How bad is this?

[teamquakecelica 10+ year member]

wire the sub in series to make it 8ohm and bridge the 2 channels on the amp..... thats the RIGHT way to do it.. not the Half A$$ed "shouldn't cause a problem" way

 

[Americanstrat21 10+ year member]

^^ Seconded.. bridge it at 8 ohms ... what you are doing is not a good idea.

 

[johndoe1234 10+ year member]

Thanks ill pull it out today and re-wire it....

About how much power would that amp put out at 8ohms???

 

[mile098 10+ year member]

leave it, theres nothing wrong with running 1 channel per coil. the difference in signal is minimum. someone said earlier to set the mono signal on your sub out, thats good advice. late nite tip gets pretty low, prlly heated up the coils a lot. no worries youre fine

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

there should be a little deal by the channels on the amp that says "bridged" and it will have the positive of one channel being connected to the neg. of the other channel. this is bridging the amp into 1 channel. this gives you all of the power to one channel.. then you can wire your sub down and run it on the bridged channel of the amp.

 

[johndoe1234 10+ year member]

Thanks for all the help

 

[jcolley 10+ year member]

its not stable at 2 ohms //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gifi found that out after i bought it

just because its not stable at 2 ohms doesnt meant that you cant run it at 8. that should give you the same output, in some case a little more since the greater load is easier on the amp.

 

[Ineed$ 10+ year member]

smells good to me

 

[dragon.breath 10+ year member]

i have heard that running a dvc sub on 2 channels is bad BUT i ran 2 identical amps on 1 sub daily for over a year with no problems so idk.

 

[Safe_Cracker 10+ year member]

Use a test tone and DMM, adjust the voltage on each channel separately and finally make sure it is a mono signal, no biggie... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Polo..