200 watts, it's really not that hard to rewire.

 

[mahosky85 10+ year member]

So if i wire each coil to its own channel i will get ______? watts

or if i internally wire it to 8 ohms i will get 380 watts?

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Wiring each soil to its own channel, or paralleling the coils and running the amp mono will create the same wattage from the amplifier. Bridging an amp simply means halving the mono load between each channel. But wiring each coil separately to its own channel means having to deal with summing the signal to mono pre-amplifier to avoid stereo separation working the coils against each other.

 

[mahosky85 10+ year member]

Just got done wiring it for an 8ohm load internally. Sounds great! Thanks so much for all your guys help!!!

 

[sacsking916 5,000+ posts]

Your very welcome sir. Glad you like it.